NEW YORK - It was attended by three commercial districts, two subway lines, and generally a lot of walking in the freezing cold. But I had completed his mission to defeat all three Manhattan stores Apple, so that if it was true that business’ computer stations have blocked access to Facebook, because too many people using the popular social network to waste time. (Editors’ Note: At time of publication, the link above is a network timeout error.)

Verdict: An Apple Store representative told me on the phone late on Friday, “We have not blocked the Facebook of our shops.” But it looks like some stores may put the unit in place of their own volition.

Apple retail stores are equipped with well-known Internet-working, which are available at the time, intended to be used as demonstrations for potential buyers, is also free for public use. This has led to some problems with nonshoppers monopolizing the machine and took the space: in the middle of 2007, Apple is blocking access to MySpace, which was then the world’s largest social network site.

I hit the activities of the Fifth Avenue Apple flagship store in Midtown (you know, the big glass cube), 14 th Street in the Meatpacking District store, while in the store on Prince Street in the city center near SoHo.

At the Fifth Avenue store, I was able to access Facebook from a laptop, but on a different domain name facebook.com to the page Apple Store. In the Meatpacking District store, while two Facebook laptop boots without problems, but on the desktop brought up a message explaining that parental control “in Safari have blocked it.

In the SoHo store, at the time, I had no problems with access to Facebook, any random computers I tested. Ironically, it is in the SoHo store, which was inhabited by a majority of people who clearly are not customers, but by the time I swung by, it was lunch hour at a local secondary school, and the computers were occupied by teenagers checking out games and music .

So, what it looks like that, even if there is no nationwide ban Facebook in the stores of Apple, as some have suggested, a few individual shops have decided to go their own way.