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Stephen Link
Stephen Link

Reputation: 11

Facebook Private Message

I am seeing replies to this same question with a NO answer, but they are a couple of months old. I am hoping that things may have changed since then.

Here is the situation. I have a program for managing rent (desktop app). I would like to have the renters sign up to receive private reminders into their Facebook inbox. I know that the user of the program would need a facebook account and the renter would have to be a friend. It seems that the API could check for these two criteria and then allow a private message between the two.

Sending email is easy and it looks like this is easily accomplished for Twitter. Can it be done in FB?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 669

Answers (3)

Lix
Lix

Reputation: 47966

You can not send private messages to users in Facebook. This feature would be a massive vulnerability for spam. @DMCS's answer is the most feasible - request the users email address with the email permission and send them regular emails.

Upvotes: 1

DMCS
DMCS

Reputation: 31870

For apps to communicate directly with users, Facebook strongly recommends you request the email permission (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/permissions/) when presenting the user with the login dialog.

Once you have their permission, you can then email them from your app using the email field that is part of the /me object (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/) in the Graph API (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api).

Happy coding!

Upvotes: 2

kidosu
kidosu

Reputation: 393

If the user has a Facebook username, rather than just a numbered profile, this should be easy, as their Facebook email address, which goes to their Facebook private message inbox, would be [email protected]. (At one point, Facebook users had to opt in to these addresses, so I'm not certain if all Facebook accounts with usernames also have addresses, but many of them do.)

Upvotes: -1

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