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- Was launched on April 6, 2008
- One-to-one chat only
- No 3rd party integration at launch
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Facebook Chat is an instant messaging service offered by social network Facebook. It does not use an application, but is web-based and appears at the bottom of every Facebook page, informing users which of their friends are online and available to chat. Facebook Chat was officially released on April 6, 2008, but was not available to all users at the time of launch. Facebook announced that they would roll out the product slowly, and users can expect the chat bar to appear on their profiles "very soon."
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Facebook Chat Notifications
Although the primary use for Facebook Chat is to chat with friends who are on the site, it also serves to instantly deliver notifications of any site activity. When a friend posts a comment on a user's wall, for example, instead of having to reload the page to see the notification of the posting, an icon appears in the Facebook Chat bar at the bottom of the screen, indicating that the user has an unread notification or several unread notifications. It is a small feature, but it eliminates the need to refresh the page. This ties in well to the chat application's primary fuction, as users need only log into Facebook to stay on top of site activity relating to them. -
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Facebook Chat Questions
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How do you send a message in facebook chat application using a 8gig ipod touch? 1 AnswerPerhaps she can try using the Official FaceBook Application available for free in the App Store. read more -
Can you deactivate the Facebook chat feature? 3 AnswersYes you can, You can set an option so that you appear offline to all of your friends when you on Facebook which is the same functionality you mention on Myspace... read more -
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Facebook Chat Blogs and Commentaries
- TechCrunch: Facebook Working On Jabber/XMPP Support For Chat (May 13, 2008)
- Webware: Hands-on: Facebook Chat (April 7, 2008)
- TechCrunch: Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming (March 18, 2008)
- ZDNet.com (Between the Lines): Facebook privacy controls, IM on the way (March 18, 2008)
- Mashable: Facebook Updates Privacy and Adds Chat (March 18, 2008)
- ReadWriteWeb: Facebook Improving Privacy Controls, Creating Chat App (March 18, 2008)
- Blog.Wired: Facebook Adds Chat Feature, Better Privacy Controls (March 18, 2008)
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Facebook Chatting through Apps
While Facebook has chat available to its users, it performs a basic, instant-messaging like chat service. If you want different kinds of chat features, your options come from Facebook applications. A few such applications include Meebo's Chat app, and Chat Here, and Stranger Chat.
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"Facebook always wanna change somethin'... They should change that sound." Keisha in reference to the FB Chat sound.
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I love when my brother who lives about 8 states over calls me a fag on facebook chat
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facebook chat thing is being gay
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Who wants to call me and chat me up while I drive? My digits are on my facebook. Calls me!
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@armx yo se la hago llegar conversemoslo por chat facebook
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