Filter Your Message Inbox on Facebook with HTC One M8

Edited by Thor, Crystal, Eng

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Steps

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    To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the power button located on top of the phone
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    Once the phone has been activated we will see the lock screen.
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    To unlock the phone, swipe the screen up
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    Once the phone has been unlocked we will see the home screen, and at the bottom we will see 5 icons. We now need to open the application folder.
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    We can do that by tapping the icon in the middle, at the bottom of the screen
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    There is a grid of white dots. This is the icon for the applications folder.
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    Now that the folder has been opened, we need to find and tap the Facebook application
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    There is a Facebook icon, which is a blue background with a white "f" inside, and underneath it says the word "Facebook". Your application may be in a different location, so look for the icon in your folder. We now need to find the account settings menu.
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    To do that, we need to tap the menu icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen
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    There are three gray horizontal lines.
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    Scroll up or down to find "Account Settings", and tap on it
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    There will be a gray circle with a white head and shoulders and gear inside. This will open up the account settings menu.
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    Tap on the "Privacy" option
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    Scroll down and press down on the option labeled "Whose messages do I want filtered into my inbox?"
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    Underneath it says "Basic Filtering", indicating that this option is currently selected.
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    Tap on the chosen option
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    The first option is "Basic Filtering", which is recommended. Underneath it says "Mostly see messages from friends or people you may know". Underneath the other option, "Strict Filtering", it says "Mostly see messages from friends. Messages from people you want to hear from may go to your other folder". One is more relaxed, which is "Basic Filtering", the option currently selected. We will receive messages from our friends as well as people we may know. People we may know will include friends of friends or someone that we are in a group with. If we select "Strict Filtering", it's only going to allow our friends to send us a message. For everyone else, the message will go to the other folder. We're going to press down on "Strict Filtering", and the blue check mark will move to that option. This will take us back to the "Privacy" menu.
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    Now it says "Strict Filtering" underneath the option, indicating that the option was successfully selected
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    If we want to, we can press down on the option again to change it. We will see that the blue check mark has moved and we can change it back to "Basic Filtering" if we desire.
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    This concludes the tutorial on how to filter your message inbox in Facebook on an HTC One M8
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    If you have any questions, comments or queries about this video, or about the process that you have seen in this video, then please leave them in the comment section below, and we will answer them for you. Thank you for watching VisiHow.
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Recent edits by: Crystal, Thor

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