Does the issue occur with a different browser? Some of my friends have commented on Facebook maintenance causing their page to not load this week.

I only have the one browser. I hope it is the maintenance and mine starts working soon!

So why not try Firefox or Opera to see if that fixes the issue. Once you are satisfied it can be removed if you feel the need - or left on the computer.

You should aiways have more than one updated browser for checking problems like this

I put Google Chrome on here and my messages show up now! Still not on IE though.
Thank you.

You might go here and check out how to reinstall or repair your version of IE

I figured out the problem..I had installed IE 10.. so I uninstalled it and IE9 is back on it now and all is working fine now.

Good news then :~)