Monday, July 18, 2011

Facebook group chat

Social networking war at its best. Every day new features are added in sites to attract users.
Few days back Facebook added two new features in it, that is, Group chat and video calling. In last post I have already told you how to setup the video calling in Facebook  (read guide here). Now I will tell you about the group chat feature.
Few days back only similar group member can chat in same window, but now there is no need to add members  in same group to chat in same window. Facebook group chat feature allows online friends to chat simultaneously in one window. You can also chat with an entire Facebook group, if you are a member of that group.

Steps to group chat with online Facebook friends:

1. Login to Facebook.

2. Open the chat window present in the bottom right corner of the screen.

3. Select any friend, you want to chat with, from that list.

4. Left click on the options icon on chat box and select “Add friends to chat…”.
( New text box will appear )


5. Now add friends by typing their name.


6) Click on "Done".

Now you can have a good discussion, since all friends are chatting on same window.

Steps to chat with a Facebook group:

1. Login to Facebook.

2. Select the desired group from left sidebar.

3. Now click “Chat with group” present on the right side of the page.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

How to enable facebook video chat?

 
Facebook has launched video chat option with Skype.aiming to spice up the appeal of the world's No. 1 Internet social networking service while fending off increased competition from Google. Now you can chat with your friends in video mode but you will have to enable this chat option first. 
 
To enable this option follow these steps.

1. Log in to your facebook account

2. Go to www.facebook.com/videocalling
 
3. Click on Get Started. It will ask you to select a friend to video chat

4. Click on a friend, the chat window opens up

5. On the top of the chat window, there is the known video sign  , click it
 
 
 
6. It will ask you “Set up video calling?”

7.Click on Set Up

8. It will ask you to download a plugin exe file (on Windows)

9. Save the file, Run the file

10. Enjoy your video calling
 
To learn more about video calling, visit Facebook Help center
 

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