Facebook is updating its messaging service with new filters and paid messages.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
The test, which will only be available to a “small number of people” in the United States, is Facebook’s response to a common user complaint: that important messages are getting lost in the social network’s spam filter. Currently, Facebook delivers messages it thinks are relevant to users’ inbox — messages from friends, or friends of friends — but other messages that Facebook believes are spam get sent to a little-noticed “other” folder.
That “other” folder is littered with mostly unwanted messages from people not connected with the user. But on occasion, those out-of-network messages may be important.
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