Messaging
Facebook SMS
Facebook SMS
Features:
  • Update your Facebook status
  • Receive messages from a friend and reply to them
  • Post a message on friends’ walls
  • Add a friend
  • Find email address of a friend
  • Find information of a friend
  • Poke a friend
  • Undo status changes
  • De-activate/Re-activate notifications on mobile handsets
  • Fan/Like a page
 
  1. Connect to the following link
    http://www.facebook.com/mobile
  2. Click on “Account” menu and select “Account Settings” from the drop down list
  3. Click on “Mobile” tab
  4. Click on “Register for facebook text messages” and select “Egypt” as a country, then “Etisalat” as a carrier
  5. Click Next
  6. Send an SMS to 32665 with the letters FB (to receive your confirmation code)
  7. Enter your confirmation code & click confirm.
    • You will be directed to the notification setup page and confirmation about your service activation.
    • You can edit all notification settings.
      e.g. what kind of notifications to receive, what should be the time of notification, number of notifications to be received, etc. To save setting users will be required to click on “Save Preferences” button.
    • You can add multiple phone numbers to a single profile or remove existing phone numbers as well; however notifications will only be sent to a single number
 
 
Action Send SMS to 32665
To update status Send <new status message> to 32665
e.g. I am at a party
To undo status change Send Undo to 32665
To fan/like a page Send <FAN page> to 32665
e.g. FAN Etisalat Misr
To poke a friend Send <Poke name> to 32665
e.g. Poke Etisalat Misr
To search for a friend’s information
(get their information – name, email, status, marital status, mobile # & more)
Send <Find name> to 32665
e.g. Find Ahmed Gamal
To add a friend
(User will get a list of people matching their criteria with closest matches of their friend’s name)
Send <Add name> to 32665
e.g. Add Ahmed Gamal
To find a friend’s email
(User friend has to be on Facebook to retrieve the email address)
Send <Email name> to 32665
e.g. Email Ahmed Gamal
To get help on list of commands Send < Help > to 32665
To deactivate notifications Send < OFF > to 32665
To reactivate notifications
(only for the previously registered users)
Send < ON > to 32665
  • All SMS sent to 32665 will be charged at 30 pts
  • All notifications received are free of charge
  • For Data access, standard Data charges apply
 
You can reply to notifications you receive
 
Notifications received Reply back
Poke notification
You have been poked on Facebook by "Friend Name" Reply "P" to poke "Friend Name" back
Reply P
Message notification
Facebook msg from "Friend Name" Subj: "subject" "Message Text" ("n" for next) Reply to msg "Friend Name" back.
User can only reply back to message when they have read the complete message. To read remaining message they will reply back to SMS with “n”
Wall notification
"Friend Name" wrote on your Facebook wall: "Message Text" ("n" for next) Reply to msg "Friend Name" back
User can only reply back to message when they have read the complete message. To read remaining message they will reply back to SMS with “n”. Reply to this message will be posted on friend’s wall.
Add a friend notification
"Friend Name" has requested to add you as a friend on Facebook. Reply "add" to add, or "info" to get profile
To add: Reply ADD
To get information: Reply Info
Photo tag notification
"Friend Name" added a photo of you on Facebook. "Photo-link"
Users can view the tagged photo by visiting the "photo-link" link on their handset. This would require GPRS activated handset to access the link.
  • All SMS sent to 32665 will be charged at 30 pts
  • All notifications received are free of charge
  • For Data access, standard Data charges apply
 
 
If the user does not send an MO in 30 days his account will be de-activated and the following reminder message will be sent to the user.

“You have not used Facebook texts in over 30 days. Notifications will be turned off. To continue receiving Facebook Mobile Texts, reply "ON" within 48 hours.”