A lesser known feature of Facebook is Facebook Mobile. I just set up a text message feature that allows me to get text whenever a select group of friends updates their status. This feature has been around for awhile, but I forgot about it since I didn’t have an unlimited text plan at the time it was launched. Now that  I have an iPhone and unlimited text, I have the ability to stay connected with my friends 24/7. A lot of other sites have this ability; some are even built on it. But Facebook has one huge advantage over these other sites, which is the power of your social graph. I can now get important updates (and not so important ones) from my family and real friends as they are posted.

The goal is to get my family and friends to reciprocate and add me to their status update notifier. Such connectivity would completely transform the way we communicate and would result in more familiarity with each of our day to day lives.  Since most of my family is living in Texas, it would be as close to home as I can get…

Facebook Mobile Settings