UPDATE: This method is obsolete, but it still works! There’s an easier way in my opinion, but it’s up to you which way you like more!
Although I haven’t figured out how to save a full chat message with someone, after about a whole lot of time fiddling around, I figured out how to see the first 100-200 messages! It’s actually pretty easy, and of course, since this is a how to guide, it just so happens that I’m going to show you how to do this yourself. To start, go to http://m.facebook.com/messages/ (Yes, I do realize this is the mobile version of Facebook for phones.) Then click the person you want to see the first message with. Here, you’ll see the latest messages with them. Before discovering this trick, I would click “See older messages” until my computer would crash. But that’s not a very effective way of getting to the first message when there’s over 50,000 logged and it only cues 60 at a time and only 7-10 on the mobile version. To avoid this, right click the ”See older messages” button and click “open in new tab” or something that relates to that depending on what browser you use. Now, the link will appear in a new tab and it should look something like this:
m.facebook.com/messages/read/?forward=0&start=52695&page_size=7&tids=numbers=inbox&tid=numbers&see_older=1&refid=12
From here, all you have to do is change the “start=52695” (yours will be another number) to ”start=a low number like 200” And that’s it! You will still have to click ”See older messages” a bit to get through those 100-200 messages, but it’s nothing compared to going through 50,000 messages first! Now, I wasn’t so lucky. I can’t see the first message because Facebook chat only saved the messages starting on April 14th, 2010 and I got a Facebook in late 2009. But it’s still a marvel to see how awkward you were with someone, or to see how you spoke to someone back then, and how much you’ve grown closer to them. Sometimes, talking with someone can evolve from a “hey” “hey” “sup” “nmjc u?” to entire paragraphs and pages where you don’t even say hey, but rather, jump right into talking with the person and this is a great way to see how much you’ve grown.
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ommggg!!!!!! thank you so much!! that helped me so much and it was time saving thankk you ver mmuch
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Where’s the ‘see older messages’ button? sorry, im a little dumb.
Right toward the top of the message with the person (On the mobile link)
Thank you.
thank you veru much ..but i still didnt find my first message
I have actually just discovered that a couple of weeks ago.. But one question for you please.. You say FB only started saving messages in April 2010.. but for some reason I only can go back to June 2012 with a particular person (and i only have 21000 message with that person and not 50000 as in your case).. Any ideas? thx
btw, i actually was able to see messages as far as 2008.. except for that one person, it goes to June 2012 only!
I tried to do this with both my phone and my computer, but my iPhone won’t open a new tab and my computer loads the messages before I can click on “See older messages” what can I do?
I cant see the start= ……
Try adding it just as you see in the example to the end of the link. It SHOULD work
I dont get that link, not that with ”start” :/
Can you explain more in depth as to what you did? I can’t really help you if I don’t know how far you got.
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“Then click the person you want to see the first message with. Here, you’ll see the latest messages with them. Before discovering this trick, I would click “See older messages” until my computer would crash. But that’s not a very effective way of getting to the first message when there’s over 50,000 logged and it only cues 60 at a time and only 7-10 on the mobile version.” But I cannot See The Numbers Of Latest Messages ! :/
Oh! Don’t worry about those numbers! Those are only for reference. It’s not part of the guide. Just continue to the next sentence.
Super Miracle .. Love u i did as &start=11562&page_size=11562 Got all messages .
I tried Hard from 1 day searching in Google .. Finally Urs Tips worked .
Thanku Thanku Thanku
Super Miracle .. Love u , i did as &start=11562&page_size=11562 Got all messages . I tried Hard from 1 day searching in Google .. Finally Urs Tips worked .
Thanku Thanku Thanku
Great to hear!
Well, I did as you told but I don”t get the link as you say it should be…. I only get: http://www.facebook.com/messages/1022860250 , nothing with start or something. And the way of trying to ” see older messages” won’t help me either…
That’s because you’re on regular facebook. You have to go to the mobile site.
Hold on so this is what I get before I do anything like clicking on the load more messages.
https://m.facebook.com/messages/?_rdr#!/messages/read/?tid=id.175968485869252&__user=100003851276900
And when I do right click load more messages on a pc it just sends me back to regular fb
Where am I supposed to add a number?? Btw I’m doing this on an iPod instead
I’m not sure if it’ll work from an ipod. I’ve never tried it on one. I guess on an ipod, you have to hold down the words that say click to see older messages and then open in new tab. That should work, but i’m not sure. Good luck!
thanks, worked
great stuff
I don’t know where the but where u change the 64636 or whatever to 200, please help
You have to right click on see older messages and open in a new tab.
Cheers!
it worked on my mobile but on my pc i dnt know how
Thanks for this , helped me remember the most important message and saved me from the breakup with my girlfriend
does it work if you’ve deleted it out of your archived? and want to try and re read them?
Hey, I followed your advice and it has worked, but it only goes back to Feb 2011…
Oh this is soooo wonderful. Thanks for sharing
. So easy 
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O MY GOD! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! YOU’RE A GENIUS BRO..
OMG! My girlfriend is changing her account tomorrow and I as so afraid all our chats would be lost! Plus, I’ve have done the scrolly thingy, but when you have over 31k messages I could be here all week! I input “1″ on the search bar and ir came up her very first contact with me. I am going to copy/paste ALL our convos. I sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart! I cannot wait to show her the beginning of our friendship chats and all that has transpired until now! I am so happy I could cry!!! ^-^
Dude! You are the man! That worked exactly as you said! I liked ya page and i hope a few more people do too coz you must be getting a bit of traffic from Google!
Sensational hack there and I’m going to put it out to a shit load of people on some big pages! I typed in 200 as you suggested and the first message i saw with this particular person was so epic that i screen grabbed and will be showing them tomorrow. They are going to piss themselves laughing!
Well done and sensational form there!