Comments on: Facebook does Instant Messanging (IM) http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/23/facebook-does-instant-messanging-im A permanent record for what's interesting today - this is my live journal Fri, 16 May 2008 04:18:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: byte http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/23/facebook-does-instant-messanging-im#comment-133484 byte Sun, 04 May 2008 22:19:41 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/23/facebook-does-instant-messanging-im#comment-133484 Hi Claudine! I guess the whole idea of Facebook chat is to "lock you into Facebook.com". Why? They can sell you ads. Bombard you with notifications. And keep the "mindshare" within the site itself... More eyeballs, the better, right? While you and I might not feel this is cool stuff, in theory, the kids of today, might find this much better than other forms of IM... Jabber? Thats still very much limited to "geeks". Even with GTalk, I seem to have more people on AIM/MSN/Yahoo! Hi Claudine!

I guess the whole idea of Facebook chat is to “lock you into Facebook.com”. Why? They can sell you ads. Bombard you with notifications. And keep the “mindshare” within the site itself… More eyeballs, the better, right?

While you and I might not feel this is cool stuff, in theory, the kids of today, might find this much better than other forms of IM…

Jabber? Thats still very much limited to “geeks”. Even with GTalk, I seem to have more people on AIM/MSN/Yahoo!

]]> By: Claudine http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/23/facebook-does-instant-messanging-im#comment-133102 Claudine Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:52:10 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/23/facebook-does-instant-messanging-im#comment-133102 Facebook chat doesn't cooperate with Jabber or allow message logging/history, so I'll stick with my desktop client for now. Facebook chat doesn’t cooperate with Jabber or allow message logging/history, so I’ll stick with my desktop client for now.

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