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Wait, you can deactivate your account and still use messenger?

• strifey 8y ago
  Yep. It currently explicitly states this and does it by default when you get to the final deactivation step. Previously it was an option you had to notice and click.
  • mpg33 8y ago
    I deactivated my account over 3 years ago. Would I be able to use messenger?
    • strifey 8y ago
      My guess is if you reactivate and immediately deactivate, it should do what you want. I don't know what else that triggers, though.
• tomjakubowski 8y ago
  I did this one time and my account ended up in a broken state where friends couldn't send me messages in long-running one-on-one Messenger chats (they got some mystery error like "This user is not accepting messages right now."). Group chats still worked and I could send messages to those same long-running Messenger conversations. Re-activating the Facebook side of the account resolved the issue. Caveat deactivator.
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• tomphoolery 8y ago
  You can indeed! You can even reactivate your account _only_ for messenger. I kinda wish you could do that for events...
  • dvtrn 8y ago
    Better yet I wish Events were integrated into messenger, but part of me thinks Facebook knows it that a substantial portion of users would probably stick to messenger and never visit the news feed ever again because that's the only thing many of us care about.
  • parthdesai 8y ago
    Yup, i exclusively use FB for group chats and events. Have uninstalled Fb app and messenger app and my phone's battery and ram thank me.