[jazzyjackson]

Not afraid to admit I like to pretend I haven't seen a message until I can make time to actually respond to it, if its a message asking something of me.

Maybe I should type a response the moment I receive the text across my phone alerts, but I want the freedom to defer it without having you think I'm ignoring you (even tho I am)

[hombre_fatal]

You can accomplish that today just by reading the notification instead of clicking into the conversation. Everyone does it.

I think the "seen" feature is a net positive though. Almost everyone likes it from the PoV of the sender.

[nrmitchi]

I believe that the iOS app started preventing these recently; I noticed that all of my Messenger notifications stopped including the text of the message, instead just stating "<name> sent a message." (or something of the like), forcing you to actually open the app.

Lets just say it was not my favorite change, and not just for the privacy reasons under discussion.

[zimpenfish]

> I noticed that all of my Messenger notifications stopped including the text of the message

Isn't that a preference in the notifications setting? "Show Previews" gives the options of "Always", "When Unlocked (Default)", "Never". Perhaps it's just defaulted to "When Unlocked" after an update?

[nrmitchi]

I did just check, and it is set as "When Unlocked (default)". The unlocked screen does just show a no-preview Messenger notification, the actual preview text seems to be being provided to iOS as "<name> sent a message".

[bcherny]

I do the same. I do feel ok not responding right away after I see a message, though. I wonder if it’s a cultural expectation that is/will change over time.

[rvSGK4]

I'm not sure if that's still the case, but a few years ago you could block the ACK so the other parties couldn't know that you read the message [1]

[1] https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/message_seen_remo...