Sending a message to our friends via Facebook is a very easy procedure, we will simply have to open the menu, choose who we will send the message to, write it and send it.
This task being so simple , our message center is often disorganized and causes us to lose control of our conversations that we have in the social network tray. This is why it is necessary to delete messages at the same time or delete them one by one.
In this article we will show you the different ways that exist to delete all messages from Facebook at the same time as well as talk about extensions in browsers to eliminate conversations, and the risks in which we can fall with the use of this kind of tools.
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Is it possible to delete all Facebook messages at once?
For some years now, Facebook does not allow us to eliminate all the private conversations we have in our account at once. In its replacement it offers us the possibility of deleting messages one by one.
Explain from the social network, that this is due to improve the user experience and also protect its privacy. There were many cases in which the owner of an account accidentally deleted all conversations instead of a specific one, causing large losses.
In conclusion, with this we tell you that we cannot delete Facebook messages at once as for we have to use an extension in the browser.
Is it safe to use extensions to delete conversations massively in FB ?
The extensions in our browsers are programs that need certain permissions that we have to grant them to be able to perform the tasks we are needing from them. Without these permissions, they cannot be installed or cannot fulfill their tasks efficiently.
That is, in this way we are providing valuable information for applications that can use this data for malicious actions such as accessing our information, obtaining data from our family and friends, or simply knowing our preferences and then offering advertisements directly related to us.
While it is true that many times when we install these extensions do not have any malware or adware, there is also the possibility that when they are updated, they can incorporate malicious files or spies.
Therefore, the risk that our privacy runs when we install these extensions is high and more when they are applications oriented to a social network as popular as Facebook , where we have exposed all our data.
Steps to delete all messages received in your Facebook account
There are two ways to delete private messages from Facebook, one is through the official social network platform itself, and the other is with the installation of an extension in our Chrome browser.
Next, we will detail each of these alternatives:
From Facebook
If we need to delete the entire list of messages at once through our Facebook account we can only do so when we choose one by one .
For this we will enter Facebook from our computer and follow these steps:
- We click on the top right of our screen in trustedMessages for
- Select “See all”
- At this moment we will see a list of all the conversations we have had with our friends on the social network
- We choose the conversation we want to delete
- And click on «Tools» that is to the right of each conversation represented by a gear
- We choose «Delete messages»
- We click on each message we want to delete
- We select the option clearlyEliminate accoun
If we have the application open on our mobile device we will perform these steps to be able to delete Facebook messages:
- We go to «Chats»
- We select the conversation we want to delete
- conversation, for this we keep pressed the photo of our contact or directly in the message
- We choose the option “Delete”
- We click on “Delete for me”
- Select the “Delete” option and click on it
With an extension
We can delete the entire list of Facebook messages through an application that we have to install in our browser.
In order to perform this task we will follow the guide that we will show you step by step:
- We open our Facebook account
- We go to the top right
- We click on «More» , represented with three points
- We choose the option «More tools»
- Then we click on «Extensions»
- on the left panel we choose the option «More extensions»
- We will write in the search bar «Facebook delete all messages»
- A list will appear with all the extensions we can use
- We click on the first option
- Choose «Add to Chrome»
- We click on «Add extension»
- At this moment we go to our personal profile
- We select the option messages or «Messenger »
- Select « See all »
- We go to the upper right of the screen to where the extension icon that we have just installed will appear
- We click on it and choose the option «Open your menssages»
- We will have the option to delete some messages or delete all. As we are dealing with deleting all messages, we will click on «Delete all messages»
- We choose the option perceivedAccept for
Is it possible to recover deleted conversations from Facebook? How do I do it?
If we want to recover the conversations we have deleted, we can do it this way:
- We open our Facebook account
- We go to the top right in «Messages»
- We click on « More »
- Next, we choose the option « Others » and click on it
- We look for the option « Archived » and we select it
- A list will appear with all the conversations that we have archived or directly abandoned
- We choose which one we need to restore
- We click on «Actions»
- And we choose the option «Unarchive»
These steps we have taken are used when we have archived the messages or directly abandoned them in the middle of the conversation. If we had deleted the message directly we could not retrieve it.
Another situation is that we have deleted directly with an extension in the browser, in this case we can not recover it , so we will have to be very careful when deciding to delete private messages.