Facebook app question

[omegafix]

i have a samsung Stratosphere, and on my home screen when i get a email or a text message i get a top bar notification followed by a little number shows up over the home icon telling me how many texts/emails i got. is there a similar notification for facebook? i hate logging onto facebook and wasting data everytime i want to see whats going on during the day.

see pic for what m talking about

 

[chanchan05]

Well, you shouldn't log out of Facebook app at all if you don't want to miss anything. If you mean messages, the Facebook Messenger app works fine in this regard. But for notifications, you're out of luck. The Facebook app also has notification settings for this, although its a bit buggy.

You can use Friendcaster as an alternative app and the notifications and it works better than the default Facebook app.

However as for wasting data, Facebook can only check if you have notifications if it uses data, and having Facebook notifications uses up more data than logging in every now and then, because to get Facebook notifications, the app must go online every hour to check your account for new updates.