Today, facebook is a well-known social media network and it a household name for millions of people around the world who use it to make friends, share photos, and discuss common interests. Many children like computer and like facebook, these young children often spend too much time on facebook, and they may be interacting with complete strangers or oline predators. So, many parents worry about it, and want to block their children from facebook and other social media network, but can we block children from facebook? If we can do it, then how to block children from facebook.
To get the answer of these question, let us together learn the following step by step guide to block children from facebook. In fact, there are multile ways to block children from facebook, in this guide, we list two ways. Ok, let us learn it together now.
1. Edit Hosts File To Block Children From Facebook
The hosts file is one of several system facilities that assists in addressing network nodes in a computer network. It is a common part of an operating system's Internet Protocol implementation, and serves the function of translating human-friendly hostnames into numeric protocol addresses, called IP addresses, that identify and locate a host in an IP network. We can use it to block children from facebook. Following is a step by step guide about how to block children from facebook by editing hosts file.
1) Open the hosts file by notepad.exe, the hosts file is located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, it's file name is hosts.
2) Copy the following string and then paste these string into the end of the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 blog.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 apps.facebook.com
3) Save and close the hosts file by notepad.
Ok, after completing these steps, you can try to visit facebook by your web browser, you will get a failed information when you visit facebook. However, this way is unperfect. You can edit hosts file and your children can edit it too, so you need a better way to block children from facebook.
2. Use A Website Black List To Block Children From Facebook
2) Install the software into your computer. This is an easy operation, what you need to do is following it's installation wizard to click 'Next' button.
3) Run the software and click the 'Control' tag button to open Control page in the main Window.
4) Click 'Website Black List' button to open website black list, and then you can add any website into the black list to block certain websites.
Now, you should try it by yourself, you can download it for free by clicking the follow button.
