How to keep offline in facebook

How to Turn Your Active Status on or Off on Facebook

You can turn active status on or off on the Facebook website, mobile app, and Messenger mobile app.
When your active status is turned off, you will appear offline even when you're online.
You can also choose to appear offline only for certain people that you select.

Facebook may be responsible for putting the word "social" in social media, but there are times when you don't want — or don't have time — to engage with friends.

If you want to log into Facebook without your friends knowing you're online, you can easily turn off your "active status" so you appear offline.

There are three different places where you can control your active status: on Facebook in a web browser, in the Facebook mobile app, and in the Facebook Messenger mobile app.

How to turn off active status on Facebook in a web browser

To turn off active status and appear offline on Facebook:

1. Open Facebook in a browser and log in, if you're not already.

2. Click the circular Messenger icon in the top-right corner.

Click on the Messenger icon in the corner. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

3. Click the three-dot icon at the top of the Messenger drop down.

Click the three-dot icon at the top of the Messenger sidebar. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

4. Click Turn off Active Status in the drop-down menu.

Select the "Turn off Active Status" option. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

5. A pop-up will appear asking if you want to Turn off Active Status for all contacts, Turn off Active Status for all contacts except, or Turn off Active Status for only some contacts. When you click the latter two options, a box will appear where you can enter the names of specific people.

Choose who you want to hide your active status from.

Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

6. Click OK when you're done.

Note: You can also do this by clicking the Messenger icon in the top-right corner and clicking See all in Messenger at the bottom of the drop-down menu. Then, on the full-screen Messenger page, click the three-dot icon in the top-left corner, choose Preferences, click Turn off Active Status in the pop-up, and choose your active status.

How to turn off active status in the Facebook mobile app

1. Open the Facebook app on your phone.

2. Tap the three horizontal lines (called the "hamburger menu") in the top-right corner on Android or the bottom-right corner on iPhone.

Tap the icon of three horizontal lines. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

3. Tap Settings & Privacy, and then tap Settings.

Tap "Settings" in the "Settings & Privacy" drop-down. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

4. Tap Active Status under the Privacy section.

Select "Active Status" at the bottom of the "Privacy" section. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

5. Turn off Show when you're active by moving the slider to the left and then confirm by tapping Turn Off in the pop-up.

After swiping the slider to the left, select "Turn Off" in the pop-up. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

How to turn off active status in the Facebook Messenger mobile app

1. Open the Facebook Messenger app on your phone.

2. Tap your profile's avatar at the top-left of the screen.

Tap your profile icon in the upper-left corner. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

3. Tap Active Status.

Select "Active Status." Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

4. Turn off Show when you're active by moving the slider to the left and then confirm by tapping Turn Off in the pop-up.

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How to appear offline on Facebook: Step-by-step guide

You can turn off your Facebook active status on both your computer and mobile devices. Here is a step-by-step guide you can follow to appear offline on Facebook.

India Today Web Desk

New Delhi,UPDATED: Aug 6, 2020 15:48 IST

Steps you can follow to appear offline on Facebook | Representational image

By India Today Web Desk: Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and today, it has become one of the world's largest social network sites. Facebook has a large base of an audience; billions of people use Facebook to stay connected with each other. Now, if you are a Facebook user and you don't want to be disturbed with chat requests while you're on Facebook, you can set your active status to unavailable in the chat function to make it look like you're not online.

When you turn your active status off, you'll still receive messages, but they'll go into your inbox to read later. You can turn off your Facebook active status using both computer and mobile devices.

Here is a step by step guide you can follow to appear offline on Facebook using a computer, android and iOS.

Steps to appear offline on Facebook using a computer or Mac

Step 1: First, open Facebook in a browser and log in.

Step 2: Next, in the chat tab, click the Gear icon.

Step 3: From the given option click Turn Off Active Status

Step 4: In the dialogue box, select any one option.

Select Turn Off Active Status for All Contacts; if you don't want to be disturbed by anyone
Select Turn Off Active Status for All Contacts Except; if you don't want to be disturbed by most people, but want to be available to a select few. You'll be given the option to choose who you want to be available to
Select Turn off Active Status for Only Some Contacts; if there are just a few people you don't want to know you're on Facebook. You'll be given the option to choose who you don't want to be available to

Step 5: After selecting, click Okay.

That's it! Your activity active status will remain off until you turn it back on. If you want to be extra careful that you appear as inactive on Facebook, switch your active status to "off" across all the devices where you use it.

Steps to appear offline on Facebook using an Android device

Step 1: First, open your Facebook app on your Android device.

Step 2: Next, tap the hamburger icon (three horizontal lines) in the upper-right corner.

Step 3: Now, scroll down to the Settings & Privacy Section and tap Settings.

Step 4: Now scroll down to the Privacy section and tap Active Status.

Step 5: Tap the switch to the off position, by moving the slider to the left and then confirm by tapping Turn Off.

Now, your friends can't identify you as being online. If you using an iOS device then also you can turn off your activity status. The process for turning off your active status on the Facebook app is slightly different for an iOS device than for an Android one.

Steps you can follow to appear offline on Facebook using an iOS device

Step 1: First, open your Facebook app on your iOS device.

Step 2: Next, tap the hamburger icon (menu) in the lower-right corner.

Step 3: Now, scroll down and tap Settings & Privacy and tap Settings.

Step 4: Scroll down to the Privacy section and tap Active Status.

Step 5: Tap the slider next to Show when you're active to turn it off.

You're prompted to confirm your choice, then the slider will become white. Once Active Status is disabled, others won't be able to see when you are actively using Facebook.

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Methods and rules for uploading offline data to the Facebook system

Content

1 What to do if the target actions are performed offline
2 How can you return the user to online
3 When should you use offline events?
4 Types of data used in advertising
- 4. 1 Hashed data is matched, offline data is onboarded online, and you get your customer list.
5 Ways to upload offline data to the Facebook platform
6 How to create an Offline event set
7 How to upload offline data manually
- 7.1 How the offline data should look like in the end
8 What difficulties you might encounter along the way

Any Facebook ad campaign has its own goal, to which you bring users. To fully evaluate the return on advertising, you always need data on the achievement of the set goal. Such a goal can already be achieved offline, and then it requires offline tracking. nine0031

So you've created your audience segments, calculated your daily budget, planned your communications strategy, and are ready to test your hypotheses. But targeted actions are performed at a physical point, by phone or through another offline channel.

How to be?

What to do if the target actions are performed offline

When a company's business processes go offline, there is often a gap in tracking. The resulting data remains incomplete, and decision makers can only make a rough estimate of returns from Facebook ads. nine0003

Therefore, Facebook offers to use its solution to evaluate offline actions after viewing or interacting with ads. At the same time, there are other methods for assessing data on the achievement of goals.

You can go one of two ways, namely:

Try to get the user back online after the conversion.
Upload data from offline to Facebook.

How can I get the user back online

The first solution of the two will require you to take additional steps. You can invite customers to leave a review or take a similar action on the site.

Here you should look for email marketing tools, chatbots or other channels that will help you bring back users who converted offline.

An individually configured event can be triggered on the site, which will allow you to track the completion of the final actions using the Pixel. nine0003

Here is an example of such a scheme:

A person makes a purchase at a physical location and is issued a loyalty card. At the same time, card activation requires a login through the Facebook application. As a result, the purchase event takes place offline, and you will receive the same data that was used to register on Facebook.

You can also use Facebook's offline data upload solution.

This is the "Offline Events" tool found in the Events Manager. nine0003

When should you use offline events?

If customers pay for services and goods offline, creating an offline event group helps track results and optimize ad impressions.

Read also: How to attract users to offline locations and evaluate offline advertising results

Here are 3 main advantages of offline data connection: nine0006

Added data about users who have already completed the target action makes it possible to optimize ad impressions to achieve the final result.

You will be able to create an audience from users who completed offline actions to further work with this audience and create a similar one.

With all the obvious advantages of such a tool, it has not yet gained wide popularity among advertisers.

There are at least two reasons for this:

The process of manually loading data is quite laborious and long.
Due to partial data loss, this process may not be as expected.

Further in the article, we will give the minimum recommendations for working with data that you should definitely follow in advance. But first, let's look at the reason for such a volume of work.

Why does Facebook need you to clearly structure the data, and what does it do with it afterwards?

The first thing to note is that the process of creating offline events is a process of bringing together data of different types. nine0003

Data types used in advertising

Data can be first-party, second-party and third-party, offline and online.

If everything is clear with the difference between offline and online data, then the first-party data and third-party data categories should be analyzed in more detail.

First-party data - advertiser's or brand's own data collected directly from customers. An example of such data is a name and email address.

Second-party data is data from advertising services based on the results of advertising activities. For consideration of the current issue, we will leave them unattended for the time being. nine0003

Third-party data is a database that is collected on external platforms, in particular in payment systems, and on third-party sites through cookies and pixel tags.

You upload your first-party offline data to Facebook, where third party online data is stored. This process is called "onboarding" data.

During onboarding, data from you and from the data provider - Facebook in our case - are matched. That is, there is a match.

Matching is usually understood as the creation of a temporary connection between the user's personal data - name, address, phone number - and digital identifiers: cookies, IP addresses, device IDs, etc. nine0003

For protection purposes, personal data is anonymized. The Facebook system uses data hashing to do this.

During hashing, the customer's data is converted by the system into an anonymous cipher.

Here are the steps in this process:

1. You start uploading the data, and it is transformed into encrypted digital fingerprints before entering the Facebook system.
2. Facebook sets a match between these keys and its users. nine0031 3. From the users who were found by matches, an individual audience is formed.
4. All hashed data - matched and not - are deleted.

Hashed data is matched, offline data is onboarded online, and you get your customer list.

Sounds heavy, doesn't it?

The Facebook system performs this process on the scale of the largest international community of users. Therefore, with all the desire of the platform to ensure the most efficient use of data, you cannot avoid losses and delays. nine0003

Here's what's happening on the system side. Now the question remains what the advertiser should do.

Methods for uploading offline data to the Facebook platform

In order for optimization for offline conversions based on uploaded data to become available in the final, you need to create an Offline Events Group before launching the campaign.

You will upload data to this group, correlate it with active advertising campaigns and observe the dynamics.

This process can be done in one of three ways:

automatically via API connection,
automatically through partners,
by manual downloads.

API connection allows you to perform a one-time integration and receive data at a set frequency through automated download.

To do this, you need to create an application in the Business Manager Application Panel.

In order for the data sent via the application API to be correctly identified by the system, you must specify all the necessary commands in the code and adhere to the established limits:

Conversion data must be uploaded within the first 62 days after it is reached.
The maximum time span for linking conversions and clicks/ad views is 28 days.
Therefore, data transfer via the API must occur within 90 days after the click/view of the ad.

You can read more about getting started with the API and technical settings in the corresponding Facebook help section.

In addition, Facebook has a list of integrated partners. You can link your account in an external system to Business Manager and download data from this external system. nine0003

Integrated partners include loyalty solutions, call center systems, CRM systems, and integration platforms such as Leadsbridge, Zapier, and Segment.

If the API or partner integration did not work out for you, you will have to upload the data manually.

Before downloading offline events, you must create an Offline event set.

How to create an Offline event set

In the Events Manager click on Connect data source and select the data source you want to connect. nine0006
Select Offline and accept the terms of the Facebook policy.
Specify a name for the Offline event set (required) and a description (optional).
Specify which ad account (or several) to bind the created Offline event set to. This will allow in the future to bind this Offline event set to all created advertising accounts.
Assign people and roles and click Finish. The list of offline events has been created, which means you can proceed to downloading offline data. nine0006

How to download offline data manually

Find the event group you need in Events Manager and open it.
Click the "Select CSV file" button or drag and drop a .csv data file into the appropriate field.
Perform data category mapping - make sure the customer data is sent to the customer data column. The same for event data.

4. Run a data check.

The system will display a preliminary result for you - an approximate match indicator for a file fragment. If the intermediate result satisfies you, you can go ahead and upload the full list to the system. nine0003

Before the final boot, the system will display possible errors and recommendations for correction for you.

The comments in this part largely duplicate the recommendations for data preparation, although you can see more specific tips for your file:

It is desirable that the date of the event be within 48 hours from the time of upload.
It is mandatory that the gap between the event and the download does not exceed 90 days.
If the time of each event is the same, the system considers this as duplicate data. It is advisable to specify the most accurate time - up to minutes and seconds. This is done on the principle of operation of a conventional offline store, where it is physically impossible to punch two goods through the checkout at the same time. nine0006
The system will ask for more data about users - not only addresses, but also names, age, gender.
The event must be selected from the standard list.
If you select, for example, the Purchase event, the system will ask you to specify the cost for it. If the cost is the same everywhere, this is considered a defect, and the system will advise you to double-check the data.
The recommendations will also ask you to indicate the ID of the purchased product.

In addition, the offline event group must be linked to an active ad account, and the event date must follow the date when offline data was linked to the ad account. nine0003

You can always read the recommendations for working with offline event data in the Facebook help.

How the offline data should look like in the end

To manually upload the data, you need to prepare a .csv file.

This file will look like a table with columns, where the first line will be the data type. Each column is a new data type, each row is a new event.

The two tips Facebook cites as "the most important":

Always include country code in phone numbers.
Always indicate the country, even if all customers are from the same location, because Facebook processes data internationally.

You can also find a table in the help with formatting examples for all possible data types.

What difficulties you may encounter along the way

After completing the painstaking download process, there is no absolute guarantee that you will get all your clients from offline to online. nine0003

Mainly because they can provide different data, for example:

when customers leave a phone and mail with which they do not register anywhere,
when customers are registered in your database under corporate mail, and on Facebook - under personal,
when the system does not have enough keys to determine the connection.

In this case, there are two options - either proceed from an imperfect picture of the data, or try to get users back online. nine0003

At Median ads, we often go for the second option based on our experience building the customer journey. We will talk about this in the blog later. If your business just needs such a solution, feel free to contact us for help, we will be glad to see you as our client.

One way or another, Facebook never stops working on its functionality and tracking mechanics. In the future, we may well expect to improve the system to a new level. Therefore, we are waiting for new products and testing their practical application. nine0003

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Tutorials

How to be offline on Facebook from your mobile phone

Mobile

Since you have downloaded Facebook and Messenger applications on your mobile phone, you can't do without them: both allow you to keep in touch with friends, family, colleagues, etc. Always and in any case, in good and bad weather . and especially on the move. Anyway, everything is very interesting, as the song says. It’s a pity that, being also a “mere mortal”, from time to time you want to be a little alone with yourself and don’t want to be contacted through the famous social network and its chat by people you already know, but at the moment you don’t know how to do it. nine0003

Right? How to do? Legitimate question, moreover. If you give me a few minutes of your precious time, I can explain it to you, both in terms of Android as well as iOS. Sit back, take your mobile phone and read this article of mine on cómo estar sin conexión en Facebook desde tu móvil. Todo lo que tienes que hacer es cambiar tu estado en el chat de Messenger, nada complicado en definitiva. Otra forma de estar desconectado es salir del chat de la red social. Si entonces, en lugar de estar desconectado para todos, quieres aparecer desconectado solo para algunos usuarios, será un placer para mí explicarte cómo proceder incluso en este caso pero, te advierto de inmediato, la única forma de pasar desde el móvil es la del bloqueo . nine0003

Then? How about putting the talk aside and finally taking action? Yes? Excellent? Therefore, I suggest not to waste any more time and get to work right away. In the end, you see, you will be able to say that you are happy and satisfied with what you have learned. I wish you, as always, good reading.

Go offline on Facebook from Android
- Change your status in Messenger
- Sign out of Messenger
Go offline on Facebook from your iPhone
- Change your status in Messenger
- Log out of messenger
Connect to Facebook from your mobile phone by blocking certain users

Index

1 Go offline to Facebook 9005 from Android
Messenger
1.2 Sign out of messenger

2 Disconnect on Facebook from your iPhone

2.1 Change your status in Messenger
2. 2 Sign out of messenger

3 Log out of Facebook on your mobile phone by blocking certain users

Go offline on Facebook from Android

You are using an Android mobile phone and want to know how to log out of Facebook offline from your mobile phone? Then follow the instructions I gave below and you will know right away.

Change your status in Messenger

If you want to be offline on Facebook while operating from Android, you need to switch to using Messenger. So, the first step you have to take is to launch the application of the well-known home messaging service Facebook (with a blue globe and a white beam in the center), which is located on the screen of the device on which the icons of all applications, then you need to touch the symbol dos hombres which is below.

On the currently displayed screen, select tab active who knows and go OFF switch next to your name so that its color changes from blue to grey. Ready!

This way you will continue to receive all the messages that other users send you, but because of them you will be absent from Facebook or rather Messenger. In turn, I want to clarify this, however, I could not see other users on the network.

If you later want to publish your status on a social network, just press the i symbol again dos hombres at the bottom of the Messenger app screen and tap the switch at the top next to your name to set it to EN. Lighter than this?

Sign out of Messenger

Another way to sign out of Facebook from your mobile phone is to sign out of Messenger. Unfortunately, there is currently no dedicated option in the social network messaging app, but the system still exists, although it may not be entirely intuitive.

To do this, you actually have to intervene from the Android settings. So, first of all, click on the configuration icon (the one with the gear) that is on the layout screen, which also has the icons of all other applications, and then select the element, Application , which is applications or the spelling Application management in the menu that opens (if you do not see any of these items on the first try, first enter the section General ).

Now select the Mensajero icon in the list of applications installed on the device, tap Clear data and then tap OK in response to the question that appears on the screen to confirm your choice. In doing so, all application data, including data related to your account, will be deleted and therefore you will be logged out and offline on Facebook for other users.

Obviously, to be able to restore your online status, simply launch the Messenger app again by clicking its icon (the one with the blue globe and white beam in the center) on the device diagram where all the others are also apps and sign in to your account record. nine0003

As an alternative to the procedure I just pointed out, you can disconnect from Facebook in such a way that you disconnect by closing the session associated with the main application. To do this, open the social network application by touching its icon (blue with the letter "f"), then press the button with three horizontal lines which is located in the upper left corner, scroll down the screen that opens and select the item Account settings.

At this stage, we will focus on the formulation Security and access go to section Active sessions and delete the session associated with Messenger for Android by pressing the button "X" found in the correspondence with the latter. And voila !

Then, when you want to reconnect to Facebook, simply open the Messenger app again, log in, and follow the initial app setup procedure, much the same as what was prompted you when you launched the app when you downloaded it to your device. nine0003

Log out of your iPhone on Facebook

Do you have an iPhone and want to know how to log out of your mobile phone? Then read the instructions on what to do below and you'll know it in no time. As in the case of Android, everything is very simple here, you don't have to worry about anything.

Change your Messenger status

If you intend to disconnect on Facebook from your mobile phone by acting on your status in the Facebook Messenger app for iOS, the first step you need to take is to launch the latter by clicking on the corresponding icon (with blue globe on white background) is present on the home screen and then you need to touch item People which is at the bottom of the open screen and you need to open OFF the switch you find at the top corresponds to your name, so it changes color from green to white. Ready!

By doing so, you will continue to receive all messages that other users decide to write to you, but in their eyes you will be absent from Facebook and in turn, keep this in mind, you will no longer be able to see users connected at this time . nine0003

Obviously, when and if you want, you can always reconnect by going back to the People section of the Messenger app and opening the EN toggle next to your name at the top of the screen.

Sign out of the messenger

As with Android, on the iPhone, another effective way not to connect to Facebook from your mobile phone is to disconnect from the social network chat. All you have to do is open the Facebook app on your "iPhone" by touching its icon (with the letter "f" on a blue background) on the home screen, press the button with three horizontal lines which is in the lower right corner, tap the text Settings and privacy and select account settings in the menu that opens.

On the next screen, enter the wording Security and Access , find the section Where are you connected? who knows at the top of the screen and exit facebook messenger (you can find it clearly marked under the name of the device you are using) by pressing the button with three points vertically, which you will find in your correspondence and select from in the menu that appears.

If you continue as I just indicated and can't find an item related to Messenger, first click on Miscellaneous. Si tampoco puede encontrarlo de esta manera, puede solucionarlo fácilmente cerrando todas las sesiones de la red social, excepto la actual y la de la Pc.

Log out on Facebook from your mobile phone by blocking certain users

As mentioned at the beginning of the article, if you want to be offline on Facebook from your mobile phone (and not only) only for certain users, you can go the blocking route. However, in this particular case, keep in mind that the person you will act with will not only no longer be able to see your online status on Facebook, but will also be removed from your friends, will no longer see you among registered users and neither will you even see it more. all its contents and activities. In short, the case is a little wider, so to speak, more radical than that described in the previous lines. nine0003

Therefore, in light of what has just been said, I suggest that you think very carefully before proceeding in this way, since if you later want to repeat your steps, you will have to ask the contact person again for friendship and the latter, most likely , will. ask questions about it. So don't tell me I didn't warn you.

However, if you are interested in performing the operation in question, what you need to do on both Android and iOS is to launch the official application of the well-known social network on your smartphone by clicking on its icon (the one with the letter "F" on the blue background) is present on the screen where all applications are grouped, and to access the profile of the referenced user, tap the search bar located at the top, enter the name of the person you want to block, and tap on the icon Loupe and then select the profile you are interested in from the search results.

Press the button quickly [. ..] (on Android) or on what Other (on iOS) under the profile photo of the person you want to block and for whom you intend not to connect to the chat, press this element block in the menu that opens and confirm your desire by clicking again on to lock in response to the warning that appears on the screen.

In addition to this, as I just pointed out, you can block a specific user on Facebook by going to the Messenger app. To do this, first find the referring user's profile by pressing the i symbol on the application screen. dos hombres at the bottom (on Android) or edited by People (on iOS) and then clicking the map Toda which is at the top and then clicking on it. If you wish, you can also perform a specific search by clicking on the field search at the top and write the person's name.

On the next screen, press the button "the" at the top right or the referring user's name is always placed at the top, stop at edit lock at the bottom of the screen, and then select Block [nome utente] on Facebook (on Android) or Block on Facebook (on iOS).