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22nd October
2007
written by aydin

I was surprised to find out recently that a lot of people still don’t know that they can update their Facebook status via text message (i.e. SMS). This is actually pretty easy and its a great way to make sure that everyone is spying on you all the time :)

All you have to do is send a text message to FBOOK (32665) and make sure that your text message starts with an “@” character

So, for example, If I wanted to update my status to “Aydin is blogging now”, all I’d have to do is send the following text message to facebook (32665):

“@ blogging now”.

btw, you can tell if someone updated their facebook status from their cell phone if you see a small mobile phone icon right next to their status update…

Use it!

Aydin.

posted by: Aydin Mirzaee .

10 Comments

  1. 07/05/2008

    Hmm I got a ‘access dennied’ message back. Is there more instructions you need to give to enable this?

  2. beunreasonable
    07/05/2008

    Charles,

    you may have to install the facebook mobile application and activate on facebook before you can use this functionality…

    hope this helps,
    Aydin.

  3. 30/07/2008

    Great find! I’m going to have to start testing this out. What a cool way to keep folks up to date with what you are doing.

  4. 02/12/2008

    is this possible from europe too? doesn’t seem to be…

  5. anon
    09/12/2008

    I dont think it’s working now.

  6. Cyndi
    08/03/2009

    Thanks for the info. It got me started in the right direction!

    You have to go to facebook.com/mobile to get a confirmation code sent to your phone. After you put the confirmation code in the appropriate field on facebook.com/mobile, you can start updating (and other stuff) using text messages.

  7. mike
    19/03/2009

    im having a problem. when i repsond to one of my friends status update and when he replies back, i dont get that reply sent to my phone like i use to, nor do i get any of my friends response to his status sent to my phone as SMS text. this problem started happenning 2 days ago. how do i fix it?

  8. 28/03/2009

    Unfortunately, It’s working on operator 3(Three) only.. Currenly i’m living in Indonesia

  9. sky
    17/05/2009

    will u get charge for doing that update thru your cell phone by using SMS?

    *can u email me?

  10. Nadia Shaheen
    07/06/2009

    DOES THIS COST COS MY BILL IS RIDICLUS.

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