I know, but the point i’m kind of trying to make is that they shouldn’t promise everything will be free and then go and break it. Doesn’t that defeat the object of making a promise?

Nothing is the world is really free, Beasty365.

@Beasty365 wrote:  “I thought facebook said it will always be free? doesn’t making this change go against everything they have said?”

MY RESPONSE:  You do realize we’re talking about Facebook, here, right?  I mean, you do remember all the articles and outrage about Facebook trying to sneak privacy policy changes past its users, and all that kinda’ stuff?  It was pretty big news… what… not even two years ago.  And I mean REALLY big.  It was even on the local 11 o’clock news on TV.  When generalist news programming like that bothers with a story about Facebook and its privacy policy egregiousness, then it’s pretty big.  I don’t know how you missed it.  Facebook pulls crap like this all the time.  There are no surprises, here.

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Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA
gregg at greggdeselms dot com

Hmm. I see. Well, then, it’s a good thing it’ll both cost ’em, and also that there’ll be a limit on how many they may do (because, of course, marketing campaigns with lots of money to spend would fill our inboxes, otherwise).

Truthfully, I don’t think I’ve messaged in Facebook more than five times, total, in my life; and so I’m not sure I even noticed the “other” folder. To me, Facebook’s just not a valid method of messaging… or much of anything else, for that matter. If people want my attention, they’ll email me. If they don’t, then they’ll use Facebook to reach me.

Thanks!

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Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA
gregg at greggdeselms dot com

 
Hey Gregg, thanks for stopping by, and regarding your confusion, ‘the messages sent to users who are not in the friend’s list go to the specific folder named ‘other’ which is usually neglected.
If you ask me, I see only the messages that appear in my Inbox and never pay attention to the messages in ‘Other’ folder. With this feature,  any stranger will be able to send the message directly in the Inbox, regardless of the privacy settings.

Hope my answer satisfies your query 🙂 

MY RESPONSE:  So, wait… I’m confused.  Will this new “feature” (isn’t it always interesting how big companies either take something away, or start charging for something previously free, and call it a “feature” or “service”) suddenly make it so users may no longer send messages to anyone on Facebook (regardless how their privacy settings are configured)?

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Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA
gregg at greggdeselms dot com