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I just went through mine and can see why: I have dozens of messages from non-friends on Facebook, and 100% of them were spam. If Facebook made this non-friend inbox more visible, they'd need to improve their spam-filtering.


I just went through mine and found quite a few relevant messages that I completely missed, which I would have liked to have received before the events themselves or before deadlines.


I contacted a journalist through her Facebook account and today just heard from her thanks to the Slate article. She was sorry she did not see my important email.


Yes, this is effectively a spam folder. I don't see how that's Facebook's fault.


Facebook placed their last message to me about changes to their own privacy policy into this folder!


It looks like it works just fine then.


If the message if from a non-spammy, active account, why bury it?

Facebook KISS: everything that isn't from friends or friends of friends is spam

Twitter KISS: nothing is spam.


They've poorly defined spam. That's their fault.




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