<p>sernitysmiles, there are all kinds of reasons to message people who are not your FB friends. It’s just like emailing people. When people don’t have profile photos of themselves, you can message them to see if they are the person you are looking for especially if they have a common name.</p>
<p>I don’t believe FB is trying to protect us from spammers. FB does their own spamming when they put in “suggestions” to your newsfeed.</p>
<p>The part that is really annoying is that any message that is put in your other folder you will not be notified about only those in the regular message folder. </p>
<p>So how often are you supposed to check a folder that doesn’t let you know something is there?</p>