Is Facebook Hiding Your Messages?

Mashable.com recently reported that many Facebook users do not know about their "Other" mailbox. I didn't. 

For about a year now Facebook has been filtering out messages from events and people that you do not interact with regularly and placing them in the Other mailbox. It is intended to act as a spam filter.

You won't see the Other mailbox unless you click on the word "Messages" from your home screen, so many users, including me, had no idea that it existed. This has angered some, who say they've missed important messages.

I checked my Other box for the first time after reading the story. It was mainly spam, for which an email/app notification would have annoyed me. There were a few announcements that I would have liked to receive, but I can live with that.  Now that I know about it, I'll just make a point of checking the Other box every now and then.

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