In the early days of the internet, online conversations were an event. The technology was novel, and it was suddenly possible to socialize with a whole bunch of friends at a distance, all at once. No ...

In a streaming live announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered details of a redesigned Facebook Chat, in order to create more layers on the company’s “social infrastructure,” as Zuckerberg ...

Facebook may soon be inviting mobile users to gather ‘round the Bonfire. The social network confirmed that it is testing a group video chat application called Bonfire in Denmark, and the app’s listing ...

Recently, I was chatting with someone via Facebook Messenger on MacOS when I received a warning that the messages couldn’t be encrypted in Safari and I should use a different browser or the Facebook ...

Making good on a promise delivered just about one year ago, Facebook announced today that its popular chat feature can now be accessed through any Jabber (XMPP)-compatible desktop instant messaging ...

Facebook Chat is a wonderful little service opening you up to the incessant, sub-literate, real-time blatherings of the wide array of superficial acquaintances you’ve coalesced over the many years: ...

Facebook Chat for Windows Mobile is a free app that does exactly what you think — and then some. In addition to letting you chat with your Facebook contacts on your mobile device, the program lets you ...

Tired of having to keep that browser tab open to Facebook just so you can keep chatting with your friends? It only takes five Quick Steps to integrate iChat with Facebook’s web-chat client and because ...

AIM is the first major instant messaging service to take advantage of Facebook Chat's new API/interface. According to a post by David Reiss on Facebook's blog, 2 billion chat messages are sent on the ...

A new phishing attack that’s spreading through Facebook chat modifies hijacked accounts in order to impersonate the social network’s security team. The attackers replace the profile picture of ...

"Work from your home, commute, or desk" is a familiar claim now appearing on Facebook billboards... actually, billboards for Workplace by Facebook, the company's enterprise collaboration service. The ...