Facebook
is getting rid of the "Other Inbox" service, a holding place for
messages from strangers, and replacing it with a new Message Request
feature.
Widely criticized for being dysfunctional, the tool will be scrapped and instead streamlined into Messenger.
That
means that messages from non-Facebook friends will land in a Message
Request category that will appear either at the top of Messenger or in
the Messages tab on the
web, explains TechCrunch.
The
idea is that users won't miss out on any messages they may have
overlooked because they were languishing in the hidden, seldom looked-at
"Other Inbox."
Or as Ryan Tech describes it, the place where messages from strangers went to die.
Users will see the public info of a sender's profile such as their name, photo, city and job.
