How to Unblock Facebook Using Gmail
Most of us are crazy about Facebook and can’t live without it. Whether is it in home, school or office we all spend some time in Facebook every day. But nowadays most schools, colleges and offices block the accessing of Facebook. I was so addicted to Facebook so that I can’t live without it. But unfortunately my college library has a blocking system which prevents me from accessing Facebook. For me, chatting with friends in Facebook was better than sleeping in the damn boring Engineering classes 
. Earlier I used Google Translator to peak in to Facebook from college library. But then the system administrator found it and blocked Google translator and I was left stranded.
Recently I found an article by Swamykant of Your Digital Space about accessing Facebook from Gmail. I got interested and tried it with my Gmail account. Wow! It worked! Now I can access Facebook using Gmail. Since Gmail is allowed in most schools and offices you can peak in to Facebook using this trick. I have created and uploaded a Youtube video showing step by step instructions to configure Gmail for using Facebook. You can watch it here.
How to Unblock Facebook using Gmail
1. Login to your Gmail account.
2. Go to Settings >> Labs
3. Browse to ‘Add a gadget by URL’. Click Enable. Now a new ‘Gadget’ tab is added to Settings.
4. Click on the Gadgets tab and add the following URL in the box.
http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/104971404861070329537/facebook.xml
Click the Add button. (Special thanks to IBuno for creating this gadget.)
5. Now you can find a ‘Facebook’ link on the left sidebar (below chat).
6. Click on that link and now you can login directly in to Facebook from Gmail.
That is it; now you can update your status, view your friend’s updates and comments. Happy Facebooking!
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Nice post
Thanks for the comment
Dear Rojish I’m not able to add gadget, where and what is the problem behind..????
Hello Yasir, the gadget is working fine for me. Please try again.
Thanks Rojish Gadget has been added but when I click on Facebook link it opens a window on right side but doesn’t work and window is blank just shows buffering and don’t show anything please help me how can I access facebook in my office,,,??????
and what if gmail is also block?
It is very unlikely that Gmail account is blocked. Gmail is the most popular email service in the world and institutions very rarely block Gmail.
Rojish,
This is a nice facebook “hack”. I’ll make a note of this just in case I’ll come across a network that blocks facebook.
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Hi Rojish
Thanks for giving the credit. This is an excellent video tutorial.
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Thanks for the comment buddy
It was from your article I learned the trick.
emm. i still can live without facebook. Facebook just a tools to me. Not my life.
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Nice article., well do you know how to unblock adsense ad. My adsense ad is blocked cause i was new . So how to re activate it. Do you have any idea.
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madhuri
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Hi Madhuri, thanks for your comment.
Can you please elaborate your question? Do you mean your adsense got suspended?
Thanks man this is very useful BTW crediting is awesome
in my country there is network filtering on many sites including Facebook and this way can not unblock it
I think this just add a gadget to make facebooking simpler in gmail not to unblock anything since all facebook requests goes to original facebook servers they are not working in blocked network.
regards
Sad that this trick did not work in your country
I tested this in my college library and was able to bypass the filter. Your country may have strong network filter that is why it is not working
Great tip Rojish. This is a great hack when one is not able to access FB. This is particularly useful in offices. Thanks for the information.
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i have linked my facebook using gmail so i can open my facebook,but now after i login my gmail i cant open my facebook using gmail(linked account),why?
Dear Rojish,
I was able to add this gadget to my gmail but once i click on it, it doest display anything! the page stays blank!! why does taht happen? plz help
The gadget is still working fine for me.
It seems they made slight changes to coding and introduced facebook authentication.
Try going to this link and add to the gadget iGoogle. There will be a button for facebook authentication. Give permission for the gadget to allow the access to facebook wall.
It may solve your problem.
I cant get the gadget to show on the side. It only has the stuff i usally have. Help!
my facebook does not come like this.
when i click on facebook nothing comes plz help me!!
Gmail has also been blocked here in China.
Now it`s working OK though…
Thanks Rojish Gadget has been added but when I click on Facebook link it opens a window on right side but doesn’t work and window is blank just shows buffering and don’t show anything please help me how can I access facebook in my office,,,??????plz told me how to continue