Where is the Facebook "Notifications" page?

When I connect to Facebook I get these delightful "notifications" that people have added comments to my status, left comments following my own comments on photos, etc. Nice. But every time I click to learn more about ONE of the status updates, I then lose the page that has all the status update notifications and can't find it again. Where the heck IS this crazy page in Facebook if there are no new notifications to make it appear on the home page???

Dave's Answer:

Oh, man! I know exactly what you're talking about. I get tripped up with this each time I connect to Facebook too, and it drives me bonkers!

The problem is that Facebook tries to be smart and instead of it recording a notification as new until you view the related page, it only records it as new until you view the notifications summary page itself. Hence them all being marked as not-new once you've visited the page, even if you wanted to go back and see some of the additional notifications you'd received.

My workaround is to simply open each notification target page in a separate tag by doing a Cmd-click rather than just clicking on each. (by "notification target page" I mean the page that has the status comments or the photo page with the comments, etc, not the notifications summary page itself). It works, but I'd say it's not optimal.

Fortunately, after a bit of digging, I figured out exactly where the notifications page vanishes once you no longer have new updates to bring it onto the home page.

First off, here's what you're probably used to seeing on the top right of your Facebook page:

You click on it and get to a list of notifications, including those that are new, which are denoted with a little blue circle on the left:

facebook new notifications commented status

To find this page without having any new status updates, you need to, rather unintuitively, go to your mailbox first (click on "View Message Inbox"):

Then once you're there, you need to click on the "Notifications" tab:

Finally, here are the same list of notifications, but they're no longer marked as new (notice the little blue circle has vanished from each when you compare this screen capture to the earlier one):

Now you know where to find the list, I hope you can ensure that you keep up-to-date on all the status update notifications, photo comment notifications, group event notifications, etc etc etc that you receive!

What's that? Looking for more help? You're in luck. I'd also like to let you know that I have quite a bit of Facebook help here on the site and that I also have an Ask Dave Taylor Facebook Fan Page that I invite you to join.

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Categorized: Facebook Help (Article 8572, Written by Dave Taylor)
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Reader Comments To Date: 8

Renee said, on November 3, 2008 8:22 PM:

Hi,
I just joined facebook a couple days ago and I decided to check out Barak Obama's facepage - heard something about it on one of the political channels - and Now I have a virus and can't do a thing on facebook.
Here it is: it comes up as "web shield alert" the the file name is:
static.ak.fbcdn/net/rsrc/php/%ZWE/lpg/2zdxj7qd/en_US/141/129616/js5ucq7xy 47q4g04c0.pkg.js

Help! this is a work computer and I can't seem to fix it??
Thanks Renee

morton said, on June 9, 2009 10:48 AM:

My mom has a whole list of notifications resulting from a Scrabble page. Once she has handled the notification, how can she delete it, but without canceling future notifications?

Luke Nicholas said, on June 21, 2009 2:05 AM:

Hey,
I check my email inbox and it tells me I have facebook comments and wallposts etc, but when I sign on there are no notifications.
The email is correct but I have to search through every photo to find the relevant comment.
And I have selected on settings that I should recieve notifications for wall posts and comments etc.
So I really have no idea how to make them come back again.
Thankyou,
Luke

Leah said, on January 24, 2010 12:47 PM:

Hey, this no longer works now. When you check the inbox page, notifications is no longer there. I cant seem to get to the notifications page because there are too much notifications. I cant click on see all to get to there. Do you know what the url is for this?

RitaFricano said, on December 28, 2010 6:24 AM:

My Facebook page is "gone". I cannot open or find it. However, my daughter can open it from her computer. Can you tell me how I can get it back?
When I go to the Facebook page, it tells me "hello would you like to join facebook".
HELP

Dave Taylor said, on December 28, 2010 8:13 AM:

Sounds like you were accidentally logged out, Rita. Just log in again by filling in the account and password information on the top right of that page.

sarah said, on February 24, 2011 12:26 PM:

hey,

i'm using facebook mobile on my blackberry, and it says i have notifications, i can view them all on my computer, but when i go to view my status comments through my notifications on my phone, it comes up that it cannot retrieve the information, please try later.

I try later, but it does the same thing. And i can view everything else, and everyone else's updates, but im having no luck with my status updates! help!!

Sayyed Anees said, on July 27, 2012 1:49 AM:

when i joined facebook that time i could get facebook page's notification on my cellphone via sms but not now facebook page's notification has been stopped automatically so plz tell me how can i get facebook fan page's notification on my mobile via sms ????

I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!

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Where is the Facebook "Notifications" page?

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