Getting Facebook Notifications Outside Facebook With MyStatusBar

Note: MyStatusBar is no longer available.

Many of you spend long hours every day on Facebook to keep up with your friends’ activities, but who has got the time these days to stick to just one website? It would be helpful to check on updates, although you are on a different website, doing your work or assignments.

There are several alternatives to get Facebook updates without opening the website, one of them is by using the RockMelt browser, but many people are more than comfortable with Chrome and Firefox already.

In this quick guide, we will show you how you can skip the website and still get to check real-time Facebook updates and notifications with the MyStatusBar extension, available for Google Chrome.

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Facebook Notification with myStatusBar

If you are already on Chrome, go to the MyStatusBar download page and install the extension.

When the installation is completed, you will be redirected to the MyStatusBar homepage; click on the Login to Facebook button at the bottom left of the page.

Click Log in with Facebook.

Click Allow to allow MyStatusBar access to your Facebook account.

Now, you will see MyStatusBar appear at the bottom of your browser with your Facebook notification updates in real time.

On a closer look, you will see this;

Conclusion

Now, you don’t have to worry about having to open your Facebook account every time you want to check your updates. MyStatusBar has made it easier for you to be notified of updates without opening up your Facebook.