| Friendster login problems are common and | | | | Friendster website. A Friendster login is impossible |
| Friendster proxies are not an uncommon solution. | | | | when the computer you are using identifies |
| I am sure that many of you reading this have | | | | Friendster, or a specific IP address, as the target |
| experienced that awful moment when your login | | | | site. However, there is a way to overcome that: |
| has failed, or you can't access the site, and you | | | | by using a Friendster proxy. |
| have tried again with the same result. Here are | | | | FRIENDSTER PROXIES |
| the three major reasons for this, and what to do | | | | The way a Friendster proxy works is easiest |
| overcome the problem. | | | | explained thus: |
| 1. Wrong Friendster Login Used | | | | The computer you are using is A. Friendster is B, |
| In today's world when you have dozens or more | | | | with an IP address of IPB. You find a proxy site C |
| user names and passwords to remember, it is | | | | with IP address IPC, and access it. Your computer |
| easy to forget your login, or to confuse one with | | | | recognizes that you are accessing site C with IP |
| another. It is stupid to use the same logins for all | | | | address IPC. |
| your password protected websites and pages, | | | | Site C offers you a search box into which you |
| and occasionally you get it wrong. | | | | type the URL of Friendster. Site C then accesses |
| This is the simplest of the login problems to | | | | Friendster and allows you to view it and also to |
| resolve: click on the 'forgot password' link under | | | | log on to Friendster using your own Friendster |
| the login box, and Friendster will email you your | | | | login details. You can now view and use your |
| password. If you have lost your email address, | | | | Friendster pages as normal. Computer A is still |
| then you have problems! You will have to | | | | seeing you as being connected to C IP address |
| re-register with a new email address and then | | | | IPC, and not Facebook with IPB, so allows the |
| invest in password security software that stores | | | | connection to continue. |
| your login details and auto-fills login boxes for you. | | | | Such proxies can be used to bypass any block |
| 2. Breaking Friendster's Terms of Service | | | | placed on any site from any computer, so |
| If you seriously breach Friendster's Terms of | | | | Friendster proxies can also be used as MySpace |
| Service, such as any of the list of prohibitions, | | | | proxies and Facebook proxies. If the proxy site is |
| you can have your subscription cancelled. You | | | | headed as a specific proxy site, you will likely be |
| could appeal against this if you feel it is an error, | | | | able to use for any other social website as long |
| but you will generally be unsuccessful. Social | | | | as it offers a search box and not a fixed link. You |
| networks operate on trust, and any breach of | | | | can connect to any site using the search box, but |
| that is unacceptable. Learn the TOS and stick to | | | | a fixed link is restricted to the one URL. |
| them - ignorance is no excuse. You will find the | | | | Therefore, if you find difficulty with your |
| TOS in the navigation at the very bottom of | | | | Friendster login, make sure that the first two |
| each page. | | | | reasons above do not apply, and then find a |
| 3. Access Denied | | | | proxy. Your school or college can do nothing |
| Many employers and educational establishments | | | | about it other than find the proxy site URL and |
| such as schools and universities prevent | | | | then ban that. Then you find another proxy site - |
| Friendster access by denying access to the | | | | it's great fun! |