Using the Home Screen 49
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 People screen.
1.On the Home screen, slide to the People tab and then tap All People.
2.Tap the Updates and Events tab ( 
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3.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.
4.In the Updates list, when you tap a contact who has only one type of Facebook update, Internet Explorer Mobile opens and brings you to your Facebook site where you can view details of the contact’s Facebook update.
5.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.
6.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 Internet Explorer Mobile and view information about that event.
Displays you and the contacts who have updates in Facebook.
Lists contacts who have events on the current day.
Indicates that you have an invitation for an event in Facebook. Tap Me to open Internet Explorer Mobile and access your Facebook site so you can choose to accept or decline the invitation.
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 phone checks from Facebook in a fixed time period.
