In plain English
It controls who can contact a person through messages. The choice limits message sending to selected people or accounts as part of privacy preferences.
In context
Here, it names the message privacy setting for choosing which people or accounts may send messages to the user.
- Situation
- Reporting content, appealing decisions, reading restrictions, and using safety controls
- What it communicates
- setting label for choosing which people can send messages.
Meaning limits
By itself, this term does not say who is currently selected or whether any particular message will be received.
Examples
“She changed Allow messages from to people she follows after repeated notes from unfamiliar accounts.”
“On his account, Allow messages from is set to contacts only.”