While you might not know it, whenever you use an online social networking website like MySpace, Bebo or Facebook, you are actually probably using proxy services to enable your usage of the program.

Most people do not know this because most people do not know what a proxy server is. A proxy server is a server that you can use to indirectly access information from another server.

This means that you can submit your request to the proxy server and let the proxy server obtain the information you need from the actual server without you having to directly connect to the actual server.