Facebook tests $1 fee to message strangers
Facebook on Thursday announced changes to its messaging service, including a filtering system to weed out unwanted messages and a $1 fee that it will charge U.S. users to reach those not on their list of friends.
The social network's messaging system includes an Inbox and Other folder. The Inbox stores messages from friends and users who Facebook's algorithms show are somehow connected. The Other folder stores messages from people not on a user's friends list.
But now, Facebook is adding a 'basic' and 'strict' filtering system to manage all those messages.
"Facebook Messages is designed to get the most relevant messages into your Inbox and put less relevant messages into your Other folder," a post on Facebook's Newsroom blog shows. "We rely on signals about the message to achieve this goal."
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