Facebook tests $1 fee for stranger to message your inbox

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A pair of updates to Facebook's messaging feature is sure to ignite controversy over the holidays. While the improved filtering Facebook has implemented will be welcomed, an experiment allowing strangers to pay $1 to give their message high priority will likely cause serious unrest.

The updates are part of continuing efforts to expand and monetize Facebook messaging, which means change from a just being a way for friends on the social network to chat to a more universal and easy communication platform. To that end, Facebook has to allow and control for the possibility of strangers contacting users.

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In Inbox Hell? Time to Admit You're an Email Sinner - How to Fix it

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Email may be a fabulously convenient tool that's revolutionized how entrepreneurs run their businesses, but let's be honest, these days it's also a source of torment. The unceasing flood into your inbox robs you of concentration, loads you down with unread email guilt and sucks away your personal time. So what's to be done if despite your best intentions you've landed in email hell?

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Get Your Inbox to Zero: 5 Email Tricks

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Oh, the moans you hear from people about their email accounts. "I have 50 gajillion messages in my inbox ... and that's just from today!" But that doesn't compare with the moans I illicit from colleagues when I tell them that my inbox is empty.

"I could never do that," someone—maybe you—will inevitably complain. I understand, as I used to say the same thing. However, I was wrong, and so are you. The Zen part? This is something that you shouldn't bother to try to "understand." Just do it and learn that the most useful email is that which isn't there.

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End email: Firms find a cure for inbox hell

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When Thierry Breton, chief executive of Atos, said the IT services company would ban use of internal email by 2014, it caused a sensation across the media, with commentators describing the idea as either “brave,” “stupid” or doomed to failure.

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