How to turn on notifications on Facebook and turn off email notifications?

[Ugolin]

-- I want to get notifications on the Facebook site when I log on but I don't want to get emails telling me that I got a notification. When I go to my "Notification Settings" where you tick the boxes for the notifications that you want to get, above the boxes is a little icon saying "Email" -- so are these little boxes for emails or for notifications you receive on the actual website (like the little pretty red numbers)??

-- Also I don't get notifications when somebody comments on a post I made on their wall. How can I get a notification telling me this???

Thank you
Hey thanks Kerri!! Too bad you can't manage your notifications anymore -- that's a bit of a pain. I'm sure they'll fix it sooner or later.

Thanks for your trouble!! Have a great day!

[Fevronia]

The answer to your first question is yes. If you want to modify your notifications go to your privacy settings and then down in the page where it says "edit your setting for applications games and websites" and see what you can change there. If you see the settings you will find what you are looking for. Hope i helped.

[KerriAyling]

The notification settings you mention with the "email" icon.... they're entirely email notifications, nothing to do with the red ones on your screen. You can turn them off by unchecking the boxes... and it's helpful to do that with most of the apps.... but just be careful when you're doing it because Facebook's own applications are among them... and they may contain useful notifications.... for example comments through Facebook's "Notes" "Video" "Links" "News Feed" apps.

The red notifications at the top of your screen can't be turned on or off. You used to be able to manage them, but not any more.

My personal opinion if you're not getting notified when someone comments on your wall posts is that it's a glitch probably due to heavy traffic through their servers. It happens to me too sometimes, I just shrug and let it go. Sometimes notifications arrive late, or out of order, or not at all and someone's comment takes me by surprise lol.

It must be an enormous task to tell 500 million people every time someone sneezes, I respect that.


If you're getting too many emails, do what I do with my hotmail acct.... make a folder called "Facebook" and have them automatically bounce there. They just accumulate, and I don't really care... I never look there UNLESS I want to know what someone said but they've deleted it... or unfriended me so I can't see their comments any more... then *gotcha* I have an email record of what was said.

Hope this helps. I'm off to empty my 50,000 facebook emails. Thanks for reminding me!!

Take care luvvie. xx