A Taiwanese woman gave a running commentary to her friends through Facebook chat while she was suffocating herself to death.
Claire Lin, 31, committed suicide by inhaling poisonous fumes. She was reportedly upset as her boyfriend failed to return home on her 31st birthday.
Police said her final Facebook entries show her chatting with nine friends, describing her gradual asphyxiation.
A picture uploaded from her mobile phone shows a charcoal barbecue burning next to two stuffed animals. Another shows the room filled with fumes.
While her online friends pleaded not to kill herself and to put out the charcoal fire, and some reportedly tried to track her down to stop her, none of them called police.
Her final words were: “Too late. My room is filled with fumes. I just posted another picture. Even while I’m dying, I still want FB (Facebook). Must be FB poison. Haha.”
Facebook announced the launch of its stand-alone desktop chat app, Facebook Messenger, for Windows today, this time officially.
The app was leaked back in December during its test period, prompting Facebook to publish details of the app, and a link to download it, in its Help Center.
The free downloadable Facebook Messenger app offers more than chatting. It comes with three main Facebook features: Chatting, notification, and Ticker.
With a desktop chat client you will be able to chat freely whether you are browsing or using other apps because you don’t have to click away. You will also be able to keep up with the latest activities of your friends through the active stream of feeds and get instantly notified about comments, tag, etc as soon as they happen.
The app officially supports only Windows 7. Facebook is reportedly working on the Mac version, as well to bring support for other Windows OS.
The app, as of now, doesn’t support group chat or video chat, but Facebook will be bringing all those in future updates.
Facebook said that not much has changed since it first made the app available, except for some fine tuning and bug fixes.
Download Now [Facebook Messenger for Windows]
Facebook today officially released its “Facebook Messenger for Windows,” a stand-alone desktop chat client.
Apparently, an Israeli blog TechIT leaked the link to the client, before Facebook officially launched the new client.
TechCrunch reported that the app was first released for private testing in November this year, but is now available to the public. However, the app will only run on Windows 7 operating system, according to tech site, The Verge.
The client offers a number of Facebook features, including live updating Facebook ticker and notifications, as well as dockable client window.
Here is the official download link for Facebook Messenger client. You can learn more about it on the Facebook help page.
Hello readers. Just read about a cool Facebook Chat gimmick and would like to share it with you.
Check out the picture below.
It’s cool right. Amaze your friends by creating your own emotions. The best thing about it is the ease with which you can create one. Here’s how.
Just type the profile id – yours/friends name or Facebook’s user id number) between double brackets and the Facebook profile picture corresponding to the id will appear on the chat. Try these out too:
Here is what I have used for the emoticons that appear on the picture above. [[zuck]],[[facebook]],[[zynga]],[[empiresandallies]],[[texasholdem]], and of course my profile id
Have fun, and don’t forget to leave your thoughts.
Facebook announce today its video calling feature which made a lot of noise, but little do many know about a few neat improvements to that chat feature that was introduced along with video calling.
Let’s look at it quickly.
See the friends you message most
The new chat design includes a sidebar that list the people you message most, making it easier to find friends and start conversations. The sidebar adjusts with the size of your browser window and automatically appears when the window is wide enough.
Creating Group Chat Instantly
Facebook also added a multi-person chat feature, a long-awaited feature. You can now easily add them to an ongoing conversation, by simply selecting Add Friends to Chat.
Facebook Video Chat
We all know that Facebook finally introduce video chat feature. The video chat feature is still in its very basic form and allows one-to-one chat only.
The video call feature is build right into the Facebook chat. Once you get the video chat feature, you will see a video icon on the top of your chat window. Just click on it and you are ready to go.
The features will be rolled out to everyone over the next few weeks, but you can still get you hands on video chat from here.
Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled a beta version of a revamped Facebook for BlackBerry smartphone app, with a host of new features, including Facebook Chat.
Some of the new features include:
Facebook Chat: Users will now be able to see and start Chat conversation with online friends within the application.
Improve News Feed and Navigation: Users can now scroll through News Feeds without the fear of accidentally “like-ing” things. Interacting with the feeds can be done by clicking on the ‘More’ button. RIM has also added a drop-down menu for navigation at the upper left screen.
Improved Notification Bar: The notification bar sits at the upper right corner of the screen and is accessible from anywhere in the app, providing easy access to Notifications, Messages, Friends Request and Chats.
New Profile UI and Profile Information Viewing: The new Profile UI provides Wall, Info, and Photo tabs for improved browsing experience. Users can also view information like contact and basic info on Profiles and Pages.
Facebook for BlackBerry v2.0 beta is “the biggest update to the Facebook application since [they] released v1.0 more than three years ago,” according to RIM blog post.
Note: The beta version is available for download at BlackBerry Beta Zone, and is limited. Also, this initial release is available for BlackBerry 6 users only.
Facebook Chat has grown as one of the most widely-used service on Facebook since it was launched two years ago.
However, many users came across problem with the service, with chat dropping out at times, or not working at all at times.
Facebook have been working hard on these issues and reported today that its chat feature will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6).
Users will have their time to think about upgrading to IE 8, Firefox or Google Chrome. Facebook intends to pull the plug off IE 6 starting September 15.
IE 6 is 9 years old. So, it’s ability to support newer features have been a problem. More than 72 companies joined the “IE 6 no more” campaign last August.
Though many internet users still rely on IE 6, Google dropped support for IE 6 from Google Apps and many YouTube features earlier this year. And even Microsoft is asking its users to switch to newer version. Facebook might be able to give the final push with their decision to drop IE 6.
Facebook Chat is expected to get significant upgrades over the coming weeks for better chat experience. According to the company’s blog,
The biggest improvements come from changes that aren’t supported on older web browsers. After evaluating the alternatives, we’ve decided to make rapid improvements and provide the best Chat experience possible, which means we will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 browsers.
So, if you are still using IE 6, maybe it’s time to move on.
Microsoft became the first major instant messaging service to connect directly to Facebook Chat.
An update released by Microsoft to its Window Live Essentials 2011 beta on Tuesday makes it faster, more efficient and more social.
Now, users will be able to sent instant message to their Facebook friends who are logged into the social-network service.
This addition is part of an update to the test versions of the next generation of Windows Live programs. This feature will be available to users of United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and Brazil.
You can download the Windows Live Essentials beta here.
While Google had been unveiling it new product Google Buzz, AOL and Facebook have been shaking hands on the other side.
Hours after Google released Google Buzz, the newly-single AOL Inc. released a new version of its instant messaging client that integrate social media features into its AOL Instant Messanger, by integrating Facebook Chat into AIM.
This partnership will allow AIM users to chat with their Facebook friends, who will also become part of AIM’s “Buddy” lists, through their AIM accounts. New feeds and “wall” posts can be imported to AIM while status updates, videos, links and photos can be exported to Facebook.
AOL is the first major instant messaging service to integrate with Facebook Chat’s new interface. If you want to try it out, you’ll need to download the latest AIM beta for windows or Mac, or use the web version AIM Express Beta 7.2.
Once a user signs into AIM, he or she can click the ‘Facebook Connect’ button at the top of the buddy list to set up Facebook chat, AOL said. When that’s completed, Facebook friends will be added to buddy lists, and can be chatted with.
“To help you keep on top of your social network, we’ve added Lifestream to the Mail AIM plug-in. Lifestream not only allows you to get updates from all your social networks, but also to easily publish your status and broadcast it to your Buddies,” AOL wrote in its blog.
