Facebook Chat Launches, For Some

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1. Spencer Fry
   

   April 6th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

   I’ve got access.

   Networks that I’m associated with:

   Yale, New York City

2. anon
   

   April 6th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

   The Stanford network has Facebook Chat

3. Basti
   

   April 6th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

   Is this really necessary? Aren’t there enough IM systems out there?

4. Kris
   

   April 6th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

   I’ve got access as well-

   Brown.

5. Jane
   

   April 6th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

   Does the chat window show up at the bottom of the page, almost like it was part of the toolbar?

   I’m in Seattle, WA and Washington State Univ. networks. No chat for us yet

6. J Lane
   

   April 6th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

   Don’t you know that Facebook has to launch their own half-baked version of everything? Why on earth would they consider actually integrating with something that’s good?

7. Drew
   

   April 6th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

   guess google isn’t the only one with ivy league leanings…

8. Marsello
   

   April 6th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

   Another move by Facebook to become the center of your web activities. If Google can supplant YM with its Gtalk via Gmail, maybe Facebook can do the same, hey it’s worth a shot.

   http://www.feedbacksecrets.com

9. Kevin
   

   April 6th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

   Surprise surprise but it seems that the Harvard network was among the chosen as well.

10. John
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    UC Berkeley too

11. Azhar
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Another reason for lamers to use Facebook for 6 or 8 hours a day.

12. Cory
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    The University of Iowa network has the IM

13. tom
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    I’ve got the IM; part of the Claremont Colleges, University of Chicago, and Chicago networks.

14. james
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    ivy league all the way!

15. Matt
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    I have it– my only network is NYU.

16. m.
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    I have access to Facebook chat (stanford network). This thing is really interesting. I’ve popped out the facebook chat window, and will probably leave it open along with msn.

    Just a few comments: it doesn’t have options such as “busy”, etc. which is a shame. But looking good nonetheless.

17. Tom
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    I dont have it, University of Edinburgh (UK) & London networks…

    Looks like it’s American Ivy League college networks, much like the beginning of facebook!

18. Steve Eckelberry
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    It seems that only University networks have the chat.

19. Memo
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    And with this feature.. Facebook finally succeeds in becoming everything AOL was in… wait for it…. *1997*

    lolz

    I mean, really.. this is sad on so many levels… a walled in garden with chat?? WOW.. my mind=blown. Where have I see this before??

20. Jose
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    I had enough of facebook news!

21. Phil
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    I’m so twittered-up, facebooked-out, I decided this weekend to go out with REAL PEOPLE and get drunk. Haven’t had so much fun in years -:)

22. big
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    interest

23. Your Daddy
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    LOL, yeah, this isn’t mind blowing stuff.

    Also, this site and Cnet News are pretty much RAID1 now.

24. Sean
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    Wow their own chat client, what will they think of next?

25. Whit Scott
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    There are a lot of chat services out there, but a lot of the people I know who are on Facebook are not on AIM. This could make work nearly impossible.

26. Brian
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Seriously guys - does everything need to be groundbreaking or revolutionary with you? Whatever happened to giving credit for smart business moves?

    Facebook’s big edge is that it brings me closer to my social network - and a huge, huge swath of my social network is not at my fingertips in any of my existing IM clients.

    Suddenly, they are!

27. crashnburn007
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    Canadian University networks don’t have the chat yet.

28. YouYap.com
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    Can we get news on new Entrepreneur?
    Tired of same news from Google, Facebook, MySpace

29. Deniz
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    I’m on the Harvard network and I have the chat.

    Reason for Facebook’s ivy leanings: Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard and also hired a bunch of people (friends or not) from Harvard and other ivies..

    Another reason: Facebook got started at Harvard, and was not open to anyone who didn’t go to Harvard..

    .. and even before that, its first incarnation was called facemash, and you decided who’s ugly , and who’s uglier etc.

30. Jon
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    Come on facebook! Miami University is a “Public Ivy” and we were one of the earlier facebook networks! Give me my chat!

31. Lindsay
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    I am a member of the Los Angeles network, as well as the University of Iowa network. I see another UI member has chimed in, which means it’s the UI connection and not LA.

    The service looks okay. The weird part? When on Facebook I want to contact friends or check in on their lives, but taking the next step to talk with them… Well, it breaks down a barrier that I want with some of the people on my friend list. It doesn’t appear there are any specific sorting features. Let’s hope they put those in place. We all have communication specifications with various people in our broader social networks. Social networking websites help create another way to enact those communication specs — enabling the user to have more control. They better figure out a good way to sort, turn off, or otherwise control the IM or else FB will lose part of its end user value.

    I am a huge FB fan, but even I can’t help but wonder if they are going the way of AOL. I hope they are the first ones to figure out how the maintenance of social networks (not social networking websites) will morph online over the next 2-3 years.

32. Lindsay
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Oh yeah - let’s knock off the “ivy” pissing match on this thread. It is a completely inconsequential part of the discussion. We don’t know why they chose the networks they did — and frankly it doesn’t matter how “ivy” the choices were.

33. Mark
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    The New Orleans network doesn’t have chat

34. Jesus H Christ
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    I’m no expert, but maybe they should be working on a way to monetize the traffic they already have.

35. S
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Naseem is a girl’s name.

36. Oleg
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    The screenshot really reminds me of Google talk, when it opens in GMail in the bottom right corner

37. Adam Reineke
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    The Iowa State University network appears to have it.

    Either that or the Des Moines, IA network does, but if that was the case, I’d have more friends online.

38. Sunil
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    Nice effort by facebook

39. vc
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    yale, seattle, microsoft, wharton

40. Simon Owens
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    I don’t know if it does this yet (i’m pretty sure it doesn’t) but Facebook should allow people to message people *outside* of facebook. That way, its message system also works as an email address. That’d be pretty damn cool and would make their pages even more sticky.

41. Connor
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    MIT has facebook chat as well…

42. Fidel Cast
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Who uses Facebook still?

43. poemas
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    I don’t like facebook because the other day I apply and the system told that I dont qualify just because I didnt went to certain university, Iam an student but the university where Iam at it looks like is not on facebook list.

44. Chris McCorkle
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    @3 no… there will never be enough…

    /sarcasm

45. Mike
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    @Fidel, how about almost every college student in the world?

    My schools right over the charles from Harvard and MIT but no IM yet.

46. Sylvain
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Carnegie Mellon University network network appears to have it too..

47. alex
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    dartmouth has it too.

48. Rushabh Choksi
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Thats interesting. I wonder what next they plan to do?

49. uw student
    

    April 6th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    university of wisconsin-madison has it; stop bitching by the way if you want to talk to people outside of facebook, her is an idea call them or use aim. this just adds another (appreciated level) to facebook. maybe this will produce something slightly closer to actual human contact on facebook

50. vidya
    

    April 7th, 2008 at 12:10 am

    I am part of stanford network and it is too cool. I like the chat now as I ca

51. web hosting
    

    April 7th, 2008 at 2:21 am

    I agree with uw student, it’s better to contact them outside of facebook that will let you talk freely.

52. Ewaste
    

    April 7th, 2008 at 2:54 am

    I wouldn’t chat on Facebook after the photo leaks last week.

53. Dennis Bjørn Petersen
    

    April 7th, 2008 at 7:33 am

    WOOOH You can now chat on Facebook??!! WAUW what a cool year 2006-feature! =P

    It’s a couple of years too late. Do we need another chat widget? It won’t rock my world.

54. Trevor Mauch
    

    April 7th, 2008 at 11:41 am

    Sounds cool… but not a game changer by any means. Seems like this is really Facebooks response to some people saying they need a real-time chat feature…

    … but I was thinking it would be more “Twitterish” and allow 1 to many communication.

    Hmmm… I guess the only upside for me is that a lot of my colleagues/friends are on Facebook… but most of them don’t all have the same IM client (either MSN, Gtalk, AIM, etc.). So, this could be a way to consolidate all of my friends onto one chat platform…

    … that is if they stay logged into Facebook all of the time… which is unlikely.

    So, for me… no big deal… probably use it every now and then. Do like their step into real-time communication though… that’s where it’s at… people like instant gratification these days.

    - Trevor

55. Trevor Mauch
    

    April 7th, 2008 at 11:42 am

    oops… Put my email address as the web URL in my last comment… lol.

56. Deadpool?
    

    April 7th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    Mark and Michael - Are you sending Social.IM to the deadpool?

57. rutipo
    

    April 8th, 2008 at 2:03 am

    We have it too - Brown network. Looks cool.

58. rachel
    

    April 8th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    I’ve got access - I think through UPenn Alum network.

59. Marc
    

    April 8th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    @29 - Thank goodness for ivy leaguers like you keeping us up to date on the news.

    On a lighter note, I look forward to seeing FB develop more apps which produce no revenue and need to be subsidized by the fools throwing money into the the black hole that is FB. Microsoft’s diversionary tactic of investing in FB at high valuation was genius. They will have kept it out of the hands of competitors long enough to collapse under it’s own weight.

60. Q
    

    April 10th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Georgetown doesn’t have it yet.

61. Jarred
    

    April 15th, 2008 at 9:25 am

    This is huge, much huger than many have yet realized. I wrote up my thoughts at Tropophilia: http://tropophilia.com/2008/04.....mes-home/.

    I’m interested to know what you think. I can’t believe people don’t think this isn’t a game changer…

    Jarred
    http://tropophilia.com

62. Eric
    

    April 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    I have chat and I am part of the University of Kentucky network. And yes, you CAN turn chat off if you don’t want to chat during your Facebook session.

    UK is not an ivy league school (far from it). So I don’t really understand why they are part of the group of colleges selected for beta testing. But I’m not complaining!

63. bobby
    

    April 18th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    somehow i got this chat on facebook.. but the ppl at my school dont
    i go to gunn high school, and that is my network, and its theirs as well. i aint trippin though, as long as i have it

64. Barb Dickey
    

    April 20th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    I was surprised this evening. Facebook chat popped up on my page. Have been chatting with some friends who also have it. Must admit, that I really enjoy it.
    It finally brings an added element of humanity to facebook, in that the social interaction is so immediate. I actually happen to like communicating with my facebook friends and as we know that’s not always the case.

65. M
    

    April 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Boston has it. Michigan doesn’t.

66. David
    

    April 23rd, 2008 at 5:17 am

    Clemson has it… which I’m pretty sure means everyone else does too.

67. Kurt Alfred Kluever
    

    April 23rd, 2008 at 7:16 am

    RIT and/or Google networks currently have the chat feature enabled

68. makeda nock
    

    April 23rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    i hate it. it kills the originality of facebook. i dont need IM on my facebook…thats wat AIM and MSN is for

69. nouglyameric
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 2:55 am

    every to ramble and climb my dad decay year sweet, a scientist. with box beech log. I started my days reaction and in a hollow

70. keygermanall
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 2:56 am

    for the that turtle, called from with whatever my dad came