How to Unblock Someone on Facebook and Messenger [FAQ] – How do I view my blocked list

Have you blocked some of your Facebook messenger friends, intentionally or by accident? For whatever reason, if you have decided to unblock them again but don’t know how to do it, don’t worry we are here to show you how to accomplish this.

Facebook Messenger is an official messaging app introduced by Facebook that allows users to send text, make video calls, and voice calls with their friends on Facebook and Instagram. This app is available for download from Google Play Store users. However, if your friends or a user mess up with you on Messenger, you can block them from having interactions with them.

Blocking someone is a little easier than unblocking them. But that does not mean anything comes easy in life. Before you can unblock someone, you will wait for 48 hours and you have to learn how to unblock the person if you have not unblocked people before.

There is always a time in life when you decide to let go of the past and that is why you may want to unblock that friend that you blocked two years ago. It is a good thing anyways, to give some bad friends a second chance in your life especially when they feel sorry for their behaviors or mistakes. So if you want to unblock a friend right now., how do you do it? Now, there are the steps to take:

About Facebook

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, and since its launch in 2004, Facebook has evolved from one stage to another as days passed by. It is one of the world’s most popular and most use social media platforms, among other social media platforms such as Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, TickTock, and other social media platforms that young people spend their time on nowadays.

Recently, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook social media is now owned under Meta. Facebook is one platform that millions of people subscribe to, with so many accounts, some have two to three accounts depending on one challenge or the other.

It has become obvious that most new Facebook users, will rather choose to open a new Facebook account, once they can’t access the old one. They don’t know that you can actually recover the account, and this will result in them abandoning the account for a new one, not knowing that the old account is still active. It is on account of this kind of eventuality that people continue to have several Facebook accounts.

However, in this article, we will be talking about How to Unblock Someone on Facebook and Messenger, and possibly a quick guide on how to see the lists of your facebook friends that you’ve blocked so far.

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How You Can Find Blocked List on Messenger

If you have blocked many of your friend’s accounts on Messenger, but you don’t how many of them or the list of the blocked accounts, and now you want to see the list, this is how you can find it.

Step one, open the Messenger app on your phone
Step two, click on the profile icon you see at the top-left corner
Step three click on the Privacy and safety tab
In the final step, click on blocked accounts
Then you will see all the blocked accounts in your Messenger.

The effects of blocking Someone on Facebook Messenger

Blocking people or friends on Facebook is easy but not as easy as unblocking them. The idea is that If you block someone on Facebook Messenger, they will suffer some effects such as the people’s inability to send messages or call you. In case you don’t know, know that blocking someone on Facebook and blocking them on Messenger are two different things. This is what happens:

The former(blocker) will remove a friend from their friend list and stop/refuse them from seeing their (blocker) posts, photos, or interacting with your account in any manner.
The latter (blocker) only bans them(friends) from contacting or texting him/her(blocker), but it does not remove them from your friend list.

Why People Block Their Facebook Friends

Since we are different, with different characters, we also have our separate reasons for taking certain actions. What we consider as good may not go down well with another set of people, and that does not mean that they are bad. So let us look at the various reasons why people decide to block some of their friends on Facebook messenger.

For sending offensive messages comprising nudity, harassment, and what you do not want to view.
When you are unfamiliar with someone, that is you don’t know them and don’t want to chat with them for any reason whatsoever, but they are still attempting to contact you.
Also, you may even accidentally block someone without the intention of doing so

NOTE: if you block your friends whether intentionally or accidentally, you have to learn to unblock them too, but you must wait for 48 hours before unblocking them.

How to Unblock Someone on Facebook and Messenger

Steps To Remove Someone From The Messenger Block List (Android)

If you want to remove somebody from the messenger block list, these are the steps to take and successfully achieve your goal.

Firstly, launch the Messenger app on your phone
From your chats corner, click on your profile picture
Again on your menu, click on Privacy
Now click on People, blocked people
You will see unblock by the side of the person’s name
Finally, click on unlock on the Messenger
And then click confirm to ensure it is successful

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Steps To Remove Someone From The Messenger Block List (Desktop)

If you want to remove somebody from the messenger block list, these are the steps to take and successfully achieve your goal.

Enter your messenger for windows or macOS.
After that click on chats
Next thing, click on the settings
Close to your blocking select manage on Facebook.
Now click blocking on your Facebook settings
Then you scroll down to the block messages
You will see unblock by the side of the person’s name
Finally, click on Unlock
And then click confirm to ensure it is successful

Important Note

After unblocking someone on Facebook messenger, they will be able to read the Facebook postings that you have shared with the public but they will not automatically become your Facebook friends. So if you still want them to become your friend, then you will have to send them a new friend request. That is how to Unblock Someone on Facebook & Messenger [FAQ].

Conclusion

I hope this article was helpful to you because we have outlined all the steps you need to follow for you to see the list of blocked accounts in your messenger, and the steps on how to unblock someone. So if you have made up your mind to unblock someone, follow the steps. Please visit this page for more on this topic and drop us your comments.