Facebook Other Messages: If you enter competitions on Facebook, you should be checking your message inbox (or Messenger app) consistently in case you get a winning notice! But it's not as simple as it seems - there are additionally Message Requests as well as Filtered Messages to inspect.
-If you get a Facebook message from a friend (or a page you've messaged), it will certainly go into your regular Messenger inbox at www.facebook.com/messages
-If a message comes in from a person Facebook believes you might understand, it will look like a Message Request at the top of your inbox at www.facebook.com/messages/requests
-Messages from non-friends, presumed by Facebook to be spam, are sent out to your Filtered Messages at www.facebook.com/messages/filtered
A Facebook web page (business) can just message a follower straight if they have discussed their page-- OR they can message if the fan has actually previously sent out a message. In some cases though, a notice concerning a competitors you have actually won will certainly come from a page admin, who needs to utilize their personal account to send out that message-- as well as it may well most likely to your Filtered Messages folder!
Facebook Other Messages
Discover your messages on facebook.com
Most likely to www.facebook.com as well as click the speech bubble symbol at the top of your internet browser home window to get to your messages-- it reveals Recent by default, but you can click the Message Requests tab (this will reveal a number in brackets if you have unread messages). Click to see a request and also near the bottom you can "Accept" or "Decline" it.
Scroll right to all-time low of all your Message Requests as well as you should see a link to see Filtered Requests (see screenshot below)-- if you have any! You can Reply to or Delete a Filtered message.
Find your messages on messenger.com
If you click See All in Messenger from Facebook, or go straight to messenger.com, your inbox has a slightly different style. Click the setups symbol in the leading left of your web browser and select Message Requests. Scroll down past all the message Requests as well as you can click to see filteringed system Requests.
Find your messages using the Messenger application
To find your Message Requests on mobile, open Messenger and also tap the People symbol near the bottom (2 people), then on the next screen touch the Add Contacts icon (person with plus indicator). Tap Requests at the top to see your Message Requests.
Scroll down past all your Requests and you'll see the Filtered Messages heading (if you have any type of!). Faucet to Show all.
Tap Accept to move the message to your routine inbox. Tap Decline to remove it.
If you pick up an old winning message as well as discover you've missed the case date for your prize (or there was no claim date!) don't anguish. Send a courteous message back to the promoter clarifying that you really did not learn about the Filtered Messages folder-- they might be sympathetic!
If it's a UK promo you could also mention that the Advertising Specifications Authority recommends that only contacting a winner once is NOT sufficient, and also extra efforts ought to be made if there's no response (learn more on this right here).
Do not neglect to check your message Requests on Twitter and also Instagram as well!
