How do you know when you've joined a faction?

2 days ago I joined Global Risk. I went to the factions page, clicked on choose a side, then click global risk, and clicked apply on the global risk page. it then said i was in the global risk faction. But I didn't know how (and am still not 100% sure) of how to get points for my faction. When I joined global risk, nothing happened, besides for the yellow writing saying i'm in global risk now. When I go back to the factions page, it still says choose a side and whatnot, and I can get back to the global risk page by doing what I did before. The factions page looks EXACTLY the same, even after I joined global risk.

So today I did the exact same thing that I did 2 days ago, I joined Global Risk, and it said that I joined global risk. So how exactly do I win points for my team, and how do I know for sure that I'm on the team?