How to see who is online on Facebook

After so much insistence from relatives and co-workers, in the end you too gave up and started using Facebook. You are especially appreciating the functions related to messaging but, in this regard, being still a beginner with the famous social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg, there are some functions that are not particularly clear to you.

For example, you haven’t yet figured out how to see who is online on Facebook at the same time you connect to interact with them in real time. Well, if that’s the case, don’t worry: you’ve landed on the right guide. In the next chapters of my tutorial, in fact, I will show you in detail how to succeed in your intent and understand who is connected to Facebook at the same time as you are.

Know that this is child’s play and that you can do it by acting both from your smartphone and tablet, using the Facebook Messenger app, and from your PC, through the browser you usually use to browse online. For all the details, read on: everything is explained below.

Index

• Preliminary information
• How to see who is online on Facebook
  • From smartphones and tablets
  • From PC
• How not to see who is online on Facebook
  • From smartphones and tablets
  • From PC

Preliminary information

Before explaining how to see who is online on Facebook, I need to give you some useful preliminary information in this regard.

First of all, if in your online searches you have found alleged apps to see who is online on Facebook, know that you have to stay away from them, as they are almost certainly scam apps.

It is not necessary to use third-party apps to know who is online on Facebook: the popular social network, in fact, offers a native feature that allows you to know who, among your friends, is active when you connect.

This tool, called Activity Status, can be activated at any time both from smartphones and tablets, using the Facebook Messenger app for Android (downloadable from the Play Store or alternative stores ) and for iOS / iPadOS (downloadable from the App Store ), and from a PC, using the official Facebook site.

However, before explaining how to proceed in activating this feature, I must specify that the Activity Status tool has a reciprocity constraint: this means that activating it to see who is online on Facebook will allow your friends to know if and when you are active. you too within the social network

In any case, don’t worry: as I will explain in detail in the next chapters of this guide, if necessary you can deactivate the activity status at any time and not be seen online on Facebook. If everything is clear so far, I would say that we can go on.

How to see who is online on Facebook

As mentioned above, to see who is online on Facebook, you need to activate the activity status. In the next chapters, I will therefore explain how to do it by acting both from a smartphone and tablet, and from a computer. It’s that easy.

From smartphones and tablets

To activate the Facebook activity status on smartphones and tablets and, by doing so, see who is online on the famous social network, first start the Facebook Messenger app.

Now, after logging into your account (if necessary), press your profile icon located in the top left corner. Then, in the screen that shows you, you tap on the item state of activity and moves to ON the lever located at the label shows when you’re active / a.

Once this is done, press on the People item (the men icon ) located in the bottom menu of the Facebook Messenger app and refer to the Active tab: in the latter you will be shown the list of all the people currently online on Facebook.

From PC

If you prefer to act as a computer, to see the people currently active on Facebook, first connect to the official website of the social network and log in to your account if necessary.

Then, click on the Messenger icon located in the top menu and then click on the (…) icon located in the Messenger chatbox. Now, in the menu that is shown to you (the one dedicated to Chat Settings ), press on the item Activate the activity status.

At this point, to see who is online on Facebook, refer to the Contacts tab which is located in the right sidebar of Facebook: all the people currently online will be visible in this section and their names will be marked with a dot icon. green color.

How not to see who is online on Facebook

Would you like to deactivate the activity status so as not to see who is online on Facebook? Don’t worry: succeeding in this intent is very simple. In the next chapters I’ll explain how to act as a smartphone, tablet and PC.

From smartphones and tablets

To disable activity status from smartphones and tablets, you must first launch the Facebook Messenger app. Once this is done, after logging into your account (if required), click on your profile thumbnail located in the top left corner.

Now, in the new screen that you see on the screen, press on the word Activity status and, finally, move the lever located next to the word Show when you are active to OFF. Finally, confirm the operation by clicking on the Deactivate button.

Doing so will deactivate the activity status and you will no longer be able to see who is online on Facebook, but consequently your contacts on the social network will not be able to know when you will be online.

From PC

To not see who is online on Facebook you can also proceed from a PC, by connecting directly to the official Facebook site and acting through the Messenger chat settings.

To get started, if you haven’t already, log into your Facebook account. Then, in the menu located at the top, click on the Messenger icon and then press the (…) button that you can see in the Messenger box.

Now, click on the item Disable the activity status and choose whether to press the item Disable the activity status for all contacts or decide whether to disable the activity status only for some contacts or for all contacts except some, by specifying those to put in blacklist or white list.

Finally, to confirm your choices, press the OK button. This way, in the Facebook Contacts tab you will no longer be shown active users and, reciprocally, your contacts will not know if you are online. You didn’t think it would be that easy, did you?

 

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