Easy ways to restrict who can message you on messenger

Although the Messenger application has become one of the most popular messaging applications on social media platforms, spam messages and other unwanted messages can easily reach you through it, since Messenger

 It has some features that allow individuals to access you, whether they have your phone number or between you and them are mutual friends, and during the following lines we show you some tricks that you can use when using Facebook, including the mechanism of restricting those messages from reaching you.

Restrict spam According to what was mentioned on the dailymail.co.uk website, you can easily activate a feature in which you can restrict the arrival of a message from someone you do not know via Messenger, just do the following:

Go to privacy and settings.

- Click on the Message delivery icon.

Inside the icon, change the status of receiving messages from chats to message requests.

Incognito mode in Messenger Sometimes friends think that you are connected to Messenger because the green tick appears, and therefore you are forced to respond to messages even if you are busy, so in this way you can smoothly activate the incognito mode in Messenger, through the following:

Click on the Settings icon next to your name.

Then click on Active Status.

Then turn the slider off.

Another mechanism that you can use to prevent unwanted people from seeing your Facebook stories is simply to enter the privacy and security icon, then click on the control icon in the story settings, then select the contacts that you want to see your stories.

Securing Facebook from hacking With simple steps, you can protect your Facebook account from hacking by following the following:

– Assign a unique password that is not easy to discover, and make sure not to share it with others. To ensure that the password is strong, adhere to the following:

It must be at least 6 characters long, including numbers, symbols and punctuation marks.

Avoid using common words, your name, or your date of birth.

Change your password every 6 months.

Limit who can see you on Facebook, by changing your privacy settings to friends of friends only.

Control the search engine so that your name does not appear in front of users, by entering the settings and privacy section.

Enable the Activate two-factor authentication feature.

Activate notifications that alert you to someone entering your account, especially when entering from another device.