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If you consider it strange to find the terms Friendster login and Facebook proxies in the same title, don't. The reason for that will become clear as you continue reading.

People with Friendster login difficulties have likely been blocked from logging in, the two most common blockers being an employer or an educational establishment. Schools, colleges and universities are well known from blocking students from accessing a wide range of social networking sites, including Friendster and Facebook. So that is the main reason why you should not be surprised to find Friendster and Facebook mentioned in the same title.

They are both popular social networking websites, and both are equally likely to be blocked. Apart from colleges, employers will also put a block on a number of URLs that they do not want employees spending their time visiting. Some employers will place conditional blocks, such that certain authorized personnel can click a button to request permission to visit the website in question. However, only authorized personnel will be granted that permission.

What Sites are Barred?

So how do you access a website that has a block placed on it? It's easy if you know that the block is made on the URL that you enter into the address bar on the browser of your computer. The computer, or server if each computer passes through a central server, will be alerted to refuse to connect specific URLs, such as those for Friendster and Facebook. Other popular social networking sites that get blocked include MySpace, YouTube and Twitter.

How to Overcome the Bar

However, if you first visit another website that offers its own address box, you can enter the URL you want into that and access the site from there. The block cannot see past the initial site you have logged on to.

Thus, if you visit Site A, and the URL for site A is not on the list of those to be refused, then you will find yourself on that website. If that site then offers you a search box into which you can enter a URL and click to access it, then you can use the correct Friendster URL and get to that site. Then enter your Friendster login and you are there. As far as your computer is concerned, you are still on Site A. That site is referred to as a 'proxy'.

What About Other Sites?

Going back to the Site A example, the search box is not specific for Friendster logins: it can also be used as a Facebook proxy, or for access to any other website whatsoever. The trace cannot see what site you go to after Site A, so cannot block it. You can use it as a MySpace proxy and also to log into YouTube or your Twitter account.

However, it is important that you don't stay on these sites too long or your school, college or employer might be wondering what you are doing in Site A for so long because your activity there can be logged, though not the other URLs you access from it. An important property of proxy sites for you to keep in mind is that when you see an advert for a Facebook proxy or Friendster login, you can use it for both - it is not specific.

Limited Life

Another point to keep in mind is that eventually the proxy URLs, or Site A, gets known, and when it does, then frequently it is passed from school to school and college to college. You then have to find another, and that is where those sites that offer you proxies are very useful. They keep up to date with proxies, and their sites offer you the latest proxies available.

So, if you find that your access to certain website URLs is limited, and you can't get to the one that you want, then find a proxy and use that. You will be safe because the computer or even intranet you are using will not be able to see where you are going after that.

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