Facebook just made it easier to talk to strangers

If is now possible to chat with strangers you’re not friends with on Facebook. The social media network is planning on launching a new feature for Messenger called Message Requests, allowing people to receive or ignore messages from people they aren’t friends with.

At the moment, messages that are sent by people who aren’t your friends are relocated to the “Other” inbox, a separate section within the messages tab on Facebook. These messages are kind of easy to miss.

With Message Requests, which is rolling out over the next few days, Facebook will streamline how these types of messages are handled. Messages that previously would have been sent to “Other” will now appear within Messenger as a request. So, you can read the message and choose whether or not you want to respond without the other person knowing.

Basically, you can now to talk to anyone in the world; all you need is their name! David Marcus, who heads up Messenger at Facebook notes that the new feature will only apply to new messages from people you don’t know. Messages from any of your Facebook friends, friends who have your number and those who you’ve already exchanged messages with, will go straight into your normal inbox.

It has been hinted that there are much more changes to come from the messenger team in the months ahead as Facebook continues to improve ways to find people you want to communicate with.

Are you happy about the fact that Facebook just made it a lot easier to talk to people you’re not friends with? What do you think?

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