How To Find All The Private Messages Facebook Is Hiding From You

On Friday, Elizabeth Weingarten at Slate wrote a story about how Facebook failed to deliver a message from someone who had found her lost laptop.

Instead of delivering the message to her Messages inbox, Facebook hid the message in her "Other" messages inbox, which most people don't know exists.

Why did Facebook hide the message?

Facebook often groups messages from people you aren't "Friends" with into a spam-box-evoking "Other Messages" folder.

While most messages that get filtered into your Other folder are in fact spam, it's definitely worth digging through once in a while.

You never know what you'll find.

Here's how to do it.

Here's your Messages folder. Click it.

The "Other" area pops up, but you'd likely never see it because all of your messages pop up to the right. Click "Other."

As you can see, much of this is spam, including the message that begins "hiya! i'm a female!!!"

Sometimes, important messages get jumbled in the mix, especially if the message is from someone you aren't "Friends" with. I guess I missed that Frisbee game....

To mark a message as "not spam," click the message, then click "Move To Messages" inside this drop-down menu.

Now check out...

via Ninthlink

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