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Facebook updates and events
If you and your stored contacts have Facebook accounts and you linked to Facebook when you were creating
My Contact Card, you can easily check which of your contacts have updates that occurred in Facebook. The
types of Facebook updates include changes in profile information and status as well as new photos added to
the Facebook album.
You can also easily check which contacts have events that occur on the current day. The types of events include
the birthday and anniversary, if specified and stored on the contact details, as well as events that are created in
Facebook.
To check which contacts have Facebook updates and events
You can check for Facebook updates and events of contacts from one convenient location, which is on the
Updates and Events tab of the My Favorites screen.
On the Home screen, slide to the My Favorites tab and then tap All Contacts.
Tap the Updates and Events tab ( ).
If you haven’t linked your stored contacts to Facebook, the Updates and Events tab will show a Link
Profiles option. Tap this option, choose which contacts you want to link to Facebook, and then tap Next.
On the Link Profiles window, select or clear the Facebook information that you want to link, and then tap
Done.
In the Updates list, when you tap a contact who has only one type of Facebook update, Opera Mobile
opens and brings you to your Facebook site where you can view details of the contact’s Facebook
update.
When you tap a contact who has multiple Facebook updates, the Contact Details screen opens and
displays the Updates and Events tab of this contact. See “To check a single contact’s Facebook updates
and events” for details.
In the Events list, tap a contact to send a greeting via a text message to the contact or view the contact
details. If an event is a Facebook event, tap it to open Opera Mobile and view information about that
event.
Indicates that you have an
invitation for an event in
Facebook. Tap Me to open
Opera Mobile and access
your Facebook site so you can
choose to accept or decline
the invitation.
Lists contacts who
have events on the
current day.
Displays you and the
contacts who have
updates in Facebook.
Notes • To manually refresh and display the latest Facebook updates, tap Menu > Update Now.
• To enable the Facebook updates to be refreshed automatically, tap
Menu > Data Connection Setting and then
select the Download data automatically. The refresh is not instant. Your device checks from Facebook in a fixed
time period.
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