Facebook is a social network that many users enjoy to keep in touch with their family, friends and loved ones. But, who has not had one of those friends, who seem to have all the free time in the world, who do not stop sending you messages. You may have thought of blocking him, but you feel sorry or worried about “what he will say.” Today we explain how you can stop receiving his constant messages through Facebook Messenger without having to block him or stop being his friend on this social network.
How to mute notifications in Messenger?
Before explaining how you can stop receiving any message through a conversation with that person through Facebook chat, we want to give you a less drastic and equally functional option.
If you are concerned that in the meantime something important is missing from this user, you can choose to silence their notifications . This will make the chat with him continue within your list of conversations, you continue to receive these messages and they accumulate but, yes, you do not receive any type of notification that comes from this conversation. To do this it is as simple as:
- Open the Facebook Messenger app on your phone and search for the conversation with that person.
- Swipe this chat from right to left. Here you will see 3 options that are displayed. Click on the bell .
- In this panel that has appeared, it gives us the option to silence notifications for a certain time or, if you wish, uninterruptedly .
From now on, this person will be able to send you all the messages they want without being disturbed by the typical Messenger sound or a floating window. In the event that you want to do this from the web version with your computer, it will be as simple as:
- Find the conversation with that user.
- Click on their name to display the chat settings .
- Select the “mute conversation” option to achieve the same result in the Web version of Facebook Messenger.
How to ignore a conversation in Messenger
In the event that you are determined to completely stop receiving messages from this user, you should know that he will not be able to realize that he is being ignored and, furthermore, you will not see any of his constant messages within your usual list . But, yes, if this person sends you message after message without receiving any response, obviously they should understand that something strange is happening. On the other hand, the chat with that “heavy” friend will not disappear, but will be stored in another place out of your sight, but we will talk more about this later.
To ignore the conversation of a specific person within the Facebook Messenger app , you just have to follow the following steps:
- Access the conversation with that user from your mobile.
- Once inside, click on the username of this person to display the settings for this conversation.
- Now, from this new menu, you will see the option to “Ignore messages” . Press it to activate this feature.
- Finally, in the pop-up text, confirm your decision by clicking on “Ignore”.
From now on, any message you receive from this person will not only not bother you with sounds or pop-ups, but you will not even see it in your Messenger conversation lists. The process from the desktop version is identical to that of silencing, but in this case, you must click on “Ignore messages” . It’s that simple to ignore that heavy friend that we all have on this social network.
How to disable ‘ignore messages’ on Facebook
If after a while you regret having ignored this person and want to deactivate this option , you should know that it is tremendously simple. You just have to follow the following steps both through the mobile phone Messenger app or from the desktop version itself:
- Click on the conversation search engine as you normally would to start a new chat.
- Enter the username of that person you “blocked” at the time. Click on his profile to access the conversation.
- Once here, and on the writing box to send messages, you will see that Facebook itself tells us that if we want to stop ignoring this person we will only have to send them a message.
And voila, we will be able to receive messages from our friend on this social network again and everything will be as at the beginning, yes, we will once again be a prey to his constant messages on Facebook Messenger.
