If you’re like most people, you use Facebook Messenger to communicate with friends and family. But there are a few things you can do to make sure that your conversations stay private and unrecorded. Here’s how:
- Disable notifications for people in your conversation. This will stop them from being notified when you add them as a friend or share a message.
- Block people from seeing your conversation history. This will prevent them from seeing what messages and conversations you have had with other people.
- Disable group chat features in Messenger. This will prevent other people from joining your conversation without first asking you permission.
While you can block someone completely on Facebook, it’s a pretty dramatic measure. Essentially, your Facebook account will cease to exist for them. If you’re just trying to get a bit of a break, you can unfriend them or block them from sending you Facebook Messages so they can’t contact you privately. Here’s how.
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On the Website
Open up a chat with the person you want to block.
Click on the Gear icon in the top right and select Block Messages…
Click Block Messages again and they won’t be able to contact you.
To unblock them, just click the Gear icon and then Unblock.
On the Facebook Messenger App
Open the chat with the person you want to block and tap on their name at the top of the screen.
Tap Block and then change the Block Messages toggle to on.
To unblock them, just flip the Block Messages toggle back to off.
