Facebook announced today that the social network is testing the option to pay for delivering messages that would otherwise appear in the “Other” folder (and go unnoticed) to the general Inbox with a limited number of users.
The Other folder exists to filter out messages from unknown senders that might be spam. For the most part Facebook does a pretty good job of weeding out junk messages. The criteria for filtering spam from important messages are both determined using social and algorithmic signals, says Facebook. Messages from friends, people you might know, or contacts separated by a mutual friend are the types of signals that would trigger messages to appear in your general inbox.
On some occasions, however, important messages can slip through to the Other inbox. Someone without any discernible relationship who is reaching out would be directed here — long lost friends or job recruiters, perhaps. These types of messages will go unnoticed since Facebook isn’t able to figure out the relevance of these types of relationships and there’s no alert or notification for Other inbox mail. To Facebook’s credit, the network has just rolled out an alert that notifies you about looking into how your Messages inbox works and who you see notes from. You can see what this looks like below, and it should start popping up when you access Messages.
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