Mike Huss, director of employment law at Peninsula, this week issued a call to arms for downtrodden corporations across the land, urging all UK businesses to adopt a blanket ban of social networking site Facebook.

“Why should employers allow their workers to waste two hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?” he mused, overlooking the fact that the increasingly ubiquitous website is rapidly replacing speech as the world’s favourite way of communicating with clients, telling the world how hungover you are and slyly keeping tabs on ex-girlfriends.