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Wed 12 Jun, 2013 08:31 am
I wanted to send a message to someone via facebook. She has a strange setting: she receives mail only from friends, but I can’t push a let’s become friends button – sorry, I don’t know the English word for this act (and I can’t change the set language on Facebook). So I can’t ask her for this because of her settings again. Well, I was still able to send her my message, but it may be that she didn’t met it. It was displayed that "Your message will go to …'s Other folder because you aren't connected to her on Facebook.” Once I too got a message which went into another folder, I found it accidentally much later because that little red flag wasn’t there when it came. Maybe the same thing happened with the message I sent the other day. But something else was also written. After the above there is a blue lettered "more.” I click on it, and as the contuniation of the above, it’s written: "Send this message directly to her Inbox for 61 Ft HUF” I’m a Hungarian and Ft (HUF) is our money. This sum is about a half bar of chocolate. I wouldn’t envy her (??, I think rather the system) this sum. But where and how should I pay this sum? Some say it’s a scam. But if it’s a scam then what does it mean? I would report it to Facebook, but I'm not aware of any way of informing them. And if the text about paying money is written by frauds who hacked the Facebook, then the "Your message will go to …'s Other folder…” might as well be written by them. Because they seem to be two sentences of the same text. Well, if this whole is written by frauds, then maybe no word is true, that is, it may be that my message doesn't go anywhere, not into the inbox, nor into the other folder. Or it may also be that my message goes to the inbox, and there is no problem. So what is this?
@KaJe,
Facebook does not charge for sending friend requests or messages.
As to your inability to send a message or click a friend request button, the person may have their privacy settings intentionally set that way. Many do, especially if they are children.
@KaJe,
You also might want to confirm that the page you are accessing is a legitimate Facebook page. Don't click a link to go to Facebook, manually type in the URL: facebook.com.
@Butrflynet,
Yes, but messages to
non-friends are subject to charges, or you can have the message delivered, for free, to what is essentially an FB spam folder.
Thanks for the answers of both of you, but I can’t like either of them, they being the opposite of each other, and I don’t know which is true. “Facebook does not charge for messages” /Butfrlynet/, and “messages to non-friends are subject to charges” /Jespah/. The only thing I know is that she’s not a child. And I know her. Once we knew each other, I found her, so I wanted to write to her. I hope you agree at least in the point that charging money, even if it exists, isn’t her intention. Her intention is not dissuading only those who want to send messages for free, but she doesn’t want to get any message. Is it so?
@KaJe,
Your friend is not doing the charging; it's Facebook. And if you have friended her on Facebook, you should not be seeing this - if you are then yeah, Butrflynet is correct and it's possibly a sign of malware.
But if you are not connected as friends, you will get this message.
Tell you what - try it with someone else you don't know on Facebook, someone you are not connected to as a friend, and see what happens.
@jespah,
Just tried it.
No request to make any payment.
I regularly send messages to people I've met in dance workshops to tell them where we met and that I will be sending a friend request.
FB has never requested $
@ehBeth,
Huh. Perhaps I've got malware. Thanks for checking.
@jespah,
Thank goodness I'd just joined a new dance group earlier today ... I expect I'll have a new friend shortly
I won't mention it was for an experiment
@jespah,
I wonder if I'm not getting the message as I have a connection (in the same group)?
@jespah,
Normally I can send messages to anybody. No matter he/she is facebook-friend or not, but not to her. No, she never was facebook-friend but friend in real life, that is how I meant. However, now I can't reach her in real life, that is why it would have been good to write her in Facebook.
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