Facebook offers users integrated chat, email and text communications with an interface that provides easy access to sent messages. A primary benefit of Facebook’s messaging system is its archiving of your various communications. Facebook stores all communications indefinitely, unless you opt to delete a particular message or an entire message thread. You can look at all messages and threads you've sent to other Facebook users from your Facebook homepage.
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Log in to your Facebook account.
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Click the "Messages" icon and select “See All Messages” from the drop-down menu.
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Click the "Magnifying Glass" icon next to the Search Messages field. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Click “Sent Messages” from the drop-down menu. All of your sent messages will be displayed on the Sent Messages page.
References
- Facebook: How Do I View My Sent Messages?
Tips
- Protect your online privacy by making sure you log out of your Facebook account after viewing your sent messages.
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How would you feel if you lost out on business leads by not seeing a message, or your friends were feeling rejected by you…and you didn’t even realise?
Facebook Messenger may be doing this to you. And it happened to me.
I missed out hockey games, offers for things I was selling….and most importantly, messages about work where the sender thought I was ignoring them.
Quite often I say computers aren’t quite as smart as us humans in many circumstances. At the moment Facebook Messenger’s algorithm has a feature where it will filter out message requests from people who aren’t your Facebook friends. A common scenario for this is if you post of Facebook groups or elsewhere, and someone decides to message you directly…or someone who isn’t your friend on Facebook decides to message you there, instead of going and finding your phone number. (I’m still one of those old schoolers who tries to separate work and pleasure on Facebook…even though my Facebook feed is full of digital marketing discussions).
So, how do you find these missing messages?
You may have heard of the ‘Other’ folder where Facebook used to dump messages from unknown friends, however there’s another hidden source too. If you head to the Messenger app on your phone there’s just a few simple steps to perform.
The screenshots below were taken on Android, however Apple iPhones aren’t that different.
1. Click on the Cog at the top right to get the Settings
Click People.
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They won't know if you've seen the message until you reply, so no need to worry about looking rude if you choose not to respond.
Be careful though – once you ping them a message it'll connect your accounts so you can message one another as if you were Facebook friends.
To read the messages on desktop, load up the Facebook website on a browser.
Click the Messenger icon in the top right corner of the Facebook website.
For the uninitiated, that's the little speech bubble with a lightning bolt running through it.
Hit the "options" icon (three horizontal lines) and click "message requests".
Your requests are split into two categories: People Facebook thinks you might know and suspected spam.
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You can access your message requests folder on Messenger by tapping on the People tab (circled above)4
Once in the People tab on Facebook, tap the speech bubble icon to access the hidden messages2) How to find hidden Facebook messages on iOsOpen up the Messenger app on your iPhone.
From here, select your profile icon at the top left of your display.
Tap Message requests.
3) How to find hidden Facebook messages on AndroidOpen Messenger and tap your profile photo in the top left corner. Tap Message Requests.
From Message Requests, you can: Reply to open the conversation and connect with the person.
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