Facebook Messenger will stop with the annoying "New friend" notifications... maybe

Here's something annoying: every time you accept a Facebook friend request (or get accepted by a friend), the Facebook Messenger will pop up a notification that you are now also connected on Messenger. So you need to leave the Facebook app, go to Messenger and open that auto-generated conversation in order to clear it.

Yeah, you've probably gone through that ritual a ton of times already. Guess what — Facebook has just admitted that it's a tad annoying.

But don't expect the social media to just peddle back and remove the notifications. No, that'd be too easy. Instead, Facebook will ...