Information Madness

All this social networking and stuff is good but who has time to sit in front of computer and poke around people? You can now subscribe to Facebook SMS alerts and get free Facebook alerts on your mobile for pokes, messages, comments, post on your wall, friend requests etc.

So what you have to do to get those free facebook SMS alerts on your mobile?

You first need to have an account.. I believe that is why you are reading this article..Second you should have a verified mobile phone.

According to Facebook, the supported networks and carriers at present are:

• USA: AT&T, Boost, Cingular, Helio, Nextel, Sprint, Verizon, Virgin Mobile USA
• Canada: Bell Mobility, Fido, MTO, Rogers, Sasktel, Solo Mobile, TELUS, Virgin Mobile Canada
• UK: O2
• India: Facebook has tied up with SMSGupShup to bring you the SMS updates on your mobile. For India, you can use 92FACEBOOK or 9232232665 and for Tata Indicome users, the shortcode is 51555.

Once you have verified your phone number through a confirmation code, you can choose to receive alerts of:

• Pokes
• Messages (I chose only to receive alerts of messages from people on my friends list to avoid spammy texts)
• Comments on your photos and notes
• Posts on your wall
• Friend requests

For Indian Users..

You can can join any Facebook page by simply texting fan <page_name> to 9232232665 (92FACEBOOK) from your mobile phone.

if you want to receive updates about a page on your cell, you can open that page on the Facebook site and choose “Subscribe via SMS”. To turn off updates, choose the unsubscribe option on the page itself or SMS “stop” to the same Facebook number – 9232232665.