Facebook continues to improve ways to find the people you want to communicate with. The social network is launching a new feature for Messenger called Message Requests, that makes it easier for people to receive or ignore messages from people they aren't friends with. Users can read the message and choose whether or not they want to respond without the other person knowing.
David Marcus, VP of messaging services at Facebook, took to the social media avenue earlier this week to explain more.
"If you're friends on Facebook, if you have each other's contact info in your phone and have these synced, or if you have an existing open thread, the new messages from that sender will be routed to your inbox," he explained. "Everything else will now be a message request, minus spam attempts that we will continue to ruthlessly combat."
"While this may seem like a small change, it's actually a foundational development. Look for more in the months to come as we continue to improve ways to find the people you want to communicate with. And as always, please let us know how we can make this better for you."
Only those who log onto Facebook using a Web browser can see the "other" inbox, which is filled with spam messages, random party flyers and weird notes from complete strangers. If you only log into Facebook via an app on your smartphone and thus use its messenger, you will not have seen the "other" inbox at all.
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