One place that many people use proxies nowadays is in online social networking. The web 2.0 revolution started with websites like MySpace and YouTube and has moved on to literally hundreds if not thousands of niche websites that have really redefined the way a number of people use the internet.
MySpace alone receives more hits than any major search engine on a daily basis and is used by a very gigantic percentage of the world’s population each day. To that end, a lot of less desirable characters are present on MySpace and one of the tactics that many people have used to avoid these people is to adopt proxies.
Proxies in the MySpace sense are accounts that do not reveal all of the personal information about a person. They might use an assumed name, a secondary e-mail address or any other tactics that would result in their serious personal information being safe from the eyes of unscrupulous internet predators.
Orkut is another example of a social networking website where this usage of proxies goes on. The internet security firm Websense is very well known for its work in the field of security for people’s online endeavors and they also have a lot of useful information about proxies.
A proxy online is simply a method, software or hardware that a person uses to mask who or what they really are. For example, many people do not want the vast majority of people to know the specific server set up they have and to that end they end up using proxies in order to disguise the true location and makeup of their server.
This is just one example of dozens that occur regularly in the online world and because of that many people nowadays are discussing the need for proxies more and more in differing parts of the internet world.