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Social networking

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account, you can use the pull-down menu to limit which
accounts are updated. If you don’t see a

Social Status

widget, flick your home screen left or right to check all
panels.

To add a

Social Status

widget:

1 Touch and hold an empty spot on your home screen

to open the Add to Home screen menu.

2 Touch Widgets > Social Status. The widget appears in

the empty spot and will show your status the next
time your phone updates from the network.

Add Accounts

You can add your

Facebook

,

MySpace

,

Twitter

, or other

accounts to your phone. If you don’t have accounts, you
can visit their Web sites to set them up.

Find it:

>

Account Settings > Add account

To sign into your account, use the user name or email
and password that you set up on that account (the same
as on your computer).

When you sign into social networking accounts, you’ll
see your friends and contacts in your

Contacts

list, and

your status and updates can appear in

Social Status

and

Happenings

widgets.

Twitter and MySpace messages

will always appear as

“read” on your phone, but your phone notifies you when

you receive a new message. MySpace marks your
messages as “read” online.

For email accounts

, see “Set Up Email” on page 18.

Tip:

To download updates faster, use “Wi-Fi” on page 31.

View Account Updates & Features

After you add a social networking account, you can see
and respond to friends’ updates with the

Happenings

widget on your home screen. If you don’t see one, set
one up in “Widgets” on page 22.

When you touch the

Happenings

widget to open an

update, you can touch on the social network’s icon to
open its Web site.

Note:

Your network or other factors might affect the

speed of widget updates.

Edit & Delete Accounts

Find it:

>

Account Settings

Touch and hold an account, then touch

Open account

to

edit it, or touch

Remove account

to remove it (along

with its contacts and messages).