There are times when we can’t login to Facebook because it has blocked by company proxy or you don’t want to let others know you are online in Facebook. While you can do this by sending email to Facebook to notify them to update status for you. Facebook allow users to update their profile status easily by sending an email to them. The overall process is very simple and easy. But I think you need to use your default email provider as specify in your Facebook account settings. I have try using my primary email and my status is updated in a second.
Step by step instructions
- Login your account at Facebook.com. Go to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/ to obtain the Facebook email address for updating status.
- Sign-in to your email account that use to login to Facebook. Compose a new email and enter recipient email you have obtain in previous step
- Type the status you want in the email subject field. The email body can leave it blank. (Note: Status update via email does not support other languages such as Chinese, Japanese, French or others. It will appear as weird characters)
- Click send and make sure the email is sent successfully.
- Check your Facebook for updated status.
- Done.
I guess you can upload pictures to Facebook by adding in email attachments but I am not yet try this yet as I don’t have any picture to upload. Will try that once I have new pictures to upload. Enjoy!
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If you add a video or photo as an attachment, it will be uploaded to a new photo album called “Mobile Uploads”, of course once you create this album, rest of photos will be uploaded to same album whenever you upload another photo.
The subject of the email will be used as the caption of the photo or video then.
Thanks for the tips riddler. I haven’t try upload video or photo to Facebook via email before
great help… thanks
What is the e-mail address you send to in order to do this? I can’t log on to facebook to find this out since the website is blocked.
Hi. You need to login to Facebook first in order to grab the email address. Each Facebook account has its own unique email to send to.
I used to have this! But then one day when I changed my password it just STOPPED and now I can’t find my own personalized email! Its not on the mobile sight.. and I tried getting an activation code but it never sent me one! ):
Try to reset your Facebook password.