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It’s official. This is some really big news and it is much anticipated news as well. Facebook is preparing to launch search for the inbox in the coming month. According to Prashant Malik:
This month, we’re rolling out Inbox search, a tool which allows you to search through all of your messages either by name of the person who sent it, or by a keyword that shows up in the text. Ever had a friend send you a Facebook message suggesting a good restaurant? Or maybe you were sent an address or phone number of an old friend. Then time passes and your Inbox fills up, and by the time you’re ready to go out to eat with your old friend you have to page through hundreds of Facebook messages to find the one you need. Inbox Search aims to fix this problem.
Search will be available this week to a few select networks (mostly Ivy leagues if they roll it out the same as before). There are no screen shots of what the search will look like but this will be a highly welcomed feature by most users. I for one am extremely thankful that this feature is finally being rolled out. I’m curious as to what types of sorting features Facebook will add. No matter what the sorting features are, I am extremely excited to see this finally rolled out!
Update
According to other reports there are no sorting features currently! This is some bad news but at least the search is being added. I hope they add search soon after!
Whoa! Huge news!! Soon they’ll add a ‘forwarding’ feature!! Cutting edge technology, 2008 BC!
Facebook is down right now…
What ELSE am I supposed to do at 1:30 in the morning? Sleep?!? Pshhh.
Perhaps they’re implementing this right now, or laying the groundwork.
Facebook is back up, with inbox search!
I’ve had this live on my FB for at least a week now — let me know if you want screen shots. You can search by keyword or friend name. Pretty straight-forward.
You are all welcome!!! I will take full credit for this idea. I e-mailed them on april 21 with the following:
May I make a suggestion: Add the ability to search for private messages sent to or received from a particular person. Say I sent a message to my friend Alyssa regarding a project a few months ago. Now that the end of the semester is here I need to find that message since it had some important information in it. Right now I have to go page by page until I hopefully stumble upon it. If I could click her name or search by keywords or even make folders for messages it would be a LOT easier.
Anyway, hope you take my idea and think about it, it is something I really wish would happen..
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Anyway, while I am sure someone had written them prior to me, I will just assume credit until someone else comes forwards
anyway, great news!
You are all welcome!!! I will take full credit for this idea. I e-mailed them on april 21 with the following:
May I make a suggestion: Add the ability to search for private messages sent to or received from a particular person. Say I sent a message to my friend Alyssa regarding a project a few months ago. Now that the end of the semester is here I need to find that message since it had some important information in it. Right now I have to go page by page until I hopefully stumble upon it. If I could click her name or search by keywords or even make folders for messages it would be a LOT easier.
Anyway, hope you take my idea and think about it, it is something I really wish would happen..
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Anyway, while I am sure someone had written them prior to me, I will just assume credit until someone else comes forwards
anyway, great news!
It is great… but I was just wondering, I have been having some problems with Facebook… It says that my Facebook inbox will be blocked… why? what does that mean?