If you are one of those people who regularly uses Facebook Messenger You must know a function or feature that many people do not know and that can be very useful to you. And it is that although you do not know it, you have to know that you can give nicknames to your contacts in the conversations you have with other people.
This can be of great help when it comes to easily identifying other people, something that can be very useful to be able to differentiate between those people that we have stored and that have a similar name. In this case we are going to explain how to change the nickname of your contacts in facebook messenger so that you do not have any type of doubt about it if you decide to do it.
Steps to change the nickname of a contact in Facebook Messenger
Facebook Messenger is an instant messaging application that allows us to send and receive text messages, in addition to sharing images, files, etc. In addition, it is another option to make video and voice calls. However, when you have many contacts on the platform it can become a bit confusing, especially since it may be the case that you have several contacts that have a similar name.
To solve this problem, for a long time, the Messenger application allows add a custom nickname to contacts. However, it is a function that is rarely used or that, by many people, is unknown. However, the process is very simple to carry out, and in this case we are going to give you all the instructions you need to know for it. The steps are the following:
Download Facebook Messenger on mobile
The first step you must follow is download the facebook messenger app on mobile if you do not have it, since this option is only available through the mobile app, and it cannot be changed if you use Messenger on the web.
In this way, if you have not yet downloaded it to your mobile, you can do so through the Google Play Store or the App Store if you have a mobile device with an Apple operating system.
Select the Facebook Messenger contact
Once you have downloaded or already have the Facebook Messenger application installed on your smartphone, you will have to start the application to go to the contact list that appears on the screen and search and select the one whose nickname you want to change. By this we mean what appears at the top of the conversations you have with that person.
To do this, you will have to click on the first chat tab that we find at the top, selecting the chat with that contact to enter it. In addition, it is also possible to click on the icon of the person to reach the contacts tab and proceed to search for the contact in question, in which case we will have to search for it by name among all the friends and contacts that we have on the network Facebook social, where this instant messaging application is used, which is a great alternative to WhatsApp and other similar apps.
Show profile information
Once the above is done, we will already be in the chat of our contact and we will be able to find that on the right side it appears an icon with the “i” symbol for information, represented by a white letter “i” inside a blue circle. Click on this icon.
Doing so will take us to a screen in which all the data of the contact in question will appear, as well as other options such as being able to make an audio call, a video call, view the profile, mute the contact, create groups...
In the main part of this screen we see the option that we are looking for in this case and that is called Nicknames, which is the one we have to click on this time.
Enter a new nickname to the Facebook Messenger contact
Clicking on them will take us to a new screen with our profile and the photograph of the chosen person, in addition to the option define nickname in both. In this way we will have the possibility of giving ourselves a nickname too, but in this case, since we only want to do it to the other person, click on our contact.
When we do it, you will see how a window appears on the screen of our smartphone, where we will only have to write the desired nickname to identify that person in the conversations that we have through Facebook Messenger from that moment on, and finally we will click on Save.
From now on, if we go to the conversation with that person on Facebook Messenger we will see how the message appears at the top of the chat. contact nickname that we have determined instead of its name. This change will also be present in the chat history, where this new nickname will appear instead of your name.
However, when doing so you should keep in mind that the other person will see what you do, so you have to avoid calling names that could be offensive or that you don't want the other person to know, since she will know the nickname you have given her in the conversation, so you have to be careful when using this function so as not to make certain mistakes that could lead to some kind of disagreement or anger.
On the other hand, keep in mind that when carrying out the mentioned nickname change, this name will only change the nickname within the chat conversation that we have with that person, so in other places, such as the contacts tab, it will continue to appear with his real name that he has given himself on Facebook. In any case, nicknames can be very useful when it comes to more quickly identifying people in conversations.