This is just a quick tip but I share because everyone I’ve talked about it to has responded with…
“OOOOOOOHHHHHH I didn’t know I had that folder!”
or
“Oh my gosh, I have 15 messages that I never saw!”
Did you know that Facebook has an “other” folder where messages go to die? In theory, it’s a spam-blocker (and now that Facebook may charge you to send messages to people, it’s also a money-maker for the company, but I digress since I’ve already said that I would pay for Facebook myself). But it can also send messages that you want to see into the ether.
(For example, I’m in a local mom group on Facebook where people can sell/trade baby items. Since many of us are not friends on Facebook, our messages to each other usually end up in “other.”)
1) Go to your Facebook messages page.
2) At the top/left, you’ll see the word Inbox. Just to the right, you’ll see the word Other. Click on it.
TA DA! From there, you have a few new options. You can send an “other” message to your main inbox or you change your settings to be a little less aggressive with the filtering.
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Thank you! I had no idea and, sure enough, had a message in there that someone told me they sent me last year!
HA! I’ll join the common answer “I had no idea that was there. I had 49 messages!”
Thank you so much for this post! Holy crap…. my long lost softball coach messaged me months ago… I missed it! Thanks to you I will respond!!! That is so annoying… there are a ton of non spammy emails…
Just found 2 new messages from friends in there!! THank you!!
I did know about that folder but only just recently. Is Facebook really goi g to charge to send messages? I think that is so stupid. I’m starting to really dislike Facebook.
Thanks for this useful tidbit!
just checked this and realized I won a prize in May of 2012 that had to go to someone else because FB put it in other folder that I had no idea was there!! thanks for tip!
As you like you, I had no idea a folder existed there. I did find some messages hiding around.
Oh my gosh – thank you! I had 59 messages there!
This just blew my mind. Thanks a lot, Facebook. Geez. I had a ton in there!