Facebook Adds Filtering To Messages, Tests Paid Service

Facebook released an update to its messaging system Thursday, adding a filtering system and introducing a paid service for U.S. users who want to get in touch with someone they are not friends with. The filtering system makes it so only messages from friends show up in the inbox, while all others are sent to the "other" folder.

Facebook released an update to its messaging system Thursday, adding a filtering system and introducing a paid service for U.S. users who want to get in touch with someone they are not friends with. The filtering system makes it so only messages from friends show up in the inbox, while all others are sent to the “other” folder.

As users complained to Facebook that the, “Who can send me Facebook messages?” setting was inefficient, the site found a way to address these concerns.

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