Gary Roy of the Facebook IM, Chit Chat for Facebook, Guest Writes
Within the past five years Facebook has gradually become a household brand, and not only in the U.S, where it was first introduced out. It’s a worldwide phenomenon. Boasting close to half a billion users on the site, Facebook is the ‘American Idol’ of Internet social networking! Even Simon Cowell has a Facebook profile.
If you’ve ever used Facebook (and the chances are good, since you’re reading this) you know there’s a lot of good stuff there. Facebook is a site that was initially designed to give college students a way to network among themselves has grown to unprecedented proportions. It has become the ‘must-have’ social networking website to be on; blowing the doors off the other social networking sites that came before it, sites like Friendster and MySpace.
Facebook Pictures – A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Most likely you’ve heard the phrase that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Facebook is full of thousands (or millions) of pictures. Along with the pictures there are all sorts of ways to interact with your friends – whether you wish to comment on your friends’ pictures, poke them or play with your friends. But that’s only the beginning.
Facebook Chat – Another Way to Interact With your Friends
One of the more recent developments in the Facebook platform is the new Facebook Chat. It’s an instant messenger, similar to Yahoo Messenger or Windows Messenger, but with a distinct difference. In Yahoo Messenger, your buddy list is limited to a short list of contacts with which you share emails, etc. With Facebook Chat, however, your friends list may be much larger, since it’s so easy to accumulate friends with their system, and they’re all just a click away with the new chat function.
But there’s a problem here, at least for me. I like the idea of using the Facebook friends list for contacts; I just don’t like having the need to keep the Facebook site open and running in order to do this. And, I personally like to have more features on chat than Facebook’s bare-bones chat application provides.
Fortunately, I found a solution recently that takes all the pluses and uses them, yet does away with the negatives. It’s called Chit Chat for Facebook. I recommend you take a look at this one.
Once you’ve installed Chit Chat for Facebook (which takes just a few short minutes) you’re ready to go. No need to sign onto the Facebook site – this is a desktop application. No need to even start your browser if you don’t want to because it’s not needed either. You just click on the Chit Chat icon, login and up comes your entire Facebook friends list, separated into who’s online and who’s not. You can start chatting immediately, regardless of what else you’re involved with at the moment on your PC. The Facebook Chit Chat software runs along with all the other stuff you might be working on, alerting you when someone new shows up but not bothering your otherwise. It’s very cool.
The Chit Chat layout is easy to navigate and contains things you’ve come to expect with IM but that are lacking with Facebook Chat. Things like bold type or underlined text may not seem like much but PLEASE, I’ve got to have my smiley faces and Facebook doesn’t offer those. Chit Chat does. It also has an automatic session saving function that’s lacking with the other and visible notification when someone in your network has a change of status. Chit Chat even allows you to post to someone’s wall or make a comment without the need to sign into the site. It’s a real time saver in so many ways. Try it.
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