Comments on: A facelift for Facebook in-boxes, but is it enough?

The new look for Facebook's messaging feature will make it possible for members to flag spam and filter by unread messages, but most of other changes are cosmetic.

[L33tLuXX0rz]

What a boring update.

They need to improve he "notifications" system, instead of making them at the far better right side of the screen, as well as also not forcing us to select "See All" when ever we need to get to more than 5, why cant we just scroll within the notification box anyway, and like chat, make it stay open whenever we go to different facebook pages.

[loudbang]

At least Facebook is chugging along with frequent updates, some revolutionary, some incremental. Contrast that with MySpace. It looks always looks decrepit when I log in every few months.

[JonathonStriker]

I think Facebook might be moving a step forward to trying to replace other email. And why not, considering if you use facebook why should you have to leave to check your mail anywhere else. On the other hand, you don't get a facebook email address yet, so only friend on facebook can contact you. One can only wonder what the next step is in their revamp plans.

[chrism409]

hi how r you

[8301]

I don't really see why Facebook (or most other sites) need a private messaging function anyway, especially since most of the said websites send you an e-mail to say you have a message.

[bruscol]

Still waiting for the BIG change - they make all these games available to you - and you have to put everyone you play these games into the same pot of friends that all your real "friends" are in. It is not enough to be able to restrict what they see on the profile - we need to be able to have two classes of "friends" - one of our "real friends" - and one of just those we do games with on Facebook - THAT would be a big change.

[menty666]

I think they're trying to make changes to the notifications function. The other day I was on the See All page and I noticed little blue dots next to the new notifications. However it must have been buggy since they haven't happened since.

There are other changes going on too. I've been getting a slew of errors when I update my status or post a link from the main page. It posts ok, but the refresh return trip notification to the page is failing out. I wish they'd fix it fast.

[Harrison912]

I use FaceBook mainly for socially marketing my safety and security web site so I'm always interested in what's going on there. Thanks, Caroline, for the up-date!

[chrism409]

yes @gmail.com

[chrism409]

you guys sound like alot of fun