Tag: messenger
You May Be Missing Private Messages on Facebook If You Aren’t Looking in These Two Places
Did you know that you have three separate message inboxes on Facebook? And that Facebook only notifies you about messages in one of them?
Mark Zuckerberg Announces that Facebook Will Now Be All About Privacy and Unified Messaging Across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger
In 2010 Mark Zuckerberg (in)famously announced that “Privacy was no longer the social norm.” That was when Facebook reset (relaxed) the privacy settings for all of their users. So the Internet sat up and took notice when yesterday Mark Zuckerberg said “I believe we should be working towards a world where people can speak privately and live freely knowing that their information will only be seen by who they want to see it.”
How to Archive or Get Rid of a Facebook Private Message Now that Facebook Removed the Option in Messenger
While ‘archive’ had always been an option previously, now the only options for dealing with a received message in the Facebook Messenger app are ‘Mark as Unread’, ‘Ignore Messages’, blocking the sender, or deleting the message. Ignoring the message is the closest message option to archiving it, however that moves the message to “Message Requests”, which is not at all what you want to do.
You Can be Easily Stalked through Facebook Messenger Even if You Don’t Have Messenger Yourself!
One of the things that Facebook did right was not allowing people to see whether you are logged into Facebook. Unfortunately, they completely undid that when they rolled out Facebook Messenger, and the newest versions of Facebook Messenger turn out to be a stalker’s dream.
How to Turn Off Emoji in iMessage and Instead Use Text Smiley Faces
Don’t you just hate it when you type a text smiley face such as :-) and your chat program insists on turning your text emoticon into a graphic emoji? Here’s how to turn off emoji in the Mac instant messenger program Messages (formerly known as iChat and iMessage), so that it will instead send and display text-based smiley and other faces.
How to Turn Off or Reject Incoming Calls in Facebook Messenger – Sort Of
Countless people are trying to figure out how to turn off incoming Facebook Messenger calls, or at least reject Freecall (the “feature” that allows people to call you through Facebook Messenger) calls. The bottom line is you can’t(!) BUT, there are things that you can do to make it seem, on your end, as if you have turned those annoying Freecall calls off.
How to Remove the Messenger Sidebar on Facebook
If you use Facebook you have probably seen the newest Messenger sidebar: a top to bottom right-hand column with the faces (profile pictures) of your friends who are on Facebook messenger. And, there’s a good chance you’ve tried to figure out how to remove or disable the Messenger sidebar, only to be frustrated by your efforts. So here is how to hide the Messenger sidebar column from Facebook.