Facebook chat

[Richie]

Does anyone know why people are complaining about it? it works perfectly fine for me, i actually love it!

[Spuds]

Mine doesn't show everyone whose online, piece of junk.

[xxMATTGxx]

I just don't like it at all, I've never used it since I've been on facebook.

[Richie]

Mine doesn't show everyone whose online, piece of junk.

Yeah that's what loads of my friends are saying but it works fine for me hmm, maybe it'll function better if you install the new video calling chat plug-in?


I just don't like it at all, I've never used it since I've been on facebook.

Ah I use it now and then, it would be worse if it was advanced, what would be the point? we already have msn

[Spuds]

Won't work on Safari and I don't wish to use I.E, Firefox or Chrome.

[FunXiaomilitary]

It works good for me I quite like it :) ok wif anything hahas :)

[bones]

Maybe because the annoying piece of **** just pops up on my screen and takes up a quarter of the page and even when I hide it, if I open up facebook again the trash just shows back again. I have to sign off chat to get it to go away >;[

[Skittle]

They keep on updating it and it's getting annoying like habbo.

[Defocus]

People don't like change, I'm one of those people.

[wixard]

mine works fine too
my friends say some of the people online don't show up and the other ones say that they can see everyone including people who are offline on chat but online on facebook
???? dunno. but i'm happy

[IAmAsianBoy]

I hate it, or it could just be I hate change.

Ah well.. better get used to it. :L

[cocaine]

it shows people who are offline and only shows like 25 of them.. have to search for the rest by typing their name in.. useless

[Firehorse]

This was predicted to occur for a while now. This is what happens when facebook, and other sites, try and get clever with activity tracking. You may notice that the people it lists are the people who you have recently interacted with, be it commenting on something they do or even just looking at their profile or a photo.

Basically it's facebook telling you who you want to speak to and hiding the people it thinks you don't.

The same thing is happening with other sites. For example in a test one person who is left wing and one person who is right wing were asked to make an identical politically related google search on their PCs, the results were tailored to their political preference and were different for each person.

In my opinion this use of our activity and data is limiting what we see and do on the internet, defeating the entire concept of the world wide web.

This can also have consequences for people's social lives too, e.g. perhaps someone was waiting for someone to come online on facebook, but facebook never showed that person as online. The amount of social damage little things like this could do isn't even measureable, point of facebook defeated?

[wixard]

i don't understand, this isn't happening for me? i see everyone

[myke]

my facebook chat hasnt been changed

[Firehorse]

i don't understand, this isn't happening for me? i see everyone

Count the amount of thumbnails of online people on the left side, and then count how many people are online in the list.

[wixard]

Count the amount of thumbnails of online people on the left side, and then count how many people are online in the list.

i do and they're the same?
like itll say 50 odd are online and all of them show

[RyRy]

its gotten okay.... bearable. but still crap.

[Calvin]

Keeps telling me everytime I send a message that an error has occurred.

[Firehorse]

i do and they're the same?
like itll say 50 odd are online and all of them show

You must still have the old one then, expect to see the new one in the next week or two :P

[wixard]

You must still have the old one then, expect to see the new one in the next week or two :P

i don't cos i've used the video chat and stuff

[Johno]

I didn't mind the new one (even though it only showed the contacts it thought you would want to talk to)

But the newer one, with the sort of quick updates above it - is absolutely crap. You now see even less friends you want to talk to.

[Jack!]

You must still have the old one then, expect to see the new one in the next week or two :P

I have the new one, but mine shows everyone on the list and on the left in the thumbnails?

[Slowpoke]

Mine is awful. I use Firefox and it doesn't let me scroll through or see all the people online -- ballache!!

[peteyt]

This to me is just stupid. Okay its a partly good idea, but if anything it should be optional e.g. a setting to see all or just recent.

Facebook should let me see who's on because I want to scroll through my list. Sometimes I like to see who's on and talk to people who I haven't for ages.

Yeah I have the latest windows live messenger which shows me all but facebook chat should do to as a lot don't have the latest WLM.

I've changed my mind on some changes in the past, but I'm pretty sure I know I'll always prefer to see everyone online over this.

[Verrou]

Mine has changed back :D

[Jordan]

Mines change back too, was annoying :P

[Firehorse]

i don't cos i've used the video chat and stuff

They're probably rolling out some features separately. The video chat button hasn't appeared yet for me on any chats.

[Arron]

I don't recall having a problem with it.

[Richie]

They're probably rolling out some features separately. The video chat button hasn't appeared yet for me on any chats.

It's because you need to install the plug-in

http://www.facebook.com/videocalling


It's still fine for me, I use firefox 5.0.

[Firehorse]

It's because you need to install the plug-in

http://www.facebook.com/videocalling


It's still fine for me, I use firefox 5.0.

As I said in my previous post.




Video calling will be available soon
Please check again later.

[Jahova]

I like all the new FB changes.

[peteyt]

Have they rolled back to classic chat. It looks like it and I hope it stays like this.

[Jordy]

This has got even worse! For some reason I always get Facebook updates first and the sidebar on the right has now HALVED, it now displays a useless news feed info in the top half and about 10-15 of my most contacted friends underneath (even less than before!)

Utterly ******* useless, whilst I'd ideally stop using Facebook Chat, it's the only IM people use these days so I'm going to have to use some third party client or stick to it on the iPod Touch.

Why on earth can't it just show a list of my friends online?

Here it is;
http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/1743/fbchatt.png

[HotelUser]

Instead of using Facebook's Google+ knock off I'm just going to continue ahead using Google+ :)

[Jordy]

Instead of using Facebook's Google+ knock off I'm just going to continue ahead using Google+ :)What's the point of using a social network which nobody else does? It's anti-social if anything :P

[Shar]

What's the point of using a social network which nobody else does? It's anti-social if anything :P

Its starting to get more popular now actually :P


I really hate the new fb chat, its so annoying

[HotelUser]

What's the point of using a social network which nobody else does? It's anti-social if anything :P

I went through my Facebook contacts and invited everyone. Invites are open and infinite for everyone now :)

[Firehorse]

For my facebook chat i'm now using pidgin. Much better.


For those who hate the new facebook chat download Pidgin http://sourceforge.net/project​s/pidgin/files/Pidgin/2.9.0/pi​dgin-2.9.0.exe/download (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/Pidgin/2.9.0/pidgin-2.9.0.exe/download) and then fill out your fb user info (instructions here: http://www.facebook.com/siteto​ur/chat.php?jabber_client=1 (http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php?jabber_client=1)) and there you have your fb chat in msn style, and shows everybody that is online too. I think you can even pick to show yourself as away with it too.

[Aaron]

It'll do, but I don't like the way it chooses to show half the online people.

[Slowpoke]

It'll do, but I don't like the way it chooses to show half the online people.

Seems like a bug to me. I can never see anyone who's name begins with a letter later on in the alphabet. It's doing my head in

[Aaron]

Seems like a bug to me. I can never see anyone who's name begins with a letter later on in the alphabet. It's doing my head in

Same had to log off cause couldn't see half the online friends! -.-

[TehFroob]

It's rubbish it doesn't show who is online. They should of just kept the old one. :/

[GirlNextDoor15]

I don't like it at all. Doesn't show who is online and it looks clumsily done. Very complicated

[peteyt]

Facebook needs to really have some kind of feedback thing. Instead of just rolling out updates I'd like them to maybe even do beta testing where people have to sign up and leave detailed information.

I say detailed as to prevent people going on and just saying it is crap. As I mentioned this new chat could work, but only in my opinion if it was optional. It's handy if you only talk to certain people, but when I did run my own online station which should be back up in September, I used chat as one of many ways to advertise.

[Firehorse]

Facebook needs to really have some kind of feedback thing. Instead of just rolling out updates I'd like them to maybe even do beta testing where people have to sign up and leave detailed information.

I say detailed as to prevent people going on and just saying it is crap. As I mentioned this new chat could work, but only in my opinion if it was optional. It's handy if you only talk to certain people, but when I did run my own online station which should be back up in September, I used chat as one of many ways to advertise.

I think they're fools not to do extensive beta testing with a site that size. I've seen too many features released in the past that were buggy.
Also I think feedback would be a brilliant idea. Facebook has polls so they ought to use them to find out if people like what they're doing.

[peteyt]

I think they're fools not to do extensive beta testing with a site that size. I've seen too many features released in the past that were buggy.
Also I think feedback would be a brilliant idea. Facebook has polls so they ought to use them to find out if people like what they're doing.

Yeah the only problem with that is a lot of people hate change. I'm not sure if anyone remembers the old facebook which was a bit like MySpace where applications where on your profile's main page along with your wall and info. It was such a mess and I hated it and I was go glad when they changed it but a lot of people moaned.

I'd rather have some kind of beta, polls are okay, but a lot of people are going to say they hate it just because they hate change.

[Recursion]

I think they're fools not to do extensive beta testing with a site that size. I've seen too many features released in the past that were buggy.
Also I think feedback would be a brilliant idea. Facebook has polls so they ought to use them to find out if people like what they're doing.

This is why some people get the changes instantly and some don't, they roll it out progressively to account for issues further down in the rollout, for example, mobile companies roll out to employees, and then a select group of the public, and then another public group and so on.

[peteyt]

This is why some people get the changes instantly and some don't, they roll it out progressively to account for issues further down in the rollout, for example, mobile companies roll out to employees, and then a select group of the public, and then another public group and so on.

Yeah but they don't really take opinions. It's okay trying to make sure there's no bugs, but if no one likes the update then fixing bugs is going to be a waste of time.

There's lots of stuff facebook can do, but it needs to find out what people want. Develop something, put it in beta, get people to try it and get their feedback, and if people do like it then roll it out.

[Firehorse]

This is why some people get the changes instantly and some don't, they roll it out progressively to account for issues further down in the rollout, for example, mobile companies roll out to employees, and then a select group of the public, and then another public group and so on.

Obviously it's better than rolling out to everyone at once, but they should at least allow people to opt out of being a guinea-pig.

[wixard]

any chance this will ever go back to normal? :( mines finally changed

[DaveTaylor]

Instead of moaning, get off your arses and go socialise in person :)

[wixard]

Instead of moaning, get off your arses and go socialise in person :)

not everyone lives in some ****** village
some people may want to talk to others in other countries

[DaveTaylor]

not everyone lives in some ****** village
some people may want to talk to others in other countries

Skype? Messages? Phones? Facebook Wall? if they person is online they will talk to you, you can still go onto the persons facebook profile and see if they are online if so you can start a chat with them, simple as that. People really don't like change do they.

[cocaine]

Instead of moaning, get off your arses and go socialise in person :)

not like you've never used facebook chat

[DaveTaylor]

not like you've never used facebook chat

I use it to skive in lectures in uni, about the only time I use it to be honest, prefer phone calls.

[Recursion]

Instead of moaning, get off your arses and go socialise in person :)

Off topic, but man did I miss you. LOL.

I don't see why everyone moans about FB chat, I've never had an issue with it.

[Rozi]

I ******* hate facebook chat
It gives people who you don't want to talk to an incredibly easy and uninhibited way to talk to you
plus it doesn't work.

[DaveTaylor]

Off topic, but man did I miss you. LOL.

I don't see why everyone moans about FB chat, I've never had an issue with it.

Missed you too bbz ;)

[Firehorse]

I ******* hate facebook chat
It gives people who you don't want to talk to an incredibly easy and uninhibited way to talk to you
plus it doesn't work.

Which is the exact reason for friend lists.