How do I Inbox someone on FB?

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How do you inbox someone on Facebook who is not your friend?
What does it mean to inbox someone?
What is inbox on Facebook mean?

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This wikiHow teaches you how to open and view your Facebook messages inbox. You can do this in Facebook Messenger for mobile, as well as on the Facebook website on desktop.

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On mobile, open the Messenger app and log in if necessary. Click Home. This will take you to your inbox.
On your computer, log into Facebook and click the Messenger icon. Select See All in Messenger—this will take you to your inbox.
In both cases, new messages will be displayed at the top of your screen.

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Open Facebook Messenger. This app resembles a white lightning bolt on a blue background. Doing so will open your Facebook Messenger to the last tab you had open.
- If you aren't logged into Facebook messenger, enter your phone number and password to continue.
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Tap Home. It's a house-shaped tab in the bottom-left corner of the screen. This will take you to your inbox.
- If Messenger opens to a conversation, first tap the "Back" button in the top-left corner of the screen.
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Review your inbox. Your newest messages will be at the top of the screen, just above the "Active Now" row of contacts. Scrolling down the Home tab's contents will show you progressively older messages.

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Open Facebook. Go to https://www.facebook.com/ in your preferred web browser. This will open your Facebook News Feed if you're logged in.
- If you aren't logged in, enter your email address (or phone number) and password in the top-right side of the page.
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Click the Messenger icon. It's the lightning bolt-shaped icon in the top-right side of the Facebook page. Doing so will prompt a drop-down menu with your recent messages listed.
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Click See All in Messenger. This link is at the bottom of the drop-down menu. Clicking it takes you to your Messenger inbox.
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Review your inbox. You can scroll through conversations in the column on the left side of the page. Recent conversations are at the top of the column, while older conversations are toward the bottom.
- You can also click the gear icon in the upper-left corner of this page and then click Archived Threads in the drop-down menu to view archived messages.

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How do I message people on Facebook?

Click the message icon or click on a person's same to get an option to send a message.
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How can I check my messages if I can't install the messenger app?

You could also use Facebook and Messenger in any browser.
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I am using a laptop PC and gmail, and I don't own an iPhone. I opened a Facebook account, how do I comment?

You'll have to click on the message symbol in the right corner of the blue bar at the top. The message symbol is the one left of the earth symbol.

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You can also open Messenger from within the Facebook app by tapping the Messenger icon in the top-right corner of the screen.
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If you don't have the Facebook Messenger app on your mobile device, you can't check your messages inbox from within the Facebook app.
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1. Open Facebook Messenger.
2. Tap Home.
3. Review your inbox.

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Where is the inbox on Facebook?

Tap in the top right of Facebook. Tap Pages, then go to your Page. Tap Inbox at the top of the Page.

How do you inbox someone on Facebook who is not your friend?

Click either the “Send [Name] a Message” link (which you find on a person's profile below their picture) or the “Send a Message” link (which you find in search results). Whichever link you click, up pops the Compose Message box shown on Sending Messages to People You're Not (Yet) Friends With.

What does it mean to inbox someone?

/ˈɪn.bɒks/ to send someone a private message on social media: If you would like more information please inbox me back. When you meet, he tells you to inbox him on Facebook. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

What is inbox on Facebook mean?

Facebook Inbox - Facebook Tutorial Your inbox contains messages people have sent, any comments that have happened on your posts and general engagement on your page. You'll locate your inbox using the top menu, and it'll typically be next to the menu option page.