{"id":11494,"date":"2014-08-12T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=11494"},"modified":"2015-10-31T18:35:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T22:35:01","slug":"how-to-somewhat-easily-switch-to-facebook-on-the-mobile-web-to-answer-messages-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/how-to-somewhat-easily-switch-to-facebook-on-the-mobile-web-to-answer-messages-for-android\/","title":{"rendered":"how to somewhat easily switch to Facebook on the mobile web to answer Messages (for Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:<\/strong> with recent updates to the Facebook app for Android these steps are no longer valid \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

With all the hoopla surrounding Facebook’s Messenger app’s TOS, everyone is lost in the ‘fuq facebook!’ uproar but no one is actually providing a solution to the obvious question<\/em>: HOW DO I RESPOND TO MY MESSAGES?<\/p>\n

It’s a few extra clicks, but who cares, and it goes like this (for Android users).<\/p>\n

So you click the Messages icon in the regular Facebook app and it no longer shows you your actual messages, and instead wants you to ‘Get App’ (big, colored button – I so want to click you! But I won’t.) or ‘Learn More’ – click to Learn More:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_2014-08-11-18-05-47\"<\/p>\n

This will launch your Android’s default browser to the URL http:\/\/m.facebook.com\/help\/756608174361299. Once there click the ‘back’ button on the page:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_2014-08-11-18-07-03\"<\/p>\n

This will take you to the top of the Help Center; now click the three-row tray in the top left and you’ll see your Messages tab:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_2014-08-11-18-07-19\"<\/p>\n

Clicking the Messages tab, Facebook will want you to install their Stickers app. They have a Stickers app? Click the ‘Cancel’ button:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_2014-08-11-18-07-28\"<\/p>\n

There are your Messages! When done responding to your friends on the open mobile web, click the tab counter and close the tab:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_2014-08-11-18-07-47\"
\n\"Screenshot_2014-08-11-18-10-31\"<\/p>\n

I’d write something witty railing against the tyranny of Facebook’s hegemony, but really I just want to read my Messages. Enjoy the web.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: with recent updates to the Facebook app for Android these steps are no longer valid \ud83d\ude41 … With all the hoopla surrounding Facebook’s Messenger app’s TOS, everyone is lost in the ‘fuq facebook!’ uproar but no one is actually providing a solution to the obvious question: HOW DO I RESPOND TO MY MESSAGES? It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[157],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekathon","tag-facebook"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/facebook_like_thumb.jpg?fit=2000%2C1713&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2Zo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11494"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15187,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions\/15187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}