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Search history on how to delete messages

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tired365 · 02/09/2018 10:23

Had to search on bf phone for something quickly on the internet, and he had loads of different safari pages open, one was ‘how to delete search history on Facebook messenger?’
what does that mean?? I wasn’t being nosey and looking, just came up!
AIBU to ask him about it, or just leave it?

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Monday55 · 02/09/2018 10:40

Maybe he's been searching for ex gf names and now wants it to disappear ?

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tired365 · 02/09/2018 10:43

Been with him over 4 years and he has no interest in his ex gf so don’t think it would be that, I dunno what it could of beenConfused

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toothtruth · 02/09/2018 10:48

that would imply to me hes been looking for old messages. I wouldnt get too worried about that tbh. I think most people have done that at some point. Id just leave it. Hes just probably embarassed that he was looking at an exes old messages. I think if it were anything that bad hed be deleting actual messages not the search history.

AjasLipstick · 02/09/2018 10:48

Messages are different to looking for a girl's names. Messenger shows conversations.

He must have been having a flirty talk with someone or an affair.

toothtruth · 02/09/2018 10:53

or it could just be a random thing he was looking up how to do? I was looking up about how to use a vpn and use Tor browser the other day... just because id seen a news story about it and wanted to know how it all worked.... but it would probably look very odd if someone had casually glanced at the tabs I had open at that point lol!!
My husband always has some completely random tabs open (we share a laptop) Everything from serial killers to how to re wire plug sockets...

toothtruth · 02/09/2018 10:55

but to delete search history he will have been wanting to delete looking for a particular thread... which implies its from the past. He would not have had to search for a conversation if it were recent as it would just be at the top of his messenger page.... so its very unlikely to be an affair

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 02/09/2018 11:41

What did the search say - your title and OP would return different results; so it's important. Do you remember?

ilovesooty · 02/09/2018 12:03

Ask him if it bothers you that much.
I don't see why it's likely to have been any big deal.

DreamingofEden · 02/09/2018 12:08

I have searched for similar in the past. I looked up an ex colleague as after an argument someone very like him was hanging around our front garden very early in the morning and late at night. I thought he wasn't in the UK and honestly thought I was going crazy.

I then panicked about how it may add me to his "suggested friends" list due to the Facebook algorithm.

Another option may be that he's been looking for a gift for you - it would be obvious from some searches what he was getting for you if you saw the search history.

However, the best course of action is to just ask if it is bothering you enough to question a bunch of strangers on the internet, you must have some suspicions or anxieties relating to it.

Redken24 · 02/09/2018 12:09

Sorry but I Google the same and how to delete history from browser. Usually to do with app space.

longwayoff · 02/09/2018 12:25

Needing space on his phone I would think.

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