2013年8月12日星期一

How to Successfully Access Facebook in China

If you’re planning a visit to China and intending to share all your exciting activities and photos with your friends on Facebook – beware. The Chinese government blocks Facebook. But don’t give up. There are ways to access Facebook in China. Read on for details…

Realize that you cannot access Facebook in China directly. This is an important step that will save you a lot of heartache and frustration. It's not your computer, it's not your account. It's country-wide and it's not personal. So just get on with finding a solution.

  1. Try a proxy. A proxy is a website, often based in a different location than you, that will let you access other sites through it. So if your proxy is in the USA, and you access Facebook through it, it should be like accessing Facebook in the USA. Here's a list of free proxies:http://hidemyass.com/proxy-list/. You should for sure try them first, because why pay - but you may find they're not a great solution to access Facebook in China because 1) China keeps finding and blocking them too 2) they often don't have good enough programming to handle the technology of social media

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    Try a secure proxy. The one I've used which works well for Facebook and other social media is Proxy Center ( https://www.proxy-center.com ). They have a free trial so you can make sure that it will work for you before you pay anything, or even give them your email. Benefit of a proxy like this (as opposed to a VPN, which we'll talk about in the next step) is that there's nothing to install on your computer - it's all web-based.

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    Try a VPN. This stands for Virtual Private Network, and it's like putting your whole computer in a different country. The benefit of a VPN is that it affects your whole computer, meaning any internet based programs, like Skype, and not just websites. If you decide to go this route, do research and shop around.

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    Try TOR. it can encrypt your communication to the world. It is not as easy as the options above and requires you to install a software on your computer but if you are not afraid of technology, you should give it a try.

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    Enjoy sharing with your friends with your newfound access to Facebook in China!



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