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Most users didn't want another email account period. They certainly didn't want Facebook to make that decision for them. It doesn't sound like "Other" was mean
by imgabe 14y ago
Most users didn't want another email account period. They certainly didn't want Facebook to make that decision for them.
It doesn't sound like "Other" was meant to be a spam folder. If that's the case why didn't they just call it "Spam" and install a spam filter to send mail there?
- wahnfrieden 14y agoThey do have a spam filter, and it sends items to Other.
- mayanksinghal 14y agoIt is not a spam filter. I just checked my "Other" after days and found a mail that was not spam but from a old friend that I had not accepted as a friend yet. It is not 'detecting' spam but marking everything not-from-facebook as unimportant.
- swang 14y agoTo clarify, what I meant was the Others folder is just their way of preventing Facebook Users from getting spam in their "Messages" page. Since no one really checks their Others folder, you don't get any spam. The side effect though is that the Others section _may_ have important messages, but Facebook can't risk having spam invade the "Messages" page. Also if you name the folder Spam, you're acknowledging that the Facebook system can have spam, which is probably something Facebook doesn't want.
- FixThisPOS 14y agoNobody asked for or authorized "their way." Their way aucks, as does their entire communication system. Even their intra-Facebook messages are a disgraceful mess. Messages are simply tacked onto threads that are months old. Different types of communications are scattered all over the place. Friend requests, direct messages... it's pathetic. Facebook is not that complicated a concept, yet they manage to screw it up royally and never fix it.
- swang 14y agoTo clarify, what I meant was the Others folder is just their way of preventing Facebook Users from getting spam in their "Messages" page. Since no one really checks their Others folder, you don't get any spam. The side effect though is that the Others section _may_ have important messages, but Facebook can't risk having spam invade the "Messages" page. Also if you name the folder Spam, you're acknowledging that the Facebook system can have spam, which is probably something Facebook doesn't want.