Surprise! I rarely ever get on the actual facebook site (part 2)

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I know most of the people just getting started with facebook think that it is totally ridiculous for their friends to "swing by" the site once an hour to see if the mafia has visited their homestead in farmville.

I agree.

Do you utilize your facebook notifications by sms texting? You should. I do, and I rarely ever get on the actual facebook site anymore. Most "comments" can be commented, and "likes" liked and "pokes" poked via sms texting.

Using Mobile Texts (taken directly from facebook help)

Visit the Mobile Texts page to learn about the different functions available through Mobile texts, such as posting on someone’s wall or updating your status. You can use the demo to type in different commands and see what action will be taken on Facebook.
You can select what actions cause Facebook Mobile Texts to send you SMS notifications by going to the Notifications tab of your Account Settings page. Be sure to click the "Save Changes" button after you have edited your settings.
Once you activate your mobile texts, you can set a daily limit by visiting the Mobile tab of your Account Settings page.
Facebook will send you a text when you have reached your daily limit. Reply to this text with "reset" to reset your limit for that day.
Once you activate your mobile texts, you can select when Facebook Mobile Texts sends you text notifications by visiting the Mobile tab of your Account Settings page.

Please note that these settings will apply to all applications that send you texts through the Facebook Mobile Texts feature. (Note: All actions will always appear on the website.)
To like a page via mobile text, just text like and the Page's username to your country code. For example, if you text:

like cnn

to your Facebook code, then you will like the CNN Page.
To read the rest of your message, just reply to the text message you received with the letter "n" (without quotes). You should also make sure that your phone does not include a signature at the end of your text messages.
First, make sure that you have already activated Mobile Texts. If you are receiving texts but are having trouble sending them, please read the following guidelines to troubleshoot your problem:
  • Check that you are sending your texts to the correct number. You can find this number on the Mobile Texts page.
  • Make sure that your phone does not include a signature at the end of your texts. This can interfere with Facebook Mobile correspondence.
  • Be sure that outgoing texts are still included in your service plan.
  • If you are receiving error messages when you try to send your text, it may be due to problems with your mobile service provider. Please try contacting your service provider for help.

If none of the above information resolves your issue, click here to submit a report about your issue.

In order to subscribe to your friends’ status updates, you must first make sure you have activated Facebook Mobile Texts on your mobile device. To activate Mobile Texts, go to the Mobile tab on the Account Settings page, click "Register for Facebook Text Messages," and complete the steps that follow. If your carrier is not listed in the drop-down menu it means that it is currently not supported for Facebook Mobile Text. We encourage you to talk to your mobile operator to let them know that you are interested in this service.

After you’ve activated Facebook texts, you can subscribe to a friend’s status updates by going to his or her profile and clicking the "Subscribe to SMS updates" link beneath the profile picture. You can also manage your subscriptions from the SMS Subscriptions tab of your Edit Friends page.
There are three different ways to unsubscribe from your friends’ status updates:
  • When you receive a status update text, simply respond with the word "Unsubscribe." You will then receive a confirmation text notifying you that you have successfully unsubscribed to that friend’s status updates.
  • Alternatively, you can navigate to your friend’s profile on the site and click the "Unsubscribe from SMS updates" link below his or her profile picture.
  • You can also manage your subscriptions from the SMS Subscriptions tab of your Edit Friends page. Click the drop-down menu to the right of your friend’s name and un-check them from the "SMS subscriptions" list.

To stop Facebook notifications from being sent to your phone, you can simply text "Off" (without quotation marks) to the number that you send your status updates to. You will receive a text message back confirming that Facebook texts are now off. Alternatively, you can go to the Mobile tab of your Account Settings page and change your settings to "Off." Note that you can still send text messages to the same number to update your status or take actions Facebook.

You can also choose to completely remove a number from your account on this page by clicking "remove" next to the phone number that you wish to remove.
Turning your Facebook texts on/off refers only to the text notifications that you receive when someone pokes, messages, writes on your Wall, or adds you as a friend. Even if you turn off your text notifications, you can always send texts to the Facebook Mobile Texts number to update your status, message a friend, or write on a friend's Wall. You can also always send a text to this number to look up information or perform an action.

Note that you also have the option to completely remove your number from your account. If you choose to remove your number from your account, you will have to reactivate Facebook Mobile Texts first before you can update your status and take other actions on Facebook through texts.

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