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I always write useful subjects in Facebook messages and so do all of my friends. Taking them away would make my Inbox unusable because of my primary use case:
by decode 17y ago
I always write useful subjects in Facebook messages and so do all of my friends. Taking them away would make my Inbox unusable because of my primary use case: organizing groups of people for some future activity or series of activities.
Right now I have recent messages in my Facebook inbox about a fundraiser this weekend, a series of local concerts happening this fall, a class reunion next summer, and several group activities from the past few weeks. Additionally, I have ongoing one-on-one conversations with two different people.
Since some of these conversations include the same people, not having a subject to identify which thread is which would make them unusable. I'd just see a list of messages and have no way to contextualize them in conversations.
I think the real key here is that my Facebook messages are almost always a part of long-term conversations, not individual messages.
- pedalpete 17y agoIt appears you are using the subject line as more of a meta-data type tool to organize your events. Wouldn't it be better to have the ability to organize and message events rather than manage all this through the messaging services?
- decode 17y agoI'm not sure adding more structure is always useful. When I'm throwing a party for 30 people at a set date and time, I use event organization software, like Facebook events. If I want to get a feeling for my friends' thoughts on the local concert schedule this fall, I want to have a conversation with them. And the subject, as in email, is meta-data about a conversation, not (necessarily) the content of the conversation.