Facebook- How to Delete Your in Box.

Updated on April 12, 2012
B.Q. asks from Lincoln, CA
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On my facebook account. I wanted to delete my messages. My husband went into my account and was reading my deleted messages via archived. Is there a way to get rid of that? The messages in Archived? when you sign on I put my emailed then my password just popped in. what do you do if we share a computer. How can I block it from my husband getting into my account. I dont go into his stuff. Im not hiding anything. But I dont want him reading my messages...

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So What Happened?

Thank you. I found that you can delete the messages. But it take forever to delete every one of them. No im not hiding anything from him. Just people from my past. Like High school.. some people made comments of stupid stuff i did in high school. would like to keep the past in the past that's all..

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M..

answers from Detroit on

Not sure.

My husband has access to my facebook acct, he has my password. I dont really talk about anything that I wouldnt want him seeing...

He has read more things than I thought he even cared to, and when I asked him why it was his business, he said "You are my wife, everything you do is my business."

Good enough for me I guess. And Im pretty self righteous and stubborn. I dont give up that easy, but hes right. :)

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T.N.

answers from Albany on

Go to archived messages, click on actions, then delete them again. That time it WILL be really gone forever.

When you sign in to FB, doesn't your computer say, 'Do you want FB to remember your password?' Obviously, you'd click NO there.

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H.P.

answers from Houston on

Hmm...good to know that I can't delete messages. Not cool.

Change your password, and make sure that you always log out, don't just close.

G.T.

answers from Redding on

Make sure the little check box that says "keep me signed in" isnt checked first of all.
And I know you can delete your archived stuff, just go to it and there will be that option.

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G.B.

answers from Oklahoma City on

You must always log out.

When you have the opportunity make sure to go clear your cache.....then when it asks you what to delete, thinking Chrome here, I always click them all.

After you are finished clearing you go log back in, do not click the box where it says keep me logged in.

Then when you are on your home page wait a moment and keep your eyes open. It will have a line pop up across the top under the address bar where it will ask you if you want to remember this password or not. Click not.

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D.G.

answers from Las Vegas on

Sharing a computer and sharing a Face Book account are two different things. I'm "assuming" that you have separate FB accounts and he knows your password. Instead of jumping through a bunch of hoops to erase messages, simply change your FB password and don't tell him the new one. That way, he can't get into your account and can't look at your messages. He'll be able to see only what you allow your 'friends' to see. If you share one FB account, then it's time to set up your own.

M.P.

answers from Minneapolis on

B., are you talking deleting from Facebook directly or have you set it up that every time you get a message or wallpost, it comes directly to your email account? In your settings you can turn off the email notifications. Then you wont get a message or the actual content of the message in your email. If its coming to your email, you send it to trash then go to the trash file and delete everything in there permanently. Dont wait for the program to do so. In Facebook, you can delete a message permanently by turning off the archive feature in message settings. The sad thing here is not that you have to worry about what your writing, but that your husband is so insecure that he has to read it all. Have you done something in the past to mistrust you that bad? I am not judging, believe me I have a husband that periodically goes on my page to check what I am doing, not that he is going to find anything, but he wants to know what I am saying and doing because he thinks his family will get wind of it and think less of me than they already do. Kinda impossible, since they hate me anyway I am not Indian, or right for him lol. I am not all that worried about ticking them off either. I have them in lists where they only see portions of what I do and say. I do care for my in-laws, but I can not possibly be so careful to adhere to every single wacky cultural rule. I did it once to my husband, I snooped on his yahoo account, and found things I really wish I hadn't since it makes me feel less of him and really put a kink in our relationship. We are working on it, but its very slow going.

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