Help me stalk my Facebook friends like I used to
January 22, 2011 1:57 PM Subscribe
I used to get SMS notifications whenever certain Facebook friends posted stuff to their walls. The notifications seem to have stopped coming. Did Facebook remove this feature?
I prided myself on being able to respond to certain Facebook friends' posts with great alacrity (and I enjoyed some people's resulting assumption that I was constantly glued to their profiles or my newsfeed) because they came immediately to the screen on my iPhone. However, I seem to have stopped getting the SMS messages, and I am looking at Facebook and not seeing the link (which used to be on the profile pages of friends) to enable SMS messages whenever they post something.
Am I just not seeing it, or is it gone?
I prided myself on being able to respond to certain Facebook friends' posts with great alacrity (and I enjoyed some people's resulting assumption that I was constantly glued to their profiles or my newsfeed) because they came immediately to the screen on my iPhone. However, I seem to have stopped getting the SMS messages, and I am looking at Facebook and not seeing the link (which used to be on the profile pages of friends) to enable SMS messages whenever they post something.
Am I just not seeing it, or is it gone?
Response by poster: I found it.
The little collection of links on the left hand side of the page, when you're on your newsfeed (links starting with News Feed, Messages, Events, Friends, Create Group ...) has to be expanded by clicking "More," then you will see toward the bottom a link that says "Mobile." You click on that, it takes you to a Facebook Mobile page, you click "Edit settings" toward the bottom of that page, and you can add or remove people from the list of people to get SMS alerts on.
(That doesn't explain why I haven't been getting them.)
posted by jayder at 2:35 PM on January 22, 2011
The little collection of links on the left hand side of the page, when you're on your newsfeed (links starting with News Feed, Messages, Events, Friends, Create Group ...) has to be expanded by clicking "More," then you will see toward the bottom a link that says "Mobile." You click on that, it takes you to a Facebook Mobile page, you click "Edit settings" toward the bottom of that page, and you can add or remove people from the list of people to get SMS alerts on.
(That doesn't explain why I haven't been getting them.)
posted by jayder at 2:35 PM on January 22, 2011
Response by poster: Oh, thanks donnagirl. Your method is quicker.
posted by jayder at 2:35 PM on January 22, 2011
posted by jayder at 2:35 PM on January 22, 2011
Response by poster: It's odd that they removed the ability to turn on SMS alerts from your friends' profiles.
posted by jayder at 2:36 PM on January 22, 2011
posted by jayder at 2:36 PM on January 22, 2011
So, just curious, when you found the page, did it look like things were set up correctly, or had your previously-set settings gone missing? Sometimes I feel like I get Facebook texts in waves, like some days it just goes on vacation and doesn't bother to text me.
posted by donnagirl at 2:39 PM on January 22, 2011
posted by donnagirl at 2:39 PM on January 22, 2011
Response by poster: All the settings were still there. But it seems like I have missed some texts.
posted by jayder at 6:22 AM on January 23, 2011
posted by jayder at 6:22 AM on January 23, 2011
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posted by donnagirl at 2:32 PM on January 22, 2011