Progress gave us the greatest invention - the Internet. For example, thanks to the social network Facebook, you can contact your friends or relatives who are in another country. However, sometimes it is necessary that extra eyes do not see correspondence. How to delete messages on Facebook? Consider below.
Regular deletion
The easiest way to delete messages on Facebook is standard. Deletion occurs as follows:
- First you need to go to your page through a browser or application on your mobile device.
- Then select the "Messages" tab from the menu on the left. We open the correspondence in which you want to delete. Then there are two ways. The first is to delete messages one at a time, that is, open each one, press the "Delete" button. The second way is to select the "Delete messages" item in the "Actions" menu. Opposite the messages that you want to delete, put a tick, click "Delete".
Move toarchive
These methods take a lot of time and are not very convenient. In addition, it is worth noting that Facebook has an interesting feature. When you delete a message by clicking on the "Delete Conversation" button, it is completely destroyed.
And if you use the "X" button, then the correspondence is moved to the archive. And they will be restored again if the interlocutor sends you something.
Deleting with an extension
Accordingly, the question arises: how to delete messages on Facebook so that forever and without much straining? Fortunately, there is a way.
First of all, we note that this method is suitable for users of the Chrome browser. With the Facebook Fast Delete Messages extension, you can delete messages with a single click.
You can add an extension to Chrome on the extensions page. After installation, it will automatically activate. Now there is no need to open every message. To permanently delete individual messages or dialogs, just click on one of the buttons located in the top toolbar, or the button marked in red.
Recovering deleted messages
After the first part of the article, it became clear how to delete messages on Facebook. There are also cases when you just need to restore accidentally deleted files.messages. To the delight of many, such methods also exist.
And then the question arises: how to do this? How to recover deleted messages on Facebook? Recall that when you delete a message using the "X" button, the messages are sent to the archive. Therefore, the easiest and most logical step is to try to find them there.
To do this, you need to go to your Facebook profile on a computer or other device using a browser or mobile application. In the left menu, open the "Messages" tab, then click on the "View All" button, which is located at the bottom of the list. A panel will appear on the right, where next to the Inbox folder, as well as Others, there is a More tab.
After clicking on this item, the "Archive" button will appear. In it, many will find for themselves a lot of old messages that were deleted, perhaps a very long time ago.
Delete messages from the other party
So, we figured out how to delete messages in your profile on Facebook. However, sometimes this is not enough. After all, often sent messages are intended for another person or should not be sent at all. And therefore, further it will be considered how to delete messages from the interlocutor on Facebook.
And here, too, there are several options. The simplest, but not suitable for everyone, is to ask the interlocutor to delete messages without reading them. This method is only suitable for those who trust and know that a person will definitely not read the message.
The next way is to go to the interlocutor's account and get rid of what is unnecessary or not thereintended for this person. This option is also not for everyone. After all, few people have passwords from the pages on the social network of their friends or relatives. And if, nevertheless, there is such an opportunity, then you should take care of security and use an anonymizer. This program will help you stay anonymous by providing a proxy server from another country.
Finally, two more methods that work. They are associated with spam. First you need to try to mark the interlocutor's messages as spam. This method does not give a 100% guarantee, as the machine determines if it is spam. A special program, after complex calculations, makes a conclusion about the recognition of the interlocutor as a spammer. If she decides that this is the case, then the message will be automatically deleted.
The last method is to become a spammer yourself. After discovering that the message should not have been sent, more messages are sent in pursuit. You can get by with simple messages with various, randomly typed characters. But it is better if it will be a lot of messages with links to various sites. They are exactly what the spam filter does not like. As a rule, after that the message is permanently deleted.
