Once a message from a non-friend enters Message Requests, you’re able to see a short bio of the person.
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Phone numbers are so 2012; Facebook now wants everyone to chat via text. Facebook has also been useful in reconnecting long-lost family members with one another, and Message Requests can more easily facilitate communication between them.
Facebook’s “Other Inbox” is where users get to receive messages from people other than their friends.
Have you also at a few point felt why Facebook expects its users to go all the way to the “Other” inbox to read texts from people they do not know? The users then will have the option to accept or ignore the request, much like in the “Add Friend” feature.
Facebook is getting rid of the “Other” tab in your messages, which is only available on the web version.
Message Requests replaces the “Other Folder” of the Facebook inbox where messages sent by strangers were kept (and usually remained undiscovered). If they decide to reply to that message, their message will be moved from the Message Requests folder into their regular inbox, according to PC World.
New Facebook Search created to compete against Google’s core business and challenge Twitter’s news product. Earlier this month, the company updated its Messenger app for iOS with support for the Apple Watch. The new system will appear right at the top of your Messenger app. The message sent by the Facebook friends and phone contacts, if their mobile is synced with their phones, will be received directly in their inbox but spam messages will be now received as “Message Request“.
‘While this may seem like a small change, it’s actually a foundational development, ‘ continued Mr Marcus. I mean, maybe you’re not even really friends IRL, after all.
Get ready for a lot more of this…
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Of course, nobody wants spam messages, so Facebook says it will continue weeding those out. Once a request is ignored, users won’t be notified by that same person. Thus, a swath of stories of missed reconnections with long lost relatives, missed opportunities to retrieve one’s wallet after it was lost and many others.
