Facebook messages- deletion?

joe8 · Jan 16, 2019

Does anyone here have experience with Facebook? Is it possible to delete a message you've sent on Messenger a few days ago (meaning, the message will be deleted from your inbox, as well as from the recipient's inbox), if it hasn't yet been marked as read by the recipient?

I've read about a method where you mark the message you sent as spam, then delete it, then deactivate your account for approximately 3-4 hours, or 3-5 days (according to some sources). But there might be unintended consequences to doing that- Facebook might give you a warning for sending spam, or do something else.

NeoCverA · Jan 16, 2019

Oh snap! What did you do!?

theMot · Jan 16, 2019

He told joe7 he wants to have his babies but wants to delete it before joe4 finds out.

Setherial · Jan 17, 2019

joe8 said:
Does anyone here have experience with Facebook? Is it possible to delete a message you've sent on Messenger a few days ago (meaning, the message will be deleted from your inbox, as well as from the recipient's inbox), if it hasn't yet been marked as read by the recipient?

I've read about a method where you mark the message you sent as spam, then delete it, then deactivate your account for approximately 3-4 hours, or 3-5 days (according to some sources). But there might be unintended consequences to doing that- Facebook might give you a warning for sending spam, or do something else.

Why would you want to do something like that?

joe8 · Jan 17, 2019

Setherial said:
Why would you want to do something like that?

Well, it's possible, although unlikely, that they haven't read the message yet. I would assume they could have read the whole incoming message in Facebook Messenger, without having it be marked as having been read? I haven't figured out yet how you do that, though. You can see the first few words of a message, in the side column on Messenger, without opening it.

Gog · Jan 17, 2019

Simply delete your entire Facebook account. Job done.

Setherial · Jan 17, 2019

Gog said:
Simply delete your entire Facebook account. Job done.

Quite radical, but it is a solution to a certain extend. The other can still see the message, but not respond.

oliverclaude · Jan 17, 2019

Setherial said:
The other can still see the message, ...

That's what he's trying to avoid. But what was it? What have you done joe8? What? What just popped in there? Did you sent her a pic of a harmless thing? Something you loved from your childhood? Something that could never, ever possibly destroy your relationship? Oh, shit. It was your Stay Puft Marshmallow Man...

Late · Jan 17, 2019

Drunk messages are best messages.

Heinz · Jan 17, 2019

Quick Joe8! back to the gum tree's!

Claudia Schiffer · Jan 17, 2019

message to a lady friend?

wyo · Jan 17, 2019

If you cut and paste it here, it will be removed from Messenger. This is the only way.

LoneSage · Jan 17, 2019

Late said:
Drunk messages are best messages.

The best way I don't do drunk messages is to type them out and then remember, "I made a promise to my sober self to never send messages drunk."

lithy · Jan 17, 2019

PM rot

NeoSneth · Jan 17, 2019

Get a new name, move countries, teach ESL.

HDRchampion · Jan 17, 2019

Dude this is like the 8th time you done this...Time for new name Joe9.

@M · Jan 17, 2019

I just checked my Facebook account, replied to a message in Messenger, and, when I looked to the left of said message, and clicked on "..." there was an option to delete said message. I assume that's what you want? I also checked a several months old message, that I had sent to one of my younger sisters, about her wedding last August, and the delete option was available for that one too.

joe8 · Jan 17, 2019

M said:
I just checked my Facebook account, replied to a message in Messenger, and, when I looked to the left of said message, and clicked on "..." there was an option to delete said message. I assume that's what you want? I also checked a several months old message, that I had sent to one of my younger sisters, about her wedding last August, and the delete option was available for that one too.

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That method only deletes the message in your own inbox, not the other person's.

Syn · Jan 17, 2019

They're going to see your message.

Claim your account with messenger was hacked is about your only option.

Karou · Jan 17, 2019

they have restraining orders over there too?

Claudia Schiffer · Jan 17, 2019

joe8 said:
That method only deletes the message in your own inbox, not the other person's.

you do know that if they already used it for what they intended, wrote it down, or took screen shots it doesn't matter, right?

F4U57 · Jan 17, 2019

Been sending dick pics?

LoneSage · Jan 17, 2019

NeoSneth said:
Get a new name, move countries, teach ESL.

SOLID!

fake · Jan 17, 2019

Joe8 got mad because he had been using his boss' personal bathroom. The boss called him out in an office-wide memo. Joe8 FB messaged him, calling him an ego maniac and a laughing stock and then proclaiming that he quit. When Joe8 realized he didn't have any skills with which to get a new job, he realized he's going to need to delete that message.

LoneSage · Jan 17, 2019

If I ever have a child, one of the principles I will imprint onto them will be:

Never, never, never burn bridges.

It does nothing to gain you a net positive and everything to lose you something.

In this age of social media, don't delete or block friends...just block whatever they post.

It's a new world we live, best play by the rules because this isn't the Total Recall future where we can be...miners...on Mars...

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