Being able to access Facebook in Vietnam on Mac is really no different than other computer operating systems. In the past, Macs and Windows PCs were a lot more different than today. By different, I mean that it was a major pain to get anything for Mac. Tech support, games, software, and pretty much anything else was harder to find for a Mac. Even today, a bit of that exists - one of the largest criticisms of Mac is that Mac stuff is limited to Mac affiliates. Anyone who's used an iPhone knows that you can only get iPhone apps at the official app store. However, being able to access Facebook in Vietnam on Mac is different. There's really no difference in the way it works for Windows or other operating systems, and it's easy to get a hold of it.

There are basically two reliable ways to access Facebook in Vietnam on your Mac. I say "reliable" because there are many different ways out there, but not all of them will always work, not all of them are from reliable sources, and not all of them make sense to the average Internet user. As a normal guy who went to Vietnam last year, I did the searches. I checked out the blogs, and I discovered these two methods were a lot easier to deal with than anything else.

One is called a proxy. Proxies act like a middle man between you and the Facebook site. Usually, when you try to access Facebook in Vietnam on your Mac, you get blocked. This block is because any requests to the Facebook IP from a Vietnamese IP are censored by your Vietnamese IP. However, if you first make a request to the proxy server outside of Vietnam, and the proxy server requests the Facebook site for you, the IP connecting to the Facebook site is not Vietnamese. It's maybe American, or British, or something that will get you on the site without a problem. Some of these are blocked in Vietnam, as they're a pretty common way to get around Firewalls and such, but there are also still some available.

Other than proxies, there's something called a virtual private network. A virtual private network or VPN as they're usually known, works much like a proxy. It acts as a middle man, first redirecting your traffic to an IP address outside of Vietnam, thus circumventing the censorship policies of your Vietnamese ISP. However, there are a few advantages of having a VPN. One, is that in addition to a new IP address, the traffic you send to and get from the VPN server outside of Vietnam is protected and hidden in two layers called encryption and tunneling. This makes sure that not only are able to access blocked sites on your Mac, your real IP address and Internet surfing activity is completely hidden from even the most advanced tracking systems.

Another advantage to using a VPN to access Facebook in Vietnam on Mac is that a VPN will hide your entire Internet device. This means that every program, application, or piece of software that you run on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac will be invisible. A proxy, while it does allow you to access Facebook in Vietnam on your Mac and other devices, only protects your browser.

These two methods are the most reliable because their paid services. One of the advantages of getting hooked up with these is that there's continued support and updates(for any changes in the Vietnamese firewall). This means that if anything goes awry, you can usually get it fixed in a couple of minutes. By reading some guys blog and changing settings on your computer, you may do more damage than good. Even if you are able to trick them into letting you log into Facebook in Vietnam, there's no guarantee that it will work every time, or as they make adjustments in the future.