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Facebook is hiding messages from you in a secret inbox - here's how to find it

Sam SheadApr 7, 2016, 15:28 IST

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Facebook Messenger has a secret folder for storing messages that you probably didn't know existed.

When you receive a message from someone on Facebook that isn't your friend, Facebook alerts you to let you know. However, Facebook doesn't do this for every message you receive from a non-Facebook friend.

If Facebook thinks the message is spam, then it will tuck it away into a hidden vault.

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Several Business Insider journalists found the vault and all of us had messages in there that we didn't know we'd ever received.

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Facebook is hiding messages from you in a secret inbox - here's how to find it

Here's how to find the secret vault: