In an attempt to evolve in an ever-changing market, Facebook will test a method of revamping the Messages feature on its website by charging users a small fee for sending messages to someone they are not Facebook "friends" with.

Beginning Thursday, the social networking staple will conduct a "small experiment" to monitor the "usefulness of economic signals" and evaluate the messages sent to recipients from unknown senders, who will be charged $1 for relaying a message to a non-friend.

"This test will give a small number of people the option to pay to have a message routed to the Inbox rather than the other folder of a recipient that they are not connected with," Facebook stated in a posted blog.

Facebook added that "several commentators and researchers" feel that the small fee will stop unwanted messages and in turn, promote more relevant ones. Hence, making several spammers think twice before paying to send mass emails.

A Facebook spokesperson said that the paid-message feature will be launched to only a fraction of users around the United States.

Nonetheless, the test feature, similar to the approach of LinkedIn, could become another profitable form of capital for the household online company, which already dominates the social networking platform hand over fist.

Facebook is no stranger to discrepancies amid its email setup, as it was originally meant to be somewhat of a spam filter. In the past, users complained that online mail wasn't going to the right folders or even reaching them at all.

Although most FB users don't use the respective correspondence perk, any person is able to transmit someone a message to the site even if they aren't signed up for it.

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