Facebook on Sunday began a slow roll-out of its new Chat service. Justin Smith at Inside Facebook has a tour of the new service. Justin’s quick review concludes that Facebook Chat is a “very ...

So far, Facebook Chat is indeed rolling out slowly. Of my 130-odd friends, only 5 show up Chat-ready, but more seem to be appearing as the hours tick by. At first, the limited list makes for an ...

While Facebook does not allow you to use the chat feature for your business's page, you can still do so in your personal capacity. The "audience selector" feature that Facebook has implemented allows ...

Facebook Chat has evolved to enable more than simple one-to-one chatting. You can now talk to all members of a group using the Group Chat feature, for example. You can also invite multiple friends to ...

At a Facebook press event on Tuesday announcing changes to the social network, chief Mark Zuckerberg slipped in an interesting fact about Facebook's built-in chat client. "I'm pretty sure [it's] the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

When Facebook first announced its new instant messaging features many were disappointed to discover that the company had opted to use its own, closed chat system rather than an open protocol like ...

One somewhat overlooked side effect of last week’s Facebook Groups launch was the inexplicable disappearance of the “Clear Chat History” button from Facebook Chat, which is currently undergoing some ...

Facebook has built a new feature codenamed “Host Chat” that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I’ve contacted ...