SMS GupShup, a social messaging platform in India announced on Saturday that it is working with Facebook. The plan is to enable Indian Facebook users to go mobile through SMS GupShup’s messaging platform. Indians will now be able to take Facebook with them, wherever they go by simple SMS. It will be possible for Indian Facebook to update their status, receive status updates and message friends using SMS. Also wall posts will instantly reflect in their SMS inbox. SMS GupShup will provide the underlying messaging infrastructure to rapidly and reliably deliver the high volume of incoming and outgoing messages between users and Facebook. “We are very excited to work with SMS GupShup, given their experience with both mobile messaging and social media in India”, said Henri Moissinac, Director of Mobile, Facebook.

You can activate Facebook on your mobile device by visiting www.facebook.com/mobile.