# Why are Facebook comments now being forwarded to me as text messages? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 17, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389 "2016-02-17T23:46:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389/1 "2016-02-17T23:46:01Z")
What happened that all of a sudden Facebook messages to threads that I have commented in are now being forwarded to my phone as text messages? How did this suddenly start happening? Googling, I see that if I text “off” to 32665 this should stop it. The thing is I never (to my knowledge) opted into this in the first place. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389/2 "2016-02-18T00:16:35Z")
Go to Settings\>Notifications (on the left side, on my computer)\>Mobile and turn that setting off. How it would get turned on by itself, I don’t know, but I’d start by checking that setting. If it’s already set to off, then I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389/3 "2016-02-18T00:22:02Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Go to Settings\>Notifications (on the left side, on my computer)\>Mobile and turn that setting off. How it would get turned on by itself, I don’t know, but I’d start by checking that setting. > If it’s already set to off, then I don’t know. Sorry. I don’t understand this. ---
**Author:** ![pidgeon92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@pidgeon92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pidgeon92)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389/4 "2016-02-18T00:40:06Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Sorry. I don’t understand this. Using your computer browser, go to Facebook. On the upper/right you should see a small drop-down arrow. Click on it, and choose SETTINGS from the menu. On the left, you should then see an option that says MOBILE. Click on that, and you should see an option to DE-ACTIVATE TEXT MESSAGING. (on mine, there is an option to ACTIVATE TEXT MESSAGING, which I have never done, and would never, ever want to do.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389/5 "2016-02-18T00:55:24Z")
> [@pidgeon92](#): > > Using your computer browser, go to Facebook. > > On the upper/right you should see a small drop-down arrow. Click on it, and choose SETTINGS from the menu. > > On the left, you should then see an option that says MOBILE. Click on that, and you should see an option to DE-ACTIVATE TEXT MESSAGING. (on mine, there is an option to ACTIVATE TEXT MESSAGING, which I have never done, and would never, ever want to do.) Thanks. Mobile settings\>Facebook messages Changed Text me: “When someone sends me a Message on web or mobile” to “Never.” How in the fuck this ever got changed, I have no idea, since, as you can tell, I quite ignorant about these settings. I’ll see how it goes now. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389/6 "2016-02-18T00:57:23Z")
You can get to this same setting on your phone as well. I don’t have an iPhone but on my Android I pulled up the FB app Click the top left icon (looks like a person with three lines next to it) Click [Name] View Your Profile Click the thee dots that are to the right of Update Info and Activity Log A box will pop up, click View Privacy Shortcuts Click More Settings Notifications Mobile Make sure everything says Turn On (which means it’s turned off), if anything says “Turn Off” click it. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389/7 "2016-02-18T01:09:55Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > You can get to this same setting on your phone as well. I don’t have an iPhone but on my Android I pulled up the FB app > Click the top left icon (looks like a person with three lines next to it) > Click [Name] View Your Profile > Click the thee dots that are to the right of Update Info and Activity Log > A box will pop up, click View Privacy Shortcuts > Click More Settings > Notifications > Mobile > Make sure everything says Turn On (which means it’s turned off), if anything says “Turn Off” click it. Thanks **Joey**. They were all off. What a labyrinth of controls! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389/8 "2016-02-18T01:19:05Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Thanks **Joey**. They were all off. What a labyrinth of controls! The instructions I gave earlier and these ones were the same, so if you turned it off once, it would (still) be off the second time. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-facebook-comments-now-being-forwarded-to-me-as-text-messages/746389/9 "2016-02-18T07:16:44Z")
Facebook has a weird habit of turning things on that were never turned on before. I’ve gotten email alerts I had turned off turned back on again. Seems to me that they would realize that text alerts are never useful for almost anyone who has a smartphone and the Facebook app. Since 1G is dead, you always have data if you have texts. (The "almost"s are for someone who uses the app only on Wi-fi and disables it on data, or even doesn’t actually have data. But surely that’s uncommon enough that they should have to opt in.)