{"id":51237,"date":"2020-02-24T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/?p=7637\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:10:25","slug":"answer-instagram-comments-messages-facebook","status":"publish","type":"knowledge_base","link":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/knowledge_base\/answer-instagram-comments-messages-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I reply to Instagram comments and direct messages from Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Facebook bought Instagram in 2012, the two platforms have started to become more and more integrated. Recently, Facebook started to allow users to answer Instagram comments and direct messages from Facebook. Here&#8217;s how you can reply to users across platforms.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, you need to start from connecting your Facebook Page and Instagram account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How to connect your Facebook Page with an Instagram account?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on Settings in the top-right corner of your Facebook Page.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on Instagram in the column on the left.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on Connect Account.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter your username and password to log in.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refresh the page and go to your Facebook Inbox.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once your Facebook Page and Instagram account are connected, you should be able to view and moderate comments from Instagram in the Facebook Inbox. Just click on Comments &amp; More and then choose Instagram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Messages and comments will appear in one column, the unread ones will be in bold. You can manually add a tag to each comment and mark it as spam (\u2757 sign), unread (\u2709\ufe0f sign), or follow-up (\u2b50 sign). When you decide that the conversation is resolved, mark it as done. You can filter comments by these tags by clicking on the Main button.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7639\" style=\"width: 905px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7639\" class=\"wp-image-7639 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/facebook-messenger-organize-0-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"895\" height=\"60\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Inbox labels for Instagram comments and messages<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moderating user conversations from two platforms in one place is a very comfortable solution for social media managers. You don\u2019t need to log into two separate platforms and jump between them refreshing pages all the time to see new comments. Moreover, <strong>you can always access your Facebook inbox on the go<\/strong> and stay informed about what\u2019s going on on your Page and Instagram account by installing Facebook\u2019s Pages Manager app.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read more about similar topics here:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/knowledge-base\/organize-my-facebook-inbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">How can I organize my Facebook inbox better?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/knowledge-base\/community-management\/change-page-to-moderate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">How can I easily switch between the Pages I moderate on Facebook?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/knowledge-base\/community-management\/benefits-social-media-moderation-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">What are the benefits of using a social media moderation tool to answer comments and messages on Facebook?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":51685,"template":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How can I reply to Instagram comments and messages from Facebook?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Facebook now allows users to answer Instagram comments and messages from their Facebook inbox. 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