Facebook Chat Open to All Within Weeks
Posted by Nick O'Neill on April 22nd, 2008 9:27 AMOver the weekend chat finally turned on for me. I’ve been playing around with it some and have found it to be a useful tool so far. I reached out to Facebook to find out how many networks now have access and while they could comment on existing networks they said that Facebook will be open for all within a few weeks. While I don’t have an exact date, I know it will be soon.
Many have complained that they aren’t able to access chat yet. I provided a quick hack the other day to get a sneak peak but unfortunately it wasn’t a good solution if you wanted to use the tool on a regular basis. After using chat for a while, the one thing that I’ve found a little challenging is the lack of notifications of new messages.
While a the title of the page changes via a tab in my browser, there is no sound made to alert me to the new message. By the time I get to messages, the person who contacted me is typically gone. Then again, I could theoretically use chat in a separate window. For now, I’m going to stick with my current chat solutions. There is enough noise in my life for one person to deal with. Have you been provided access to chat yet? What network are you in?
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 am
They’ve turned Facebook chat into a demanded entity, rather than having a backlash from the users. They have learned from News Feed and Beacon, though they seem to be very cautious with the roll-out.
Or it could just be scalability, I am just speculating.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:58 am
when there will be jabber support?
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Boston appears to have gotten it yesterday. It’s nice, but I have my FB window minimized most of the time, so I’m seriously hitting the problem of people trying to chat and not being able to get my attention.
(And I agree that Jabber support would be faboo…)
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:49 am
I too have now got it. I’m in the UK and not in a “network”.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:04 am
I got it just now. Ottawa, Canada. I have friends in numerous other cities around Canada and NA who seem to have it too.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:32 am
Greece network got it today!
A strange problem…i use IE 7 with Windows Vista and it says that I am using IE6 :-O and I can’t use it properly… Firefox is ok… anyone knows something about that>?
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:55 am
Facebook Chat activated for my network Inland Empire, CA and also my friends in Lebanon and other parts of the world! I think we’re getting there!
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:58 am
Facebook Chat is now up in Australia. =)
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
It’s workin now in the Luxembourg (Europe) network!
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
The Facebook Chat app is not working in Luxembourg, Europe!
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 am
Facebook chat is up and running for me and all my friends as of this morning too.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:30 am
Yeah, I think it’s been extanded to most of Facebook users. Alle Quebec province has it this morning.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:11 am
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April 23rd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
its now up in Iran’s Network as well! haha