Facebook Mobile Texts allows you to use Facebook by SMS’ing from your phone. You now have the ability to update your status, send your friends messages, retrieve information about your friends as well as receive SMS’s whenever there are updates on your profile including messages, wall posts, friend requests etc.
You have to active Facebook mobile by registering your cellnumber here. From there you are requested to send the letter ‘F’ to 13999 which will confirm your cell number.
Your Facebook mobile settings to setup which notifications you would like to receive via SMS
On your mobile notifications settings, you are able to set that all pokes, messages, wall posts and friend requests are sent to your phone. You can also specify what time of the day you want to receive SMS’s.
Along with receiving SMS’s, you can update various aspects of your facebook profile. To do the following actions, SMS the appropriate keyword and message to 13999.
- Update status: is at john’s party
- Message: msg john smith whats up?
- Get profile info: srch john smith
- Get cell number: cell john smith
- Wall postwall john smith happy bday!
- Poke: poke john smith
- Add a friend: add john smith
- Write a note: note this is a mobile note
I have searched high and low for the cost on these SMSes. “Standard rates apply” is not good enough. I want to know what they cost. Seems top secret!