Facebook's new "Chat" Feature- Page 2

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 3:45pm

My "people I may know" today were Gavin Creel and Parks.

[James885]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:04pm

Bumping this thread because I logged onto facebook this afternoon and saw the chat feature at the bottom of the screen. Then when I logged on a couple minutes ago, it was gone. Has anyone else experienced this?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/22/08 at 12:05am

ive been enjoying it!
then again, im the creep initiating conversation!

[mauriposa]

Posted: 4/22/08 at 12:30am

This finally showed up on my fbook yesterday. Haven't used it yet. I'm not sure I like the idea of it just popping up on its own though. I like having the options to add or remove applications and boxes on my profile.

[Matters]

Posted: 4/22/08 at 12:33am

its just one more step towards facebook becoming our only tool of communication.....voice chat, video chat or both will probably come next.....in a weird way i think its cool but at the same time i'm a bit scared.

[liotte]

Posted: 4/22/08 at 1:23am

I have the chat for whatever reason. I've talked to a couple of people, but they are also people I normally chat with on AIM so it doesn't bother me.

[Anakela]

Posted: 4/22/08 at 1:52am

Although I'm sick of the "People You May Know" feature. Generally if I know them and am not friends with them, there is a reason.

Hee- Facebook keeps asking if I would like to add Lorna Bell Bundy-Jones as a friend. No Facebook, I would not like to friend Laura Bell's mom. (It really cracks me up because I don't have LBB friended either, but Facebook just keeps suggesting her mom, and not her- lol.)

And I have the chat icon, have had it turned off since I first saw it, wouldn't even know what Facebook Chat (Facechat?) looks like.

[winston89]

Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:01am

It popped up for me as well. It showed two people who I only sorta know but not enough to have any sort of IM with them.

I don't know if it is just by a particular network or whatever but these were two people that I am sorta friendly with that are on two different networks.

It is creepy though.

If I want you to IM me I will give you my AIM name.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:25am

I don't have the chat feature, but today I added the visual bookshelf, which is quite nifty.

Honestly, though, Facebook creeps me out a little with the People You May Know, and now a chat feature.

In a way, I miss the days when Facebook was the simple and clean alternative to Myspace. Those were the days.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:27pm

It showed up today for me. I logged off of it because it's just a new way for my former roommate to totally stalk me. Well, not like she doesn't do it anyway. But with AIM, I can ignore her, but I think the chat feature not being on has turned off the thing in my profile that says I am now online.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:28pm

I tried it out today, since it decided to show up. It's not too bad, but it can get annoying.

[Anakela]

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:32pm

...I think the chat feature not being on has turned off the thing in my profile that says I am now online.

You know you can turn that 'now online' icon off anyway, right? Even before the chat feature, I mean. It's in the privacy settings.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/23/08 at 4:16pm

Oh, I didn't bother to look there. In a way, I don't really care who looks at my page because I have nothing to hide. However, the way facebook is set up now, it's stalker book. I don't need to know every measely detail that everyone I know does. And I don't think they need to know either.

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 4/23/08 at 4:18pm

I don't mind it too much...but it makes it even more difficult for me to focus and actually do work. =/

[Anakela]

Posted: 4/23/08 at 4:21pm

Oh yeah Marianne, Facebook is totally Stalkerbook, such is the beauty of it. :) I have pretty much everything turned off in the privacy settings, which is why I know where that 'now online' thing is.