Facebook confirms it will launch online chat tools

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Beijing Time March 19 News, according to foreign media reports, Facebook today at a press conference to demonstrate the upcoming online chat tool (IM), and launched a new privacy control tool.

Figure for upcoming online chat tool Facebook Chat (Source: TechCrunch)

Facebook IM Tools

The IM software, called Facebook Chat, will be officially online in "a few weeks". This is a web-based program, users do not need to install, after landing can be at the bottom of each page to see the chat bar. By using Facebook Chat, users can learn about whether their friends are online, who they are currently chatting with, and so on.

From the live display, although Facebook Chat can open multiple chat windows at the same time, only one-to-one chats are not supported. If the user is offline or unwilling to use the Facebook Chat, the chat information will be automatically forwarded to the Inbox. In addition, Facebook saves Chat records, which users can view at any time. But its state setting only has "on-line", "off-line" and "daze" three kinds, did not "leave". And although it can be minimized, the tool cannot be completely shut down.

This IM tool is not based on the Jabber protocol, so users cannot use the client software outside the Facebook station. In addition, Facebook did not develop the corresponding API, the third party program is temporarily unable to invoke. Peter Deng, a chat product manager at Facebook, said the product would continue to develop new functionality, but there was no plan to integrate it with Peter Deng, such as AIM and gtalk.

New Privacy Control Tools

Facebook also unveiled a new privacy control tool on the same day, which is expected to be officially launched next Wednesday. Naomi Gleit, a Facebook product manager, says users can group friends and display different personal information, mini blogs, photo albums, and more. And the same user can be added to multiple custom groups, giving users more control.

At the end of last year, Facebook began to let users manage their friends in groups, but there were quite a few things to do after grouping.

"Facebook was perfect four years ago because the users were mainly college students," said Matt Cohler, vice president of Facebook. But Facebook now has 67 million active users, more than two-thirds of whom are not on the U.S. mainland. "For today's users, they need new ways of controlling privacy," he said. "he said.