Facebook has become part of many of our daily lives, and in spite of the constant random updates and annoying changes, we are still sometimes lulled into trusting it. Such was the case for the honest man who found one of the Slate writers MacBook Air in a New York Taxi Cab. The finder’s well meaning messages didn’t get to the recipient because of the Other tab, and this journalist nearly lost her high priced laptop forever.
Back in 2009 Facebook decided to route all messages that didn’t originate with your friends or friends of your friends into a separate mailbox named Other. This basically turns it into a spam folder, and when I looked in mine that’s pretty much what was in there, but you should probably check yours. You never know, there might be a job offer or a note from a secret admirer hiding in there.