How to Change My Facebook Status on My Mobile Phone
Facebook status updates are a useful way to keep friends and contacts updated with what's happening in your life. Noteworthy events can occur at any time, and you may not always be near a computer when you need to change your Facebook status. Users with a smartphone can access the Facebook Mobile application to update their status. However, there's an easy way to update your Facebook status from most cellphones. Sign up for a dedicated upload email address with Facebook and you can update your status by sending an email from your cellphone.
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Launch your computer's Web browser and go to Facebook Mobile. Log into Facebook Mobile with your Facebook username and password.
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Select "Send My Upload Email to Me Now." This opens a pop-up window with your registered email address. You can change this email address from the drop-down menu or leave it as it is.
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Click "Send Email." Facebook will now send your dedicated upload email address. Use the upload email address to update your Facebook status, or upload photos and videos from your phone.
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Copy the dedicated Facebook upload email address into your phone's address book so that you can find it easily when you need to update Facebook.
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Open your phone's email client and create a new email message.
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Enter the Facebook upload email address into the address field of the email.
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Type your status update into the subject field of the email address. Facebook will include only the text in the email subject field as your status update.
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Send the email from your cellphone. Facebook will display your emailed status update on your profile and home pages.
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Tips & Warnings
Upload videos and photos from your cellphone to Facebook using the same process but attach the multimedia file to the email. Facebook uses the text in the subject line of emails with multimedia attachments to caption the photo or video rather than as a status update.
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