messageg gets delivered only if they have messenger installed on the phone. if you send the messsage through messenger app and your friend reads throguh desktop , you will see the status as sent” only. the “delivered” is applicable only for messenger users

Not showing how many hours active ago simply means your friend has disabled active status. Your friend can be online but how many hours active ago will not be shown to you.

My friend is offline (not showing how many hours active ago or what) but when I chat my friend it always gets delivered instantly. But when my friend is really offline, my chat is only sent but not delivered.

Hi @shruba Aryan – can you pls clairfy my above query. i am urgenly trying to resolve this for some important mater.

but as i mentioned i am getting delivered status consistenly ? is it a giveaway that he is seeing my message but responding ?

Thanks @Shruba Aryan. Does it mean that he is accepting the message. ??? My messages to him changes from Sent to delivered invariably. (sometimes in a day or sometimes in 2 or 3 days). Does it mean that he is accepting the message. ???
If he accepts the message, should i not see a read status also ? Because you cannot accept the message withot seeing it. Is it not ? i am not seeing the read status at all. This is breakng my head for last few months. would be good if you clarify ?

Exactly

If you send a message to a non-friend, Messenger will first of al move the message to “Message request list”.

Then the person (non-friend) is at his or her disposal to accept or ignore.

If the person accepts, your message will be moved to the normal message list. This is when your message turns from sent to delivered.

You may not know when some people are online or offline since they can turn on or turn off active status.

This way, you cannot know whether they are active or not.

Thank you!

if he is blocked , the mesage wont change to delivered state at all