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Scores of social media users are falling for a hoax post regarding Facebook, it has emerged.

A message on the social networking giant has been widely circulated, claiming that the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company is set to charge its users.

Appearing on News Feeds across the land, the hoax urges users to copy the message on to their own walls.

This only serves in circulating the message even wider, with thousands falling for the hoax thus far.

But myth debunking websites have identified that the message is nothing but a poor attempt at scaremongering.

The hoax has reportedly been around since 2009, according to snopes.com.

This particular variation has been around since 2011, and resurfaced in 2012 and 2013.

Worryingly, some versions of the message included links that downloaded malware onto unsuspecting Facebook user's computers.

Last week, it was revealed your Facebook Messenger is set for massive changes.

From now on, you won't see a list of your most recent messages upon opening up the Messenger app on your phone.

Instead, users will land on a new "Home" page, which is set to be divided into a number of different "modules".

The first few most recent messages will still appear at the top of your screen, but below that will be a "Favorites" module, which highlights people you message most frequently.

There will also be an "Active Now" module, that lest you see that a good friend or colleague is available, and a "Birthdays" module to remind you of your friends' birthdays.

Facebook said the changes would make Messenger simpler to use, by presenting the user with more relevant information.

"The way messages appear in your messaging applications hasn't really changed since the beginning of the smartphone era. It's one long list of all the messages in chronological order," said Stan Chudnovsky, head of product for Messaging at Facebook.

"What we are doing is introducing a few modules, and those modules are sort of groupings of different messages or different people together.

"We will add more of those modules over time, and generally your inbox is going to start looking different, because we think it's time we started to innovate in how it looks and how it feels."

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