How Do You Delete All Your Messages On Facebook

Over the past month 2 of my Facebook pals have had their accounts hacked (that I understand of). In both of these situations the hacker chose to experience the person's Facebook e-mails to review all of their messages and then make use of that info to message their friends-- impersonating them. I was one of those individuals that each hacker messaged. It was a serious experience to realize that somebody might possibly have access to every one of your individual discussions that you have actually had with family and friends, returning for many years!

After this experience I determined that I intended to remove all of my previous Facebook messages to make sure that if I was ever before hacked, a minimum of I can limit what they would have access to. Yet I uncovered that this wasn't as easy as you would certainly believe as there is no international "Remove All" alternative for Facebook messages as well as discussions. Rather, you must click into each conversation, click the "Actions" button, as well as pick "Remove Conversation". To do this for the hundreds of conversations that I've carried Facebook over the past numerous years would certainly have been far also taxing. However, I did locate a remarkable plug-in for the Chrome browser called Facebook-- Erase All Messages that did the trick.

How Do You Delete All Your Messages On Facebook

The procedure is simple. Open your Chrome web browser and also browse to the plugin. Click "Contribute To Chrome" in order to download/install the plugin. It presently has more than 82,000 individuals as well as I found it to be virus/bug-free since two weeks back, so I can extremely recommend it.

Once it's mounted, simply authorize into Facebook. Open the full messages window and click on the plugin icon that remains on the far right of the address bar.

Then click "Release". It will certainly erase all the messages on that whole web page. If you have a great deal of old messages you may need to scroll down and also click Launch a few times up until they're all gone.

But within a few minutes you ought to be rid of all your old conversations, as well as they will certainly not re-emerge when the individual messages you once more. You'll have a fresh start!