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General Rule: Never, ever respond to an unsolicited message (Facebook, e-mail, whatever).
The best possible outcome is to confirm that they have contacted a valid address, opening the door for more requests and Spam.
That's why you don't choose the "unsubscribe" links when you get Spam.
Mark it as Spam, and move on.
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Privacy Settings > Ads, Apps and Websites > Edit Settings
How people bring your info to apps they use > Edit Settings
✓ If I'm online > Save Changes
Facebook.com - Privacy settings
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You don't have to use Google's Conversation View if you don't want. Then you can do whatever you want with individual messages.
How can I turn off Gmail's threaded conversation view?
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Whether you're new to Facebook or not is irrelevant, earlier, all Facebook messages to a person you're not connected & provided the other person has allowed for all to message, were delivered to the 'Other' folder
Off late, Facebook allows you to send a message directly to the Inbox, instead of the other folder for a fee. This isn't a ...
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The only way to lose a message is to delete it. Archiving a message will never delete it.
Assuming that a filter isn't used to automatically apply a label, the incoming email will only have the inbox label. As you work with the message you can manually add multiple labels.
The Archive command removes the inbox label from the message/conversation. If the ...
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Google+ doesn't have the conventional Private Message system like other social networks. Here, the privacy settings is what defines a public status or a private message. A PM is a message that only you and the person you're sending to can see and react to. In that sense, this is what you call a Private Message in Google+ -
As you see, this is a private ...
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I've looked into solutions to similar problems before, and I think that the problem is that the threads system is so entrenched in the software that it's difficult if not impossible to organize your mails in any other way.
A less than optimal way of dealing with it would be to forward the messages of the thread to yourself, and in doing so, change the ...
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I know that Facebook wanted to make the email communication platform very casual and not formal. This might be a reason why most people don't want to use it. I think people are forgetting the benefits (like getting a text or IM right away) of the service.
You can send emails to people and receive emails from people using your @facebook.com email address. ...
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People already have email accounts.
Plus, I think you need an email account before signing up to Facebook.
I suspect that once this rolls out properly, and people new to the internet start signing on to facebook before anything else, it'll start to take off.
Until then, it's going to be a secondary email account and people are only going to use it for ...
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You can delete the chat history in your inbox by opening the message/chat history and clicking "Actions | Delete Messages". Then at the bottom, click "Delete All". Confirm your choice, and viola, your chat history is no more.
Alternatively: https://www.facebook.com/help/new/?faq=12886
And also by that help article, it looks like the option to not save ...
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Private messaging in Google+ is handled the same as all other messages are - it is intentionally very consistent.
To send a private message, use the "Share what's new" box to write the message.
In the "Add more people" section, remove any other people or circles (including "Public") and start entering the name of the person you want to message. You should ...
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You can try going to http://m.facebook.com/ and click on "Messages".
Select a person to view the history, and click on "See Older Messages" once.
Notice that &start= part in the URL, that's the number of received and sent messages minus 7.
Notice the &page_size=7 part in the URL. Currently, Facebook does not limit this number, you can set that to ...
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I use a tool called SocialSafe that backs up all of (well, pretty much all of) my Facebook content, and that now includes messages. I can search through them all, and also jump see in the little diary part of it all of the different things that I've done on Facebook over the years.
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To download your data, log into Facebook, then click the little arrow in the top right and select "Account Settings".
In the bottom left of your "General Account Settings" find the line of text that says "Download a copy of your Facebook data" and click the link.
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In the case when you are NOT fb friends already, it will depend on the privacy setting of the profile owner. E.g. they can make their profile searchable/non-searchable, and in case of searchable, they can also set if they will allow strangers to message them. My profile is set up in this way, so if people want to be friends and they know me, they can just ...
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There is an add-on for Firefox which downloads your facebook inbox and saves it in txt files. Take a look here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/red1/
or here:
http://www.facebook.com/Red1MessageArchiver
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So, I managed to hack together a solution:
Facebook (at the time of writing) loads old messages if you scroll all the way to the top, with the newest messages being kept at the bottom.
I wrote a Greasemonkey script to force the webpage to constantly jump to the top, making Facebook load approximately 6000 messages in about 5-8 minutes. I then copied and ...
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There's only the limit of having 5,000 friends and the unknown limit of friend requests you can send. The former is there because nobody can have so many active connections (if you're a public person wanting to be in touch with your fan base, you should use a Page not a profile). The latter is there to prevent spam and it's unknown for that reason.
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As of late last year you could if you set your options on Facebook to send you an email when you get a message. But they have a history of turning this feature on and off, from what I hear, so no guarantees.
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