# Need Facebook message help please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-facebook-message-help-please/798432>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 10, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-facebook-message-help-please/798432 "2017-10-10T02:27:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-facebook-message-help-please/798432/1 "2017-10-10T02:27:28Z")

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I composed a message and hit “enter” but it just sits there – no “message sent” indication, no check mark. Can anyone tell me what I’m missing here? Possibly related, while composing the message I hit “shift” and “enter” to make a paragraph break, but it didn’t work. I’m at a loss to understand this.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-facebook-message-help-please/798432/2 "2017-10-10T02:37:38Z")

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Problem sorta solved. Went to my friends list, clicked on recipient, clicked on message, wrote and sent one normally. Don’t know why it didn’t work when I started the process by clicking on “message.”