Facebook Proxies,Unblock Facebook At School, Work Or Home

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Facebook Proxies are a simple solution if you are looking to unblock facebook from school, work or home.
If you have been locked out of Facebook, Myspace or any other website by your work or school, then you can bypass this by using whats called a proxy site.

Here is how proxy sites work: You visit your chosen proxy site, enter the website you would like to visit and do your business surfing the web via your chosen proxy, often anonymously, allowing you to by bypass your comany or school firewall.

Many people use a web proxy to get around their employer's firewall, such as visiting a shopping or gameing site. Other people use proxy sites to protect their privacy while on the internet.

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Proxy Sites, The Pros and Cons 

All proxy servers have the ability to track everything you do, and most companies providing legitimate services will only reveal this information if required to do so by authorities.

However, you should remember that others can track your activity for the purposes of gathering credit cards, birthdates and other valuable information. My advice here is to be careful what info you submit via a proxy site or any site for that matter.

Many of the proxy sites actually record your IP address along with the IP address they are allowing you to use

Types of Proxy Servers
A good proxy site will use an anonymous server which come in two flavors; disguised and Elite servers. The Elite proxy site does not leave any information or clues that it is providing these services. The disguised proxy will not show who it is protecting, but it will let sites know that it is a proxy server.

What proxy site should you use? Use this simple rule

If you're going to conduct business or give away personal information like credit card numbers and what to hide your identity, then use an elite proxy site.

If you're just browsing around and not planning on buying anything, then the free proxy sites will work fine.

Proxy List
I'll be adding a list of free and fee based proxy sites soon. Until then, use caution when using the free services! You might be saving a monthly fee, but in the end, it could cost you far more than if you had paid for an elite proxy site.

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Facebook and the Law 

Internet law professor Michael Geist looks at how Facebook has the power to affect legislation.

The power of Facebook, not just a social networking tool

If 2006 was the year of YouTube, 2007 has been Facebook's year. The growth of social media, led by Facebook, has taken the world by storm.

Since January, Facebook has added 250,000 new users each day with nearly 60 million people worldwide now using the site.

The hyper-growth does not tell the whole story, however.

Facebook has also acquired considerable attention regarding its user privacy policies, online marketing strategies and the short-sighted decision of some companies and governments to block employee access to the site.

While these issues have shone the spotlight on some of the challenges of social media, the lasting lesson of Facebook may come from a series of events that unfolded over the past two weeks in Canada.

They demonstrate that Facebook is far more than just a cool way to catch up with old friends; rather, it is an incredibly effective and efficient tool that can be used to educate and galvanise grassroots advocacy, placing unprecedented power into the hands of individuals.

Facebook costs businesses dear 

For some employees Facebook is part of their working day
Workers who spend time on sites such as Facebook could be costing firms over £130m a day, a study has calculated.
According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees "wasting time" on social networking.

The study - based on a survey of 3,500 UK companies - concluded that businesses need to take firm action on the use of social networks at work.

Some firms have already banned employees from accessing Facebook.

Lunch-break option

Mike Huss, director of employment law at Peninsula called on all firms to block access to sites such as Facebook.

He asked: "Why should employers allow their workers to waste two hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?"

He said that loss of productivity was proving a "major headache" for firms.

"The figures that we have calculated are minimums and it's a problem that I foresee will escalate," he said.

While some firms have embraced Facebook as a motivational tool, others have cracked down.

Last month, Kent County Council (KCC) banned workers from using Facebook in an effort to crack down on "time-wasting".

The TUC said last months that all-out bans were not the answer and that firms should draw up guidelines instead.

The organisation said employers were entitled to stop people using the sites during the working day but that staff should be able to use their time during lunch breaks to contact friends on sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.

Mr Huss is not convinced such an approach will work in the long-term.

"If a company can police the system, and only allow limited access during lunch breaks then that is fine. However I think it would be easier and less expensive to ban access altogether," he said.

Real friends?

Meanwhile, scientists have cast doubt on how big a part social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace can play in people's offline social lives.

Dr Will Reader, a researcher at Sheffield Hallam University, has been conducting research into the new types of friendships being fostered online.

Presenting his findings at the BA (British Association) Festival of Science at York University, he said that the huge contact lists of some members of Facebook and MySpace belied their real social status.

"Although the number of friends people have on these sites can be massive, the number of close friends is approximately the same as in the face-to-face real world contact," he told delegates at the festival.

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Wikipedia says 

Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of a book given to incoming students at Zuckerberg's high school alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy. The book shows the faces and names of the school's students and faculty.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University."Executive Bios", Facebook. Retrieved August 16, 2008.

Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 200 million active users worldwide."Facebook Statistics". Retrieved January 9, 2009.

Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria"Red lines that cannot be crossed", The Economist, July 24, 2008. Retrieved August 17, 2008.

and Iran,Shahi, Afshin. "IRAN'S DIGITAL WAR", Daily News Egypt, July 27, 2008. Retrieved August 16, 2008. although Iran later unblocked Facebook in 2009.http://internationalbroadcastingmonitor.blogspot.com/2009/03/iran-unblocks-facebook-and-youtube.html

It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.Benzie, Robert."Facebook banned for Ontario staffers", TheStar.com, May 3, 2007. Retrieved August 16, 2008.

Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.

A February 2009 Compete.com study has ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.