Why doesn’t Facebook send me e-mail messages when my friends post on the site?
Over the years, Facebook has cut down on the amount of e-mail messages it sends to its members, particularly the ones who visit the site frequently throughout the day and see notifications on screen anyway when logged into their accounts. If you do not visit the site as much, you may see more messages describing the things your friends are doing on Facebook. Messages from Facebook include an Unsubscribe link, so you may have clicked on it at some point and stopped certain e-mail notifications.
You can adjust the amount of notification messages you get from Facebook in your account settings. To do so, click on the gear-shaped Settings icon on the right side of your Facebook page and select Account Settings. On the left side of the Account Settings page, click Notifications and in the Notifications settings next to Email, click Edit.
Here, you can choose to get all notifications by e-mail or just the “important ones,†like when a friend tags you in a photo. You can also skip all friend-based notifications and just get the ones related to account security and privacy. If your settings are configured to get a lot of notification mail and you are still not getting the messages, a spam filter, either on your mail program or your Internet provider’s server, may be blocking delivery.
