Does anyone know why people are complaining about it? it works perfectly fine for me, i actually love it!
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Does anyone know why people are complaining about it? it works perfectly fine for me, i actually love it!
Mine doesn't show everyone whose online, piece of junk.
I just don't like it at all, I've never used it since I've been on facebook.
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spuds
Ah I use it now and then, it would be worse if it was advanced, what would be the point? we already have msnQuote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
Won't work on Safari and I don't wish to use I.E, Firefox or Chrome.
It works good for me I quite like it :) ok wif anything hahas :)
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 >;[
They keep on updating it and it's getting annoying like habbo.
People don't like change, I'm one of those people.
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
I hate it, or it could just be I hate change.
Ah well.. better get used to it. :L
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
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?
i don't understand, this isn't happening for me? i see everyone
my facebook chat hasnt been changed
Count the amount of thumbnails of online people on the left side, and then count how many people are online in the list.Quote:
Originally Posted by wixard
i do and they're the same?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hashterix
like itll say 50 odd are online and all of them show
its gotten okay.... bearable. but still crap.
Keeps telling me everytime I send a message that an error has occurred.
You must still have the old one then, expect to see the new one in the next week or two :PQuote:
Originally Posted by wixard
i don't cos i've used the video chat and stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by Hashterix
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.
I have the new one, but mine shows everyone on the list and on the left in the thumbnails?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hashterix
Mine is awful. I use Firefox and it doesn't let me scroll through or see all the people online -- ballache!!
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.
Mine has changed back :D
Mines change back too, was annoying :P
They're probably rolling out some features separately. The video chat button hasn't appeared yet for me on any chats.Quote:
Originally Posted by wixard
I don't recall having a problem with it.
It's because you need to install the plug-inQuote:
Originally Posted by Hashterix
http://www.facebook.com/videocalling
It's still fine for me, I use firefox 5.0.
As I said in my previous post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richie
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Video calling will be available soon
Please check again later.
I like all the new FB changes.
Have they rolled back to classic chat. It looks like it and I hope it stays like this.
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;
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 :PQuote:
Originally Posted by HotelUser
Its starting to get more popular now actually :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Jordy
I really hate the new fb chat, its so annoying
I went through my Facebook contacts and invited everyone. Invites are open and infinite for everyone now :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordy
For my facebook chat i'm now using pidgin. Much better.
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For those who hate the new facebook chat download Pidgin 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/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.
It'll do, but I don't like the way it chooses to show half the online people.