Facebook Chat is a wonderful little service opening you up to the incessant, sub-literate, real-time blatherings of the wide array of superficial acquaintances you’ve coalesced over the many years: ...

In the early days of the internet, online conversations were an event. The technology was novel, and it was suddenly possible to socialize with a whole bunch of friends at a distance, all at once. No ...

Samuel Conibear has been an Android obsessive since the first HTC Desire was released back in 2010. When he wasn't playing with custom ROMs, he was enjoying a successful career helping businesses grow ...

AIM is the first major instant messaging service to take advantage of Facebook Chat's new API/interface. According to a post by David Reiss on Facebook's blog, 2 billion chat messages are sent on the ...

Tired of having to keep that browser tab open to Facebook just so you can keep chatting with your friends? It only takes five Quick Steps to integrate iChat with Facebook’s web-chat client and because ...

PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Facebook said on Tuesday it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social-network site the ability to preserve social distinctions ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link By now, everyone on Facebook is pretty well-versed with emoticons. Some of them are as simple as :) while others like :putnam: are a bit more odd.

The company has launched beta versions of macOS and Windows desktop apps for the business version of Messenger, adding screen-sharing capabilities. Facebook has rolled out Windows and Mac desktop apps ...

For years, Meta (then Facebook) wanted to unify Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. It began implementing that plan by allowing Instagram users to talk to Facebook Messenger users three years ...

Meta will soon remove a feature that lets you chat with Facebook friends on Instagram. Starting mid-December, the company will disconnect the cross-platform integration, which it added in 2020. It ...

Facebook is making improvements to the way Chat connections are established and messages are sent in an effort to make the feature more "stable," said Rodrigo Schmidt, a software engineer on ...

Upset that you won’t be able to know the joys of your friends’ floating, disembodied heads on your screen, iPhone users? Fret no more, because while you won’t ...