Facebook is a social networking website, launched on February 4, 2004. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former Harvard student.

Facebook is a massively successful social networking service that grew to prominence in virtually no time with an influx of $240 million of funding from Microsoft, which has been used to transform Facebook into a leading brand for social networking.

The site has more than 62 million active users (including non-collegiate members) worldwide. From September 2006 to September 2007 the site's traffic ranking increased from 60th to 7th, according to Alexa and it’s believed to be the most popular website for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily according to CNN. Facebook is now valued at $15 billion.

In Facebook, users create an profile in order to show personel details such as likes and dislikes, age and reasons for creating their profile. Users are encouraged to upload user pictures so fellow FaceBook users can post comments with the objective of building relations within the Facebook network. Similar to Myspace and Hi5 users can send Friend requests to friends and family to invite them to join their online profile.

One of the most commonly searched key words/phrases on GOOGLE and YAHOO is the keywords: Facebook proxy, unblock facebook and how to get on facebook at school such is the demand for the online service.

Such is the popularity of FaceBook, businesses, colleges and schools have online filters to block any attempts to view FaceBook during business hours and some local ISP (Internet Service Providers) in suppressed country regions for example China and the Middle East, deem Facebook unsuitable for viewer ship and as a result block the service from opening even from your home PC.

There are many different ways to unblock Facebook from behind a firewall filter.

How ever the best and easiest way of doing so is through a personnel VPN service which can be downloaded onto office or home computer.

What is VPN?

VPN or what are commonly known as VPN (Virtual Private Network), are frequently used by fellow internet users, who want a full anonymous presence while they are online.VPN works by encrypting all data from your laptop or PC and is currently the most advanced form of anonymity and data security for use on the Internet. VPN users have the luxury of bypassing ISP set fire walls and are able to view blocked websites which are deemed unsuitable for viewer ship for several different reasons.

What is www.TheNetgate.org?

TheNetgate is a Secure VPN Messenger & VOIP internet service that enables users to access & interact with their social networks, through a VPN secured platform.