Help with Facebook post notifications

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Davina40Davina40 Forumite
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When I read an interesting post and click on "Turn on notifications for this post" I don't get any notifications (by this I mean in the bell icon).

I've gone to settings/notifications and turned on everything but this hasn't worked. It's the same on Android and on desktop. I've tried deleting/reinstalling the app but this didn't work.

I still get some notifications e.g. memories, a friend sharing a post. 

Can anyone help? 

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  • J_BJ_B Forumite
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    It's facebook, it has a mind of it's own, get used to it!  :D

    A post about tanning lotion keeps popping up in my newsfeed, despite me blocking it!

    Go figure!
  • Neil_JonesNeil_Jones Forumite
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    If you comment on a post, post notifications will automatically be turned on. If you turn on notifications for a post, you'll get notified whenever someone comments on the post. You won't get notified when someone replies to a comment.

    So in other words:

    ... I'm a post!  <-- if somebody replies to this you get a notification.
    ......I'm a reply to the first post <-- you'd get notification of this as it is a reply to the first post.
    .........I'm a reply to a reply <-- you wouldn't get a notification of this.
    ............I'm a reply to a reply to a reply <-- you wouldn't ge a notification of this.
    ......I'm a 2nd reply to the first post <-- you'd get notification of this.

    Basically:  If somebody replies to anything other than the original post, you don't get notified.
  • Davina40Davina40 Forumite
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    Thanks for the replies. The problem though is that I'm not getting notifications for the replies to a post. As an example, I clicked "turn on notifications for this post" to a post on a popular group at 21:40 and there have been several replies (and replies to replies and replies to replies to replies) since but I've had no notifications at all. As I said, I turned on everything I could find so in theory I should be getting push notifications, email notifications, and SMS notifications. But, nada.

  • J_BJ_B Forumite
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    Some people just type F (short for following perhaps?) as a comment ... does that then notify you?
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