There are several ways you can cut ties with an annoying Facebook friend, contact or user. Perhaps, somebody on Facebook is pestering you with messages or you simply want to unfriend that person for certain other reasons.

Facebook Messenger, which is the instant messaging app of the Facebook social network, lets you streamline your Facebook contacts. Put simply, the app enables you to sync contacts both from your smartphone and your Facebook app. On Facebook Messenger, you can be sure of chatting with all of your Facebook friends without any need for visiting the web-based Facebook.

In this post, you’ll find out the easy steps for deleting or blocking Facebook contacts inclusive of friends and non-friends.

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Steps for Blocking or Deleting a Contact on Facebook Messenger

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Launch the Messenger app on your Android phone and explore your Messenger contacts
Locate the contact you wish to block/delete
Press and hold the contact’s icon until a tab with three options appears
From the options, select the option with three white horizontal lines
Doing the latter triggers a menu with several options
Choose Block or Delete from the options
By selecting Delete, the contact in question will be removed from your Facebook Messenger as well as your chats with the contact
Additionally, you may have to click the recycle bin button in order to completely delete your conversation history with the contact/friend

The steps outlined above are typically for blocking or deleting a Facebook friend via the Messenger app. In order to block a non-friend Facebook user via Messenger, you may follow the steps below:

Open the Messenger app on your smartphone
Locate the contact you wish to block and click it
The subsequent on-screen page displays three blue icons on the right-hand side
Click the icon resembling (i)
This will trigger a menu with several options
Scroll down to the option Block and select it

Steps to Completely Delete Someone via Messenger

The steps earlier provided on deleting or blocking somebody in Messenger might not remove that person completely, probably causing you to still have them as a contact in Facebook people app. And should this be the case, that person is still at liberty of sending you messages.

To completely delete someone via Messenger, you first have to delete them from the app, block all messages with them and then strike them out of your Facebook.

Launch the Messenger app from Facebook and enter the search widget to find the friend or contact
Tap the contact and then select the gear-like icon
Choose the option Block messages and then tap the Delete option
This will trigger a pop-up displaying Delete Conversation
Choose Delete (to erase your conversations with the person) or Archive (to archive the conversations)
With that done, you’ll now have to explore the People app in Facebook and locate the deleted friend
In the People app, locate the Friends tab and select the three dots near it
Select the Unfriend icon you see and sign out of Facebook
By the time you sign in again, you’ll observe that the friend has been completely removed and so, they can no longer send you messages

Conclusion

We hope the steps in this post have helped you remove or delete a Facebook friend. Meanwhile, it’s essential you decide whether to only block somebody or completely delete them from your Facebook. This is because you can easily unblock a blocked person with your chat history with them still intact but in the case of deleting a person completely (when you follow the steps we provided), you’ll no longer have access to your chat history with them.