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Students at a British university are campaigning against the use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook on university computers because they cannot get their work done.
Final-year students at Bournemouth University have complained that the computers were being monopolised by people spending too much time on the sites.
The students' union has now decided to display polite notices asking people to consider others and marking certain computers for academic use only.
The university has no restrictions on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
A university spokesman said, "The use of computers by students to access Facebook, MySpace, YouTube etc is not forbidden or restricted. In reality Facebook is now often used as collaborative tool for students and sometimes lecturers to share course-related information. It is therefore difficult to assess whether Facebook is used for pure social reasons or not.
"Having said that, we do support the Student Union's forthcoming campaign to request that students using Facebook and other social network sites be aware of the needs of their fellow students and step aside when appropriate to give those with immediate academic needs a priority." | 
