Read receipts aren't everyone's favorite thing — after all, they can let friends know we've read a message when we would rather pretend we hadn't — but they're handy for keeping up with online conversations. And Facebook Messenger has read receipts, if you know where to look. Show
 Read receipts on Facebook.com and Messenger.comThe best way to tell whether a message has been read is to log onto Facebook with a web browser (or access the Facebook Messenger website by going to messenger.com instead of facebook.com). Clicking on the Messenger icon reveals a list of the people you've communicated with. Selecting a person pop-ups a small window over your Facebook timeline. If a friend has read your message, you'll see a miniature version of their profile picture. If they haven't, you'll see a gray icon with a white checkmark indicating the message has been delivered, but not yet read. You may also see a white circle, which means the message is sending, or a white circle with a gray checkmark, which means the message has been sent, but not yet delivered. If you mouse over the miniature version of their profile picture, a popup will show "Seen by [Name of person]" along with the date and time it was seen. The website version of Messenger is the only way to see the time and date the message was read. Read receipts on the Facebook Messenger appMessenger uses small, circular icons that show up in the lower right the message window. If a friend has read your message, you'll see a miniature version of their profile picture. If they haven't, you'll see a blue icon with a white checkmark indicating the message has been delivered, but not yet read. You may also see a white circle, which means the message is sending, or a white circle with a blue checkmark, which means the message has been sent, but not yet delivered. With the app, you can't see the time and date stamp. Tapping the icon or message will just reveal the status as "Seen." You won't always be able to see if a message has been readA message being unread doesn't necessarily mean the recipient hasn't read it. Message notifications — which your friend may have pop up on their desktop or smartphone — let friends read your messages without read receipts. You'll only get a read receipt when your friend opens Messenger to read your message or views Messenger messages through Facebook. Updated on 3/23/2022 with new instructions for revealing read receipts. [Image credit: Facebook Messenger app on iPhone via Techlicious/Smartmockups, screenshots via Techlicious and Facebook] Elizabeth Harper is a writer and editor with more than a decade of experience covering consumer technology and entertainment. In addition to writing for Techlicious, she's Editorial Director of Blizzard Watch and is published on sites all over the web including Time, CBS, Engadget, The Daily Dot and DealNews.
Crambler is supported by its readers. If you purchase through a link on our site, we may earn a commission. Learn more Chances are that if you use Facebook today (and those chances are high because Facebook just passed over 2.6 billion monthly active users), you have heard all the hype about the Facebook Messenger App and concerns over Facebook Messenger privacy. To start off the whole fiasco in 2014, users were forced to download the separate Facebook Messenger App if they wanted to use messaging through the Facebook app itself for mobile. This started causing Facebook users to be leary. Why? Because the Facebook Messenger app asked for access to a lot more permissions than the average app and, let’s be honest, the permissions are a little frightening when you start looking into them (more on that below). Then, in early 2018, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytical data scandal happened which exposed the fact that millions of Facebook users’ personal data was being harvested without their consent by Cambridge Analytica. This led to the #DeleteFacebook movement which trended on Twitter. Needless to say, Facebook users have been worried about their privacy for a long time now, and for good reason. If you have questions about Facebook Messenger when it comes to your privacy, then you’re in the right place. We have answers. Use the guide below to jump around as you need: Are Messages On Messenger Private?NO. Unless you are using Secret Conversations (explained below), your messages on Facebook Messenger are not private. Messages that are sent through the Facebook Messenger app are NOT end-to-end encrypted. This means that any message you send on Messenger could be seen or intercepted in plain text.
What does end-to-end encryption mean? Glad you asked! In super simple terms, if you send a message from your phone that says “Hi Mark” and the message is encrypted, it gets sent as a bunch of jumbled letters and numbers before it reaches Mark’s phone. This means that if your “Hi Mark” message was intercepted by anyone, it would look something like this: TUVm6HIrSJjhNU9x8gIaWJF4KtK3I5TYaSDdaxcDlrI= That way, nobody (including hackers) would be able to know what the message is saying. However, since the Facebook Messenger app does not encrypt your messages by default, all of your pictures and messages you send can be seen by Facebook. In fact, Facebook confirmed it uses technology to spy on your Facebook messages and pictures. Even though these messages aren’t always seen by an actual person, that’s still a very shady business decision and the exact opposite of “privacy.” Sounds pretty scary, doesn’t it? Yet millions of users continue to use Facebook Messenger on a daily basis. Is Facebook Messenger Secure?NO. Facebook Messenger is only “secure” if you are using their Secret Conversations feature. In 2016, Facebook announced a new feature offering encrypted, secret, self-destructing Messenger chats called Secret Conversations. Even though Secret Conversations have been a feature that Facebook Messenger has offered since 2016, many users today don’t even know the feature exists. In March of 2019, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, posted a note on Facebook called “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking” in which he outlines the company’s visions to work towards building a privacy-focused messaging and social networking platform through Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (all platforms owned by Facebook). In the article, Mark Zuckerberg writes, “I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and their messages and content won’t stick around forever.” This would include end-to-end encryption on all Facebook-owned messaging services. It should be noted that WhatsApp already has end-to-end encryption built into the app by default (good news!). All of that being said, Facebook’s messaging platforms aren’t even close to being fully encrypted and they have said that encrypting Messenger will take years. Can Anybody See Your Messages On Messenger?Technically, YES. Since your messages are not end-to-end encrypted, that means that Facebook, law enforcement, hackers, over-reaching governments, or anyone who knew what they were doing could potentially read your messages. Now, this doesn’t mean that your friends or family members would be able to read your messages. They would only be able to read them if they had your username and password and were signed into your account. However, your Facebook Messenger messages are stored on Facebook’s servers word for word. So, if Facebook really wanted to, they could view all your messages or, in some cases, would have to hand your messages over to law enforcement or the government. If Facebook’s servers or your own Facebook account was ever hacked, your messages and pictures you’ve sent could potentially all be retrieved as well. If you want to use Secret Conversations on Facebook Messenger (which offer end-to-end encryption), you have to first enable Secret Conversations on your account. Follow the steps below to enable Secret Conversations on Facebook Messenger for both Android and iOS:
Once Secret Conversations are enabled, then you can go and actually use them. Follow the steps below to start a Secret Conversation on Facebook Messenger for Android:
Follow the steps below to start a Secret Conversation on Facebook Messenger for iOS:
For more information, see the Facebook Secret Conversations help article. Read: Password Security – Why Secure Passwords Need Length Over Complexity Facebook and Facebook Messenger App PermissionsAs far as Facebook and Facebook Messenger App permissions go, there has been a lot of speculation ever since 2014 when users were forced to download the separate Facebook Messenger app in order to use messaging on mobile. Facebook users have been concerned about how Facebook is using these permissions to their advantage to send personalized advertisements and make money off of them. Well, we went and started looking into the Facebook and Facebook Messenger permissions and have presented our findings below. First of all:
Yes, you heard that correctly. The regular Facebook app (not the Messenger app) uses nearly all the same permissions as the Messenger app does. Don’t believe us? Here’s an list of the Facebook and Facebook Messenger permissions side-by-side: As of Facebook version 265.0.0.61.103 and Facebook Messenger version 259.0.0.18.120 In the above pictures, you’ll see screenshots of the Facebook app and the Messenger app’s permissions. After reading through them, some of them stand out as being pretty scary if you’ve never looked into these before (some are listed below). Facebook Messenger App Permissions Examples:
Facebook App Permissions Examples:
Notice that many of the permissions are the same, and the two apps request nearly identical permissions (with a few differences). After all, you are able to call people directly using the Facebook Messenger app which explains why it has a few differences from the regular Facebook app such as permission to directly call phone numbers. Why Does Facebook Need These Permissions?Well, Facebook has some pages in their Help Center to explain to users what the permissions are used for. The pages have an explanation for both the regular Facebook App and the Facebook Messenger App. See these links: Some examples Facebook provides as to why they need those permissions (can also be found in the links above):
Another thing that is important to note — An application needs permissions in order to get its features to work. I have even developed some basic Android apps in the past for fun that required some of these permissions. For example, if there is a button within your application that allows the user to take a picture or video, the developer needs to require permission to take pictures and videos along with the permission to record audio. Otherwise, that button is useless because it won’t do anything. Simple as that. Is Facebook the Only App With These “Invasive” Permissions?Absolutely not. This is something that you would think is common sense, but apparently it’s not. There are plenty of other apps out there that use many of these same permissions. Here is a list of most of the “invasive” permissions listed above that the Facebook and Messenger App use along with other popular apps that use those same permissions:
With all of that new information, it’s still a matter of how the company decides to use those permissions. For example, if a company such as Facebook has as much data as they do, there are a lot of bad things they could do with that data. Data is precious. Companies will pay absurd amounts of money for Facebook to sell it to them so that they can advertise to you. Plus, knowing Facebook’s extremely shady past, can you trust Facebook? We don’t. Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy With the Facebook Messenger App Or Not?The answer is ABSOLUTELY YES you should be worried! Facebook is not even close to having end-to-end encryption by default on all of the apps they own (Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp). The only Facebook-owned app that has end-to-end encryption by default right now is WhatsApp, so if you HAVE to use one, we would highly suggest using WhatsApp. Between the Facebook-Cambridge Analytical data scandal, Facebook admitting that they use technology to spy on your messages and pictures, Facebook blatantly suppressing certain topics on their platforms, and so much more, it’s no wonder that no one trusts Facebook. Facebook is using the information they gather about each individual user so that they can sell that information to third-party companies. This is how Facebook monetizes the data they receive. Without it, they wouldn’t be in business. Not sure how your data is used? You can poke through the various categories on the Facebook Data Use Policy page. The part we should be even more worried about is the fact that, regardless of any permission that any app could ever ask us, much of online Internet data (whether that be Facebook chats, websites visited, pictures sent, etc.) goes directly to the NSA because apparently we all need to be tracked. But that’s a whole other conversation… What Are Good Alternatives to Facebook Messenger?Use Signal. Happy messaging! |
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