How can I block and unblock facebook at will on my computer but with some difficulty? and How To Unblock Facebook

Many of us spend a lot of our time with the 'executive brain' switched off. We become volunatry zombies. Let's say that again, in big writing: We Are Voluntary Zombies!! In order to delete Facebook, i opened this file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and I added this line: 0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com Now when I go to facebook.com, it gets routed to 0.0.0.0 and the browser shows 'Connection closed by remote server' I can bring it back of course, by deliberately unblocking the site. But the key word is 'deliberate'. Giving in to temptation is not usually a deliberate act. When given the chance to deliberate, i'll need to engage my 'executive brain', and one of two things will happen: 1. I'll decide i don't really want to visit facebook, or 2. I'll visit it briefly and conscientiously, then re-block it afterwards. (note, to unblock it, just add a comment symbol, '#' to the front of that line in the hosts file) And, at the risk of being tarred, feathered, shot, drawn, hung, quartered and teased -- i only realised I was wasting time at that site because of the concerned intervention of my good and discounted friend, TimeSnapper. Thanks ts for stepping in where others didn't dare! I'm using TimeSnapper more every day. For monitoring, understanding, accounting, timesheeting... there's so many ways to benefit (yeh, and more to come of course. we never rest... we're like that terminator guy in that movie, what was it? terminator). Anyway, I block whatever sites I feel I ought to, and I've got some half-formed ideas about a toy to automate the blocking and temporary unblocking. Do you see a need?

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, How To Unblock Facebook Executing a Facebook Unblock Social networking is a big niche at the moment and in big niches there is always the tendency to develop technology to solve problems very quickly. If you do a Google search for Facebook unblock, you will see a number of different websites that are around for you to solve the blocking problem at your school or work. You can download software that will actually unblock the Facebook website and allow you to access it at work. Depending on the specific website that you visit, this software will either be free or cost money. The reason for the discrepancy is that software packages that cost money will get updated frequently. The battle with block and unblock, regardless of the specific website involved, is always a matter of the blocker and unblocker figuring out new ways to combat each other and a free software package does not have the updates that a paid software package would.  Another way to access the website would be through the utilization of a Facebook proxy. The term proxy as it relates to social networking websites such as Facebook has two meanings but the meaning we are most concerned with in this article is the proxy that allows you to access the Facebook website in spite of a block. Rather than working to remove the block and therefore allow you to access the website by typing the URL into your browser, the proxy concept is quite a bit different. It attempts to circumvent the block and actually keep the block in place. This is done by accessing the Facebook service through a different server. This server, referred to as a proxy server, is a server that is not easily identifiable as being a Facebook server (and indeed is not owned by Facebook) and therefore is difficult to block with the software most companies and schools use When you consider all of the different options available to people today, it seems almost futile that people would attempt to block Facebook and other social networking websites. In a way it really is futile, since technology grows so quickly that there are almost always going to be ways to circumvent blocking mechanisms. Whether some of these services will always remain free however, is a different matter entirely.