Facebook Mobile Texts are a great way to keep in touch with facebook if you're not privileged enough to own a smartphone. Simply send a TXT to a special number from your cellphone in order to update your status or check up on friends, etc., and you can customise the facebook settings to receive texts for a variety of activities.
But first up you have to activate facebook texts for your account.
How to activate facebook texts
First ensure that you've entered your mobile number into your facebook profile, then go to facebook.com/mobile/ and click the link named Sign up for Mobile Texts
Step1
- Select New Zealand and choose your network provider (currently only "New Zealand Telecom" and "Vodafone" are supported - maybe 2degrees will come later?)
- Click Next
Step2
- Send an SMS containing just the letter f to 3223
- You should receive an SMS with a comfirmation code almost straight away
Step3
- Enter the confirmation code into the box provided
- Click Confirm
All done!
That was easy. You should have been redirected to a page saying "Confirmed!", along with information about how to use the service.
mobile social networking | facebook
Comments
| MobileOnline said on 19-Aug-2009: |
| The facebook page mentions that you can send a txt to 32665 to update your status, but we found that didn't work when txting from a vodafone mobile - try 3223 instead |