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This is access to your inbox for advertisers. For those who don't use Facebook, if you receive a message from someone who is not your "friend", it goes into a
by casca 14y ago
This is access to your inbox for advertisers.
For those who don't use Facebook, if you receive a message from someone who is not your "friend", it goes into a different folder called "Other". Many people don't know about this and there's no notification in the UI for received messages. Visually, it's treated in a similar way to your spam folder but with less visibility.
I always assumed that the only reason for separating your Other folder so visually was to charge people to get out of it. I guess Facebook was waiting for more people to use their messaging platform as a replacement for email before pulling the trigger.
- tgrass 14y agoAt a $1 per email, this may be for sales, but it won;t be for generic spam.
- rory096 14y agoWhich may be a good thing. What if Facebook harvests enough data that the "spam" we get is low in quantity and with very high probability it's something we actually want, as that price requires? If ultra-targeted advertising becomes viable as a model for Facebook, it'd be much less of a nuisance than just shoving ads in users' faces all the time. Value-added, even- it's reliably connecting users with markets they'd voluntarily participate in.