Facebook blocked in Iran
Facebook, the famous social network, is one of the most visited website on the internet. It was launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and in September 2012 it had over one billion active users in the world.
On Facebook, you can share a lot of things : photos, videos, statuts, links, with everybody. You can stay connected with your friends in live chat or private messages.
As everybody can share on Facebook, some people use it to contest their governments. For example in Iran, Facebook is blocked after the 2009 election in Iran.
Facebook is also blocked in Syria.
How to unblock Facebook in Iran?
So if you want to access Facebook in Iran, you will have to change your IP address. Your IP address is the only way to identify you on the internet, it’s composed of digits and contains informations about your country, your internet provider and your country. So if you want to go on websites that are geoblocked in your country, you will have to take an IP address from a country that doesn’t block the website, like the USA for Facebook.
You can change your IP address with a VPN. A VPN (virtule private network) is an application that will create a secured connection between you and a VPN server, hosted by a VPN provider. Once you have chosen the VPN provider you want, just connect to it and your IP address will change.
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Bottom Line
So if you live in Iran and you want to access Facebook, all you have to do is to change your IP address !