<p>Sometimes you need to message a non-friend, and today Facebook starts testing if it can make a little money and cut spam by asking you to pay to ensure the recipient sees that message. Facebook's also changing everyone's privacy settings into dynamic filters that let "relevant" messages through. These moves address Facebook's old settings that caused important messages to sometimes go unseen.</p><p>Previously, Facebook's messaging privacy settings were cut and dry. You set your inbox to allow messages from everyone, friends of friends, or friends only. Any sender that didn't qualify had their messages dumped in the "Other Inbox", a little known sub-tab of the Inbox that most people rarely checked if ever. I had a friend who actually got a Facebook Message from a long-lost brother from the other side of the world but didn't see it for six months because he wasn't a friend of a friend.</p><p>Facebook's trying to rectify this situation, and also make room for the new revenue stream it's testing by replacing these hard settings with more flexible filters. Facebook is legally allowed to make this change to privacy settings because of the new language about messaging it put into its terms of service this month.</p><p>If you were set to accept messages from friends of friends or everyone, you'll now have the "Basic Filtering" which means you'll mostly see messages from friends and people you may know in you main Inbox. If you had restricted your Inbox to friends only, you'll be switched onto the "Strict Filtering" which means you'll mostly see messages from friends.</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/20/facebook-tries-letting-you-pay-to-guarantee-message-delivery-changes-messaging-privacy-settings/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-testing-for-pay-messaging/">Facebook is testing a pay-for messaging service, effectively putting a price ...</a> (Digital Trends)</p><p><a href="http://technabob.com/blog/2012/12/22/facebook-paid-messaging/">Facebook Testing Paid Messaging</a> (Technabob (blog))</p><p><a href="http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/facebook-tests-new-paid-messaging">Facebook tests new paid messaging</a> (Marketplace.org)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dQmHw6hg4ShHgIMzGFAKyw2DV-toM&ned=us">694 additional articles.</a></p>