If I'm ordered to avoid a certain house or small non-social website, I can do that easily.
Facebook on the other hand, goes out of it's way to make contact with me. I have to use special browser add-ons to keep it from tracking my web behavior across other sites. Is this contact? What happens if 3rd party sends me something that is Facebook related and I accidentally click on it?
The order to not contact Facebook reminds me a little of an order to stay away from any physical location where post or shipping activities are conducted or offered. Potentially so broad an order that would preclude me from visiting any location in my community (grocery stores with post offices) or any website online (www.momandpopwebsite.com with integrated FB social media stuff).
The real-life metaphor doesn't seem to follow. This would be like being banned from a store and then arguing that their marketing flyer constitutes permission to reenter.
The courts aren't so black and white that they would prosecute someone for accidental requests.
But the more important point is that is a 'website' property that you get the legal right of exclusion on? Is the land metaphor even meaningful?
My concern with a court ordering non-contact with Facebook is that Facebook's omnipresence on the internet would make complying with that order quite difficult in practice. Simply going online, with intent to go online, would be sufficient to violate a non-contact order.
In my (perhaps bad) example, the grocery store with an in-store post office, was to try to extend the blurring of lines between two independent parties in the physical world. Post office may wish to exclude you from all their places of operations, but you still gotta eat and get food from somewhere.
To function in this world, you need the ability to get online and if you are online long enough, you will touch Facebook systems.
If I'm ordered to avoid a certain house or small non-social website, I can do that easily.
Facebook on the other hand, goes out of it's way to make contact with me. I have to use special browser add-ons to keep it from tracking my web behavior across other sites. Is this contact? What happens if 3rd party sends me something that is Facebook related and I accidentally click on it?
The order to not contact Facebook reminds me a little of an order to stay away from any physical location where post or shipping activities are conducted or offered. Potentially so broad an order that would preclude me from visiting any location in my community (grocery stores with post offices) or any website online (www.momandpopwebsite.com with integrated FB social media stuff).