Facebook Testing Feature to Reduce Email Notifications

Facebook has begun testing a new feature that lets active users group their email notifications into summary emails.

“We’re testing a feature for people who are very active on Facebook and receive lots of email notifications from us,” the company said in a post on its wall. “We’ll provide a new summary email and turn off most individual email notifications. If you want to turn them back on, there’s a control in your account settings.”

The feature, available to a small group of users in their account settings, is ideal for users that receive dozens of daily friend requests or are frequent participants in Facebook conversations. A daily summary is something more users will be able to handle.

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