Social networking is the new communications buzz phrase, but in Maryland they didn't think much of it.

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Social networking is the new communications buzz phrase, but in Maryland they didn't think much of it. The General Assembly banned all access to Facebook and MySpace for computers running on the legislative network. Some 43 members of the General Assembly--which numbers 188--had Facebook accounts through which they communicated with constituents. "I'm kind of cut off from the outside world here," said Delegate Curtis Anderson. "It's a dark day." But five days later, the head of the General Assembly's Information...