Disappearing messages messenger

Sorry, never heard of this.

And neither have I…

Just heard of this today while watching 'Judge Judy.' Apparently if someone sends you nasty messages you can't prove it as they disappear. So you can't print them out either as evidence for anything.

It is possible you apparently turn it on and off in your settings I suppose people may have their reasons.

You can turn it off but then they can turn it straight back on

I always take screenshots of things I need. Then they don't disappear.

The messages can disappear within a minute or two I think so you would have to be quick and there’s some alert to the sender if you screen shot the messages. I just wouldn’t read a message that was on disappearing mode.

I've never heard of this and don't think I've had one. I probably wouldn't recognise it if I did. I'll have to ask my daughters about it, they are more savvy on phones than I am. I'm red hot on the computer but for some reason can't relate to mobile phones apart from calls, texts and WhatsApp. I can just about find a web page but much prefer the computer.

Never ever come across this or heard of it
Are you talking about private messages on here or emails or phone messages ?

Messages on Facebook messenger - but I use it without being on Facebook messenger. You can’t miss it if someone is using disappearing messages because you get a notification that such a person is going to be using disappearing messages if they message you. When I received it it was quite creepy and I wondered what the intentions were of the other person.

Could it be that the user doesn’t want a record of their messages to be stored? Rightly or wrongly, many people have a fixation on FB being insecure, so it might just be that.

I haven’t come across it, but why not ask the person who is using it why they are doing it? It might just be that they’ve accidentally set it to do it, and not noticed?

About six months ago my youngest daughter had an extreme "bad hair day" - well, not just the hair! She took a photo to share with close family. She sent a funny comment with it and stressed this was for family and very close friends' consumption only.
She was with her closest friend in the photo and they were clearly laughing their socks off.

She warned us that this was not going to do the rounds of her sister's friends and her own work mates.

I was so surprised that it was here and then gone, I didn't really get a proper look!

It wasn't on Facebook I don't think as I don't use it more than maybe once a year if I'm looking for something particular.

I didn't realise it was Facebook. Should have said that in the OP. I don't have anything to do with it so not my problem!

Has anybody thought about asking Mr Google?

www.howtogeek.com/760359/how-to-send-disappearing-messages-in-facebook-messenger/