Facebook Messenger is going to troll you less often when you add new friends

Facebook power users, hands up: You just added a new friend and the Messenger icon in the top-right corner immediately lit up with a notification. 

"You are now connected on Messenger." Cue feelings of annoyance and defeat.

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Facebook feels your pain and it's going to fix this. Not completely, mind you, but the company presumably hopes to make a small enough impression moving forward that people won't feel compelled to drag the annoying feature again.

"We are working to make these notifications even more useful by employing machine learning to send fewer of them over time to people who enjoy getting them less," a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.  Read more...

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from Mashable https://mashable.com/2018/06/09/facebook-messenger-notifications/
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