A secret Facebook folder marked as 'other' could contain important messages users have never seen.
This inbox feature, which has the ability to harbour messages that you are not aware of, is part of a measure to protect users against spam, according to the social network.But as there are no push notifications to alert any of Facebook's 1.1 billion users that messages have been relegated to their 'other' folder, plenty of people will have old messages hidden in it.
In a blog post for The New York Times, tech expert David Pogue said that he had discovered a secret folder full of Facebook messages that he had never seen.They included important messages and redundant invitations from friends going back years.
He said that Facebook users can check their 'other' folder to discover if they have any old mail, by clicking on 'messages'.Next to 'inbox' in bold type, there is the word 'other' in light grey, which you have possibly overlooked.Mr Pogue said that it is this folder that probably contains a hidden stash of messages.
The less than obvious folder is apparently part of Facebook's $1 message programme.The social network began charging users $1 to send a message to an individual who is not their friend, this year.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please comments are invited