Facebook Unblock - How Can I?

My sister-in-law, Nana, burst into my room one afternoon looking really irate. She just came home from school while I was finishing up a web design for my new site.

‘Hey! Problem at school?’, I asked her.

‘Yeah! Major problem!’, she yelled raising her arms dramatically.

‘Our school administration blocked Facebook’, she explained. ‘How can they do that?! Facebook connects me to my friends. It’s where I upload photos, share video and music… it’s part of my teenage life!

‘Calm down now’, I said chuckling. ‘It’s not the end of the world’

‘Oh, it is for me! , she retorted. ‘I need that site!’

She eyed me sheepishly. ‘You’re the computer geek. How do we get a Facebook unblock at school?’

‘Well, since you are my favorite sister-in-law, I’ll tell you how’, I replied tapping her hand, and straightened up and started my lecture.

We can access blocked websites in two ways:

• One is through a free proxy web site. But, the quality of these sites isn’t really reliable and they tend to contain spam and often get barred by schools and offices.

• The second is by using a PC that has access to the blocked site and operating it via remote control.

Now, here are the tricks to get a Facebook unblock at school or work:

• Set up the Facebook Access at School application on your home PC. With this application you can access Facebook or any site from school or work. It functions by searching for non-blocked proxies sites. So when you’re in school, you just inform someone, like your friend perhaps, who has access on Facebook and is using this application and ask him for the URLs of currently non-blocked proxies. Access the URL through your school or workplace browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox ) and search for Facebook.

• If no one is available online to assist you with the URLs of currently non-blocked proxies, try to get Facebook unblocked via a proxy website.

• While at school, you may also navigate your home PC by using a remote control device. But, for this to work, your home PC should have access to Facebook. Although this technique can be effective, it may not always come handy as there are schools and offices that do not allow the installation of remote control software on their computer system.

Nana’s face lit up. Beaming, she landed a quick peck on my face and glided to the door. ‘I’ll do it tonight’, she announced.

And you? Do you have any Facebook Blocked or Facebook unblock stories?