why on earth are there 2 buttons that do the same thing on the same page???

see those 2 links you see on profile pages? they actually do the same thing. that's infuriating. because 1: valuable screen space is being wasted for 2 duplicate items and 2: i was really hoping that there was a non-instant messaging system for the "send message" button incase i wanted to send a message to someone i don't know