Simply put, “PM” is an acronym for “Personal Message”. So when next someone tells you to PM him/her, it simply means sending the person a personal message. You’ll also come across another term which is “DM”. DM is an acronym for “Direct Message”.
What Does PM Mean
When someone asks you to send them a PM on Facebook, they are simply asking you to send them an exclusive message and also not comment straight on an article or on a picture. This is to make the conversation exclusive and also unidentified to the public since the conversation cannot be seen by all. You can easily send a PM to a friend on Facebook via Messenger.
Facebook users most often use the term “PM” when they are having a wall-to-wall conversation that they wish to keep private.
How to send a private message to a Facebook page
To send a private message to a Facebook page, you must understand that you can only send a private message to pages that have turned on messaging.
To send a private message to a Facebook page:
- Click on the “three line” icon at the right of Facebook
- Click on “Pages”
- Visit the page you want to message
- Underneath the page’s cover photo, click on the Message icon.
- Type in your message and click on “Send”
If you are unable to see the option to message a Page, it means the Page has turned off this feature. To contact a Page with messages turned off, you may be able to post on the page.
Chat
You can also send a personal message on the Facebook platform via the “Chat” option. All you have to do is:
- Click on the “Chat” symbol under the right side of the display
- Click on the name of the friend
- Type a message
- Once you see an eco-friendly dot close to the friend’s name it means the friend is currently online.
Security
As a Facebook user, Facebook gives you the liberty to fully customize your account’s privacy settings. Thus you may from time to time find a friend who has set up their account such that no one can send them a private message. Some users are also known to limit their availability to certain friends on the Chat application.
So when next you see a message with the phrase sending you a PM or send me a PM, you should know it is about sending a personal message which is not to be viewed by everybody.