Is there any way I can set time restrictions for certain websites? I want to set a time limit of two hours a day for facebook. I think a lot of time at my home is lost to facebook. After the time is up, anyone who tries to visit the website should see a message saying "time expired."
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There are lots and lots and lots of different filtering programs—most, understandably, concerned with blocking adult content, and many of which cost some chunk of money.
SafeSquid appears to do what you want (amongst other things), and they have a free version for 3 users or less. I have no idea how easy or difficult it is to set up.
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If you use Google Chrome, I strongly recommend the StayFocusd extension. It's proven to be extremely useful for me (mainly as a productivity tool). As with any Chrome extension, it takes a second to install and 30 seconds to configure the options - choose how much time you want to allow yourself to be on Facebook and other sites that you class as time-wasting.
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A great tool that I would recomend using is Rescue Time (http://www.rescuetime.com) It will track not just web sites but everything you do on the computer and give you a numerical values of how productive you are. It wont spacificly restrict you from doing something or going somewhere but i will remind you that you are wasting time and need to get back to work. their is also a focuse feature that helps you remove distractions for short periods of time. it will also give you very detaild reports on where you are being productive and where you are not over a time line.
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If you're a Firefox user, consider LeechBlock. I haven't used it myself, but Pollyanna seems to think it's okay.
