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This wikiHow teaches you how to prevent certain friends on Facebook from seeing that you're online on both the mobile Facebook Messenger app and on Facebook's desktop website. For mobile, setting your Active status to "Off" in Facebook Messenger causes you to appear offline to everyone, so to appear offline to specific people it's recommended to temporarily block specific friends that you want to appear offline to. Using Facebook's desktop website, you can select to turn off Facebook chat for specific contacts which will make you appear offline to those contacts, but they will still be able to send you messages.
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Advertisement About This ArticleArticle SummaryX 1. Open Messenger. Did this summary help you? Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 880,600 times. Is this article up to date?Can you be online on Messenger without being active?Even when not active on Facebook Messenger, people can still see the green dot implying you are active on the Messenger platform. We've seen the various reasons why this can happen, with the main reason being that Messenger is still running in the background, and as its syncs, the active status keeps showing.
Can you make yourself inactive on Messenger to one person?For mobile, setting your Active status to "Off" in Facebook Messenger causes you to appear offline to everyone, so to appear offline to specific people it's recommended to temporarily block specific friends that you want to appear offline to.
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