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Not able to receive Facebook chat messages
If you are logged in to Facebook I think you should see (having scrolled down) something like:
The 'gear box' is the one labelled Options in the image and you would need to select it and Turn on chat....
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How can I stop Messenger bolding from putting * around text?
Just simply wrap the word around backtick symbol (`)
Like, write
It will give you your expected output.
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How can I change the preview image when sharing a link on Facebook?
Facebook uses meta tags on the page you're sharing to determine which image, title, and description to show when posting a link. The meta tag syntax follows Facebook's OpenGraph specification.
The ...
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If a deactivated user re-activates his Facebook account, will he receive messages sent while deactivated?
No, once an account is deactivated it will not receive any message. After reactivating it will store only that data what all were present before deactivating.
When an account is deactivated it will ...
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How to delete conversation with someone on Facebook, both from my inbox and from his inbox?
From Facebook Help Center:
No, sent messages can't be unsent or removed from the person's inbox. Depending on the persons's notification settings, they may also receive your message as an email ...
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How to enable notifications for Facebook Message Requests?
https://www.facebook.com/help/936247526442073 subtly indicates you must check this special box manually.
It Facebook's forums, their authorized personnel directly stated it:
https://www.facebook.com/...
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How can one show as "active" in Facebook Messenger if it's not installed?
If she has the chat open in Facebook website (on a pc perhaps) then you can see her as active in messenger even though she doesn't have the messenger app.
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How to do bold and italic formatting in Facebook Chat
This is what Facebook officially says
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║ Format │ Example │ Instructions ...
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How to appear offline on Facebook, to all but one person?
Turn off chat for all contacts except that person.
Here you go:
Login to Facebook
Click on Options (gear icon) in the chat section, on the bottom right side
Select Turn Off Chat
Select Turn off chat ...
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List of people who have added me on Messenger, and I haven't accepted yet
From your screenshot I am assuming your are talking about Facebook Messenger app.
Please see following screenshot from the desktop app of pending message requests:
For your mobile app view the ...
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How do I un-ignore a conversation in Facebook Messenger?
Search for group by name. It’ll show up at the bottom. When you open the group it’ll have buttons for “reply” or “delete”. Reply rejoins.
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What make messages to Facebook page not delivered?
From Facebook Help Center:
When your message is delivered, it will be marked as sent. If your message fails to send, you'll see a message saying that it didn't go through and you'll have the option ...
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How do I unignore a message in Facebook Messenger?
It doesn't seem to be possible unless you reply to the user you ignored. According to WikiHow:
The only way to unignore someone on Messenger is to reply to the conversation in the Spam folder. ...
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How to view full results for a Facebook Messenger poll
I found I could get who voted for each option by opening the poll in the iPhone app. I assume that also works on Android.
This provides one way for some peole to see "who voted for the roles"...
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How to do bold and italic formatting in Facebook Chat
Here are the 3 known text formatting ways on Facebook.
*This is Bold*
_This is italic_
~This is Strikethrough~
`This will write Consolas font-style and disable the text formatting inside it`
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Why does Facebook show last login of some friends and doesn't show that in others?
I believe it is because there is a time frame set automatically. From what I have noticed is that if someone has been off chat after the 24 hour mark, the time automatically stops accumulating. The ...
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Does Facebook Messenger automatically mark messages as seen after a while?
I doubt that's the case, it doesn't mark them as read automatically. They might have opened it my mistake or they might be plain lying to you
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Am I blocked by a friend on Messenger when I can't view their profile?
Probably your friend has deactivated his/her account but still using Messenger.
Anyone can deactivated his/her Facebook account and keep using Messenger.
To test the Blocking scenario, try to send ...
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How can I create "friendmoji's" - dual Bitmoji images with 2 people in the same image?
There are several ways to create Bitmoji's, although only a few of them appear to support Friendmoji's to date (and they are not well-documented).
Both users will likely need to have created a ...
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Facebook messages cannot be read on email anymore
Yes, Facebook has discontinued displaying conversations messages in email notifications and that's kind of disappointing for many users.
Does Facebook provide an option to revert this?
Not as of ...
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What does the time displayed in Facebook chat mean?
Personally, I don't generally see those when I am logged into Facebook via browser; but I know what you are talking about and it is definitely not in regard to how long a person was active at any ...
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Facebook Messenger and when a message has "just you" next to it
"Just You" means that someone has messaged themselves in a chat conversation. It can be used to keep things for reference.
I used to message myself on Facebook to send links to my computer from my ...
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How to edit predefined questions to Facebook page in Messenger?
Yes. Go to "Settings" of your FB page, then click "Messaging".
Scroll to "Help people start a conversation with your Page" and click change.
The questions are there and you can edit/delete/add.
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Facebook Messenger unspam conversation
Go to the app-version of messenger. Click the chat head in the left upper corner with your own image. A menu appears. Choose message requests. You come to a folder separated in two categories. Choose ...
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Is it possible to login to Facebook From Facebook messenger?
No it's not possible. You will have to login again using the main Facebook app.
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Is it possible to see my deleted messages on Facebook Messenger?
From Facebook Help Center:
No, you can't retrieve deleted messages or conversations. Deleting a message permanently removes it from your inbox.
Keep in mind that deleting a message or conversation ...
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"This group has members, whose messages you've ignored." Is there a way to disable this popup?
I did have to message that person on our individual chat, in order to get them to be "un-ignored".
I read that was the way to fix the problem.
Then I thought that would help the group chat, so I wasn'...
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How to receive email notification of new Facebook messages (2021)
I went and looked in the usual place where we would set notifications for our email and indeed it seems Messenger option isn't present. There was another question asked how to enable on it, and ...
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Is there some way of editing a Facebook Messenger message?
Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to unsend the message (as long as they haven't read it already) and send a new message.
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How can I fix it so that only friends can send me message on Facebook?
There is no direct setting to set only for friends as of now. Here is what you can do:
Go to your profile
Click on top right "Quick Help" (?)
Click on "who can contact me" option
Set "Friends of ...
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