How to Understand Notifications on Facebook

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On February 4, 2004, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook. Running the social networking website started as just a hobby for Zuckerberg. This was until Mark, together with two fellow students, brought Facebook to the next level. In order to run the popular website he dropped out of school and committed himself to it full time. With over 8 million U.S. users, Facebook is the second most popular social networking website after MySpace.¹

When you have a Facebook account with many friends, it can get somewhat overwhelming to manage and keep track of. This is why Facebook has 'Notifications'. Notifications is a feature that you can turn on or off. It will notify you the moment there is any activity taken on Facebook that involves you.The notifications will be send to the email address that you registered on your profile. Notifications takes away the need for you to log into your Facebook account numerous times to see if you have a message or friend request or other activity.

How to Understand Notifications on Facebook

This video will help you understand notifications on Facebook; what they mean, how to use them, and how to get rid of them.

Step 1: Sign Up For A Facebook Account

In order the understand notifications, you will need to sign up for a Facebook account first. Keep in mind that requirements to sign up include being at least 13 years of age, agreeing to the Facebook Terms and Conditions and having a valid email address. Sign up for Facebook as follows:

1. Go to the website Facebook.com.
2. Fill out the form page by entering your first name, last name, email, password, sex and date of birth. After filling out the form click 'Sign Up'.
3. An email will be send to your email address with a link that you will have to click on in order to activate your account. Therefore the next step is to check your email account and click on the link in the email.
4. Now you can add your Facebook profile and start adding friends. For more information on adding your profile go to the Mahalo page how to customize your profile on Facebook and to add friends the Mahalo page how to find friends on Facebook using an email account might help.²³

Step 2: Notifications

Once you've signed up for a Facebook account and you've personalized your page by adding photos, information and friends, you can choose to receive notifications when there is activity that concerns your account. To manage the notifications do the following:

1. Log into your Facebook account.
2. Click on the 'Account' button in the upper right hand corner.
3. From the drop down list choose 'Account Settings'.
4. From the resulting page click on the 'Notifications' tab.
5. You will be presented with the email address where the notifications will be send to.
6. You will also have the option to send notifications to your cell phone through via SMS. If you choose this option you will be walked through the steps to activate your phone for Facebook Mobile.

Step 3: Turning Notification On Or Off

After going through the steps mentioned in Step number 2 on this page, you can start turning on the notifications. You will see a list of possible notifications displayed with a check box behind them. To activate the notification just check the box. Some of the notifications you can receive include notifications is someone:

• Sends you a message
• Adds you as a friend
• Confirms a friendship request
• Posts on your Wall
• Pokes you
• Tags you in a photo
• Tags one of your photos
• Comments on your photos
• Comments on a photo of you

After choosing the notifications you want to receive, make sure to save your settings by clicking the 'save' button at the bottom of the page. There are numerous more notifications that you can opt to receive. Even notifications when someone sends you a gift or birthday notifications are available.