{"id":14726,"date":"2025-04-20T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T08:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/newstime\/privacy-tip-how-to-delete-all-your-facebook-messages-at-once\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T08:29:49","slug":"privacy-tip-how-to-delete-all-your-facebook-messages-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/newstime\/privacy-tip-how-to-delete-all-your-facebook-messages-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Tip: How to Delete All Your Facebook Messages at Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"intro\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fb.jpg\" alt=\"fb\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fb.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fb-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fb-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past month two of my Facebook friends have had their accounts hacked (that I know of). In both of these cases the hacker chose to go through the person&#8217;s Facebook emails to read all of their messages and then use that information to message their friends \u2013 posing as them. I was one of those people that each hacker messaged. It was a sobering experience to realize that someone could potentially have access to all of your personal discussions that you&#8217;ve had with family and friends, going back for years!<\/p>\n<p>After this experience I decided that I wanted to delete all of my past Facebook messages so that if I was ever hacked, at least I could limit what they would have access to. But I discovered that this wasn&#8217;t as easy as you would think as there is no global &#8220;Delete All&#8221; option for Facebook messages and conversations. Instead, you must click into each conversation, click on the &#8220;Actions&#8221; button, and choose &#8220;Delete Conversation&#8221;. To do this for the hundreds of conversations that I&#8217;ve had on Facebook over the past several years would have been far too time-consuming. However, I did find an amazing plug-in for the Chrome browser called Facebook \u2013 Delete All Messages that did the trick.<\/p>\n<p>The process is simple. Open up your Chrome browser and navigate to the plugin. Click &#8220;Add to Chrome&#8221; in order to download\/install the plugin. It currently has over 82,000 users and I found it to be virus\/bug-free as of two weeks ago, so I can highly recommend it.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages1.jpg\" alt=\"chrome_fb_messages1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages1-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Once it&#8217;s installed, simply sign into Facebook. Open up the full messages window and click on the plugin icon that sits on the far right of the address bar. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages2.jpg\" alt=\"chrome_fb_messages2\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages2-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages2-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then click &#8220;Launch&#8221;. It will delete all the messages on that entire page. If you have a lot of old messages you may need to scroll down and click Launch a few times until they&#8217;re all gone. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages3.jpg\" alt=\"chrome_fb_messages3\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages3-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/chrome_fb_messages3-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But within a few minutes you should be rid of all your old conversations, and they will not reappear when the person messages you again. You&#8217;ll have a clean slate!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oedb.org\/ilibrarian\/privacy-tip-delete-facebook-messages\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month two of my Facebook friends have had their accounts hacked (that I know of). 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