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Facebook’s Secret Inbox Contains Unseen Messages

Facebook has another secret inbox hidden within its messenger system that could contain messages that you have never seen because you never received any notifications about them. Beta news reports: For the most part, holding a conversation on the social network is easy. If someone is a friend they’ll be able to send you a private message, and anyone who isn’t currently connected to you will be able to get in touch by sending a message request. But what you probably don’t know is Facebook has a secret inbox which may well contain messages you never even knew you’d been sent. Accessing the secret inbox is very straightforward but it will depend on what operating system you’re running and which version. For the web version of Facebook, click on the Messages button at the top of the page, and then click on Message Requests. Clicking on See filtered requests will reveal the hidden inbox and any messages that were sent to you but automatically filtered out of your main inbox by Facebook. This is essentially a spam folder, but will probably contain messages from people you know or pages you’ve liked. To get to this folder in iOS or Android, open [...]