You might be one of those people who, for whatever reason, want to be on Facebook browsing and sharing content without anyone knowing you’re online. If so, this new and handy tutorial is for you, as we will explain how to use the Facebook app without showing the online status of your business.
Facebook is the most famous and used social network of our times; Created by the American Mark Zuckerberg and a direct rival of Twitter, Facebook is also the owner of other communication services that are causing a sensation among fans of new technologies, I speak of WhatsApp and Instagram.
In the case of Facebook, we find a more relaxed social network than others like Twitter, and therefore it is the one that more people have adopted, as it is the easiest to use. Today it is almost impossible to find a person who does not have their own Facebook account. In this social network, you have a bulletin board where you can post and your friends can comment or write to you directly, you can do exactly the same.
Facebook is also the natural replacement for opinion forums, as it allows you to create thematic communities or groups where people with a common goal or theme in mind talk about it.
That’s why when you log into Facebook, for whatever reason, you may not want your friends to know you just logged in. Various reasons come to mind, ranging from the fact that you don’t want your mom to know that you are connected to the one you just want to enter to watch something in particular and you don’t want an annoying friend to start talking to you and wasting too much time. These two reasons are just a small example, but each will have its own equally valid reasons.
Before proceeding, you need to keep in mind that if you turn off the status of your business, you won’t be able to see that of others. Therefore, you will not be able to know if your friends are connected, as in the case of the WhatsApp read receipt; If you turn it off, you won’t be able to know if someone has read your messages and vice versa.
Disable your activity status on Facebook messenger so that nobody knows when you are online
To deactivate the activity status on Facebook messenger you don’t have to go through difficult procedures. All you have to do is open the app and go to the Settings section, which we can access by simply clicking on your profile photo located in the upper right corner of the main application interface.
We will be able to see the item Disable the activity status, which is what interests us for this guide. Next, click on the toggle that appears, in order to disable the Show when active option.
If you want to deactivate it on the browser, just click on the messenger icon on any Facebook page. In the new side window, click on the three dots at the top and immediately after on Deactivate the activity status.
At this point the possible options are different:
- Turn off activity status for all contacts
- Turn off activity status for all contacts except…
- Disable activity status for some contacts only…
With this option disabled, you can be on Facebook and browse silently for as long as you want without anyone knowing you’re connected online.
In addition to not knowing when your friends are connected, you will not know when, logically, their last connection was, if this option is disabled. Similarly, following the same steps, you can re-enable the activity status whenever you want.
