How to Turn off Facebook Messenger
You can make Messenger accessible to only specific Facebook friends while appearing offline to everyone else, or you can hide from all your Facebook friends and contacts. When you turn off Active Status, you can receive messages, but you won’t be notified about messages. Anything you receive while Messenger is off shows up in your inbox when you turn on Active Status. Follow these steps for either outcome:
Select Turn off active status for all contacts to disable messaging for all your Facebook friends and contacts.Select Turn off active status for all contacts except if you want to hide from Facebook Messenger for most of your contacts, but you want a select few to be able to message you.Select Turn off active status for only some contacts if there are a few Facebook friends for whom you would like to disable chat.
