Facebook question - messenger reactions....

dowie · 22 Dec 2019 at 15:34

Did a quick google but just wondering if anyone on here can clarify.

In messenger you can put reactions on individual messages, like a thumbs up or an emoji face etc...

Now I've accidentally put a reaction on a message I didn't intend to - after a very quick google I undid the reaction by selecting the same emoji so now the message doesn't have any reaction on it....

The message isn't the latest message in the conversation, it is an older one - I'd scrolled up and my thumb had hovered over it the message when scrolling which causes the emojis to pop up and left one being selected.

My question is regarding notifications:

Firstly I believe you can get a notification when someone reacts to a message right? If the reaction is deleted before that is seen is the notification then deleted? (IIRC facebook generally works that way in principle)

Secondly - what form does the notification take if it is seen - does it show the text of the specific message or just notify the person that someone has reacted? I.e. they'd have to have gone into the convo and scrolled up to see the reaction?

(yes it involves a girl, an old argument and the emoji reaction isn't/wasnt' appropriate at all to the message!)

Threepwood · 22 Dec 2019 at 15:59

They only see you reacted, but the notification does not say how you reacted, I don't think the original notification gets deleted.

Anyway, don't sweat it dude.

(I think thats the case anyway, surely they will check it out and see there is nothing there and figure out it was an accident?)

dowie · 22 Dec 2019 at 16:03

Threepwood said:
They only see you reacted, but the notification does not say how you reacted, I don't think the original notification gets deleted.

Cool - does it show the message that was reacted to though? Of just a notification that someone reacted to a message in a convo?

Threepwood · 22 Dec 2019 at 16:05

That I don't know, sorry.

Em3bbs · 22 Dec 2019 at 16:21

Is this where you laughed at her telling you her dog died or something.

jsmoke · 22 Dec 2019 at 17:16

Your stalking an ex?

Zefan · 22 Dec 2019 at 18:48

I'd ask someone you know and trust to repeat the action but on one of your old messages with them.

LuckyBenski · 22 Dec 2019 at 19:12

Just tried with my girlfriend - it said my name, which reaction, and which message it was about. All in the notification on her android notifications.

I deleted it and the notification stayed.

This catches me out when scrolling conversations and it accidentally reacts. Embarrassing.

dowie · 22 Dec 2019 at 19:23

Zefan said:
I'd ask someone you know and trust to repeat the action but on one of your old messages with them.

Think I will do.

LuckyBenski said:
Just tried with my girlfriend - it said my name, which reaction, and which message it was about.

Yikes, that isn't what I was hoping for.... (thanks for testing it though)

NoobCannon · 22 Dec 2019 at 19:39

Lol facebook

[FnG]magnolia · 22 Dec 2019 at 19:45

dowie said:
(yes it involves a girl, an old argument and the emoji reaction isn't/wasnt' appropriate at all to the message!)

* Interest intensifies *

Threepwood · 22 Dec 2019 at 19:48

dowie said:
Yikes, that isn't what I was hoping for.... (thanks for testing it though)

Oh dear, is that the case for both on the computer and a pc?

G-MAN2004 · 22 Dec 2019 at 20:55

It's over for you brother. You might as well go all in now and send her a pic of your chipolata.

mrk · 22 Dec 2019 at 23:16

Threepwood said:
Oh dear, is that the case for both on the computer and a pc?

Why would it be different? Messenger is Messenger across board.

builder22 · 22 Dec 2019 at 23:25

React with a more appropriate reaction and blame it on drink, or the dog, or something

LuckyBenski · 22 Dec 2019 at 23:31

mrk said:
Why would it be different? Messenger is Messenger across board.

But Facebook notifications are not Messenger notifications. So they might exist and be cleared in different ways.

Threepwood · 22 Dec 2019 at 23:41

mrk said:
Why would it be different? Messenger is Messenger across board.

idk, I had a wierd one a few months ago... had a random friend request with no message... then I was away from home and installed messenger for while I was away, and only then did a message come through from the requestee... which was sent at the same time as the friend request. It would have helped if the request had come with the original message, because it would have explained who they were to start with (old friend using gf's account to say hi, as he doesnt have one)

I don't really like having messenger on my mobile full time, but that is another story.

Minusorange · 22 Dec 2019 at 23:41

dowie said:
Yikes, that isn't what I was hoping for.... (thanks for testing it though)

There is a lesson to be learned, I hope you discover