Considering the extent to which we live our lives on Facebook, most of us aren’t actually aware of the wealth of tools and toggles that lie beyond the simple newsfeed.
In fact, there are many, many ways Facebook tries to make our lives a little easier – and perhaps a little more interesting – with tricks the majority aren’t even aware of.
Don’t believe me? Let’s try.
Strange phone number calling you? Just search for it.
For all those times you lose your contacts, have a strange number text you in particularly friendly terms, and struggle to work up the courage to ask them who the hell they really are.
Just. Search. The. Number. Right into your search bar.
Oh, and you don’t even have to be Facebook friends with the person calling you to reap the rewards of your stalking status.
Privacy? What privacy?
Tag your friends in a group chat to get their attention in a river of terrible banter.
Group chats can be a vacuum-like vortex of bad jokes, banter and conversations that go on forever about… not a whole lot.
Want to grab someone’s attention, but worried about the message getting lost in a litany of new messages? Just tag them. They’ll get the notification.
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Change the colour of your messages.
If you’re ever worried you’re accidentally going to message the wrong group about the wrong thing, just colour code them.
Each group chat on Messenger has settings where you can change the entire colour of the chat. Of course, I found this out the annoying way, when a friend changed all our chats to pink.
Beautiful.
Hate the memories? Block the memories.
Unlike real life, when the memory isn’t a funky tool you can turn on and off, Facebook gives you the option of turning your memories off. Whether it be the death of a loved one, a break-up, or something you’d rather forget, Facebook does, actually, have you covered.
