What is Facebook Chat?

July 11, 2009

Instant Messaging or in other words IM has been there on the Internet for many years and we are familiar with many chat programs available as standalone applications and web applets. Embedding chat functionality in to a web page is no alien to the world of Internet. When Facebook introduced chat feature for the first time, it received a massive response from the Facebook users as Facebook introduced the chat function as a simple, yet effective service.

When you are online in Facebook, you will notice that chat application is running on the Facebook taskbar at the right bottom of the page. Whenever your friends come to Facebook and available for chat, the number which indicates the number of online friends increases. Then you can simply open the chat application and start chatting with your friends.

Facebook chat works similar to any other chat program with more or less the same features such as emoticons etc. Although many features of Facebook chat functions are similar to other chat programs, there are significant differences in the implementation of the program. As an example, while many other chat accounts can be integrated in to a desktop chat client such as Pidgin, Facebook does not allow to access Facebook chat through a third party chat client.

You can control all related parameters for Facebook chat by simply clicking ‘Settings’ in the main chat window. If frequent messages from your friends grab a lot of attention from you, you can go offline, so they cannot see you or message you while you are busy.

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Amin July 26, 2009 at 4:53 pm

Hi

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syazwaniii July 31, 2009 at 7:34 am

haiiiiiiii……
asal maner?

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nina August 3, 2009 at 9:00 am

hi

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chevonne campbell August 6, 2009 at 6:31 pm

may i ask about how i do about facebook chat

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PATRICK KIPNG~ENO August 13, 2009 at 3:00 am

Hello!I would like to be informed on how to do or rather on how to commence chat with my allies,please & Thank you.

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ladyhawk August 15, 2009 at 7:25 am

you do o.k.

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ladyhawk August 15, 2009 at 7:27 am

I dont know how to socialise on facebook

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Don Berghuis August 15, 2009 at 5:00 pm

I don’t have an answer to “facebook chat” I am here to find out more about it

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rabu November 12, 2009 at 5:14 am

hiiiiiiii hwz yew everyone im fine hehe and we miss u ummmmaaaah

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Rasheeda Pavlicek June 12, 2010 at 7:37 pm

Namaste, I will have to look into this deeper, thank you

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