Many people probably aren’t aware that they can receive totally free SMS text alerts from
Facebook on their mobile phone through Facebook Mobile.
Facebook for some has become a companion while for some, they just can't do without it for a day.
In whichever case, this article is to help keep you updated with you facebook account. With this notifications,
you would know if someone replied to something you have posted? Or maybe you want to be directly notified if someone makes a post.
I will be showing you to the process of enabling your Facebook notifications by E-mail and/or SMS text messaging. And the best thing of all is that you can respond back to these notifications by just replying in those e-mails and SMS Text messages.
Steps/Procedures:
FOR EMAIL ALERT
1. You’ll need to sign up with Facebook Mobile to receive alerts (alerts are free unless your network provider charges you to receive texts). 2. On the right top end of your screen, you click on Account -> Account Settings
3. On the “My Account” Page click on “Notifications” in the top bar.
4. Now on this page you can already see that your email is listed and you can check on the list below of all
the different notifications you would like to receive by email. If you get your email on your device they
will show up accordingly to your email sync schedule of your device. The e-mails coming in will let you
know that you can comment back to those notifications by just replying to those e-mails.
FOR SMS ALERT
5. On the in step 3 reached Notification Page you can now click on “Send notifications to my phone via SMS”6. A pop up will appear for step 1 out of three steps.
A warning will appear first
“Note:Before you can receive notifications via SMS, you must activate your phone for Facebook Mobile”
Open a new browser and go to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/ ->scroll down and select Mobile
“Settings” and choose “Enabled” and save your settings. Some of you probably have it enabled already.
In the pop up screen select “your country” and then your “mobile carrier/network provider” and select “Next”
7. Using your mobile phone, send a SMS Text message containing only the letter “f” (without quotes) to 32665(FBOOK)
8. At this point you will receive a SMS Text message back with a confirmation code. Select Next in the
“Step 2″ pop up box from Facebook and enter your code there and check if you want this number listed under your profile for others to see. Now Select “Confirm“.
9. Your Facebook account settings page will now default to the My Account – Mobile page. Here you are able to select which notifications you would like to receive. This page also allows you to enter specific Facebook friends which status updates you would like to receive as well by SMS Text messages. Check out the other settings on this page to suite to your needs. Make sure to select “Save Preferences” on the bottom of this page.
10. When you receive a SMS Text message from your Facebook account you can respond back easily to those status updates by replying that SMS Text message.
ALERT: This could be fun but really sometimes it could be disturbing especially for those with many friends, but an option which is probably worth considering is to disable alerts between 10pm at night and 9am in the morning.
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