How to load topmost oldest Facebook messages

Did you ever want to read your oldest Facebook messages? You know, the conversation you had with a dear friend many years back. Right now, Facebook chat doesn’t let you jump to a particular conversation at a particular point of time. Right now you can see the full conversations but when you try to load older messages you will find that that there are thousands of messages there and it takes a lot of scrolling to get to where you want to go. Fortunately, there is a small trick that will help you jump to the very first conversation you had with your buddies. Even after applying this trick, you might need to scroll up a bit to get to the begin of your old conversations.

How to load the top most messages on Facebook

Open mobile.facebook.com/messages on your desktop browser
Now select the person whose messages(conversations) you want to read
Right click “see older messages” and select “Copy link address”
Now open a new tab and paste the copied link there
Now from the pasted link delete the portion starting from &last_message_timestamp = ………
In the link there is another part that says start=7

This start=7 means Facebook will show you messages starting from the seventh most recent conversation. So the latest message is counted as 1. This means the oldest conversation is the total number of conversation you have had so far with that friend.

To view the total number of messages or conversations open Facebook.com (Desktop version). Click on messages >> Select a friend. Now scroll up to read latest conversations and you will see total message count inside brackets in this format: Loading Older Messages… (18074).

Quickly note that number. Now in the URL link, simply replace start=7 with start =18074. You can now read your Facebook messages or conversations from long time back.

How to see Facebook messages of a particular date

You can also apply similar trick to view the conversation of a particular date. For this, follow the same steps as above till Step 5. This time on step 6 don’t delete the portion: &last_message_timestamp =1457951363069. The “1457951363069” here is the timestamp in UNIX format. Simply replace this timestamp with your desired. You can use Unix Time Converter get the date and time in UNIX format.