If you use Facebook Messenger I’m sure you must be, all of your friends who also use the service can tell when you’re active (online). This makes it hard to ignore people you don’t really want to chat with. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to hide your active status on Facebook messenger.
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Why you may want to hide status?
Reasons could be many. For example, you may not want to be seen as “online” as (Facebook chat form shows a green light when you are online), to people/friends you are not comfortable with, like your Boss, your Ex. Or some friends who just starts a chat for no specific reasons.
Thankfully, Facebook does give you the option, to hide your online status on the Facebook chatbox.
How to hide your active status on Facebook messenger
Here is a simple step by step instruction, on how to hide your online status on Facebook chat. So, a particular friend or group of friends, or even everyone in your Facebook friends list, will not see your online status.
Step 1: Log in to your Facebook account. Once logged in, the Facebook chatbox on the right shows a green light next to a friend’s pic and name. Which means he or she is online.
Facebook also shows whether the person is connected with a Mobile phone or a PC (as Web).
Step 2:
At the top right of Facebook messenger. Click on the three-dotted line to bring up the messenger option box.
From the options, click on “Turn off active status“.
Step 3:
After you click that, you will be shown another box with three more options.
1: Turn off active status for all contacts.
This is a drastic step, you can take. Choosing this option will hide your online status on Facebook chat for all your Facebook contacts.
2:Turn off active status for all contacts except :
Here you can enter the name of your friend/friends with whom you want to chat and don’t want to hide your online status.
3: Turn off active status for only some contacts:
Option 2 and 3 are almost the same. Here you can selectively turn off your active status only for some contacts with whom you don’t want to chat or don’t want them to know that you are online and active.
After selecting any of the above options click on OK. to save your settings.
Your status in the Facebook messenger will be greyed out. And neither you nor any of your friends will be able to see that you are online.
However, at the bottom, you get the option “Turn on chat to see who’s available”. If you click on it, Facebook will show all friends who are online. And they will also see your online status.
This is a very good option, which you can turn on and off, instantly to Hide your online status on Facebook Chat.
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