Facebook Secret Messages: How To Check Your Other Inbox

In your Facebook inbox, your chat threads consist of friends you have accepted. From time to time, you will receive messages from people you are not friends with and even from complete strangers. The social media platform has a message request feature that notifies you when someone who is not in your friends list sends you a message. However, we discovered that these secret messages will only notify you if Facebook thinks that you might know the person while the rest will be labeled as spam.

Recently, the social network enabled a notification for message requests from people who are not in your friends list. However, you could still be missing some secret messages, which were believed to be spam, reports. In order to locate the hidden messages in your Messenger app, all you need to do is 

follow the steps below:

For iPhone

• Open the app, 
• Then tap on Settings on the lower right, 
• Then select People,
• Then Message Requests
• Select See Filtered Requests

For Android

• Open the app,
• And at the top
• Then select People,
• Then Message Requests
• Select See Filtered Requests

Finally, There you have it! An entirely new inbox which you have probably missed since you began using Facebook.

So, that's your other Inbox. It's like an alternate chat universe filled with people who you must have known from another dimension *Gasp!* Or yeah, maybe they are just complete strangers who are completely bored, which may seem creepy or even worse, an ex whom you have blocked a long time ago who suddenly haunts you with memories of your past that you just want to throw in the trash bin.

And no, seeing a message from them doesn't mean it is a sign that you should catch up again. It's just a test. If you passed, that means you are completely happy with your life right now. So congrats! For unearthing that hidden inbox and being happy. So just go on with your life, and discover more… “secrets.”