Messages delivered on Facebook messenger

[Floral89x]

I messaged someone on Facebook who I knew but don't have anymore as a Facebook friend (I deleted them a while back over something they did to me and i cut them out , but I forgave them and put it behind me eventually)
Anyway he is in a country working abroad where restrictions and bans etc. Are now in place. I haven't heard from him for ages and I have no idea if he's alright, but with all this going on I sent a message.
It's been 'delivered' on messenger I.e. The blue circle with a tick, but not read yet.
I don't have his number anymore and Im worried that if we are not friends on Facebook the message will go into his 'spam' area and will never be read.
Or does everyone get a notification anyway ?

I think it goes into the message requests folder and won't generate an automatic notification

I agree with the above, only i seem to sometimes get a notification about a message request and other times i discover them months later, seems to be no logic to it.
Can you friend request him? I know after deleting someone the friend request button can disappear but should come back after about a year.

It will be in his other folder, he may take a long time to find it as I didn't realise I had about 3 messages from a year ago that I didn't attend to ...sadly..

Thanks for the replies, in the end he read it and no reply..

Bit rude especially in times like these. Yes doesn't 'owe me anything' i know, but still.

Perhaps he is busy and your message isn't his number one priority right now? Messages are for convenience, people reply as and when they are free.

Of course, but it has been read and it doesn't take days to reply, it takes seconds.

I have real issues with messenger. The app does not work for me, but shows everyone else that I got it and read it. In fact, I cannot actually read the message unless I log into facebook website, which my iPad so old it takes ages to navigate round it. So I wait until it gets to a few messages before I log in that way.
It a pain

If I had beef with someone I’d take my time to respond to them too OP....

He shouldn't 'have beef' with me. He did something to me and as a result I cut him out, then we eventually made up. He has nothing to be angry towards me for.

I feel stupid for messaging him now tbh. Other people said they wouldn't give him the time of day, I guess I still have some feelings and that's why I messaged, but we had a long friendship.

But it's often not a case of "it takes seconds". Many a time, if you reply straight away, then then other person also replies straightaway and so on and so on. It becomes a conversation. Perhaps he is too busy invite a conversation right now.

No one is entitled to anyones time.

I've not said I am entitled. It's been several days, it literally takes one second to write, yes im ok thanks. If they have time to keep logging online they have time to reply.