Facebook Messenger – How to Disable ‘Send a Birthday Message!’

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In Facebook comes always the notification "Send a birthday message!" in the messenger everytime when Facebook friends have their birthday.

There is no push message, but the icon gets the red notification sign, which is kinda anoying, because I have to check it then for new messages which I may have received.

It looks like this in a web browser:

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The birthday notifications are turned of in general in my Facebook profile, but these messages are still showing up since a few weeks.

How can I switch off these notifications?

Best Answer

It seems that the source of those messenger birthday notifications is M, Facebook's virtual assistant / bot.

M was killed in January 2018, so it probably won't suggest any more birthday greetings such as those.