Facebook Chat and Why I Think It Sucks!

2:43 pm on April 23rd, 2008 | General, Tech

Its a rat race. That’s what it is. I do not seem to get the point why Facebook needed a chat window for its already cluttered and lame looking interface. Google has chat. Microsoft has chat. So may be they thought lets get chat too.

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The online friends functionality it shows was already available. And if you see a friend online you can always post a message on his wall. And he can reply back if he wants to, then and there. Its not like you need an entirely separate area for chat, some other area for posting walls and yet another area where you send messages. I mean wall posts are public and messages are private – I can understand them. But why in the name of god do you need chat?

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There was one blog the other day where I see people whining about no “folders” in Gmail in the comments. Gmail has labels. Why do you need folders? And what is the point of different webmail clients if they all look, feel and offer the same? If you cannot live without your “folders”, please DO NOT use Gmail. What I don’t need right now is Google doing something stupid and adding a chat interface as default to Orkut, just because Facebook has chat too.

7 Responses to “Facebook Chat and Why I Think It Sucks!”

  1. seige says:
    September 29, 2008 at 5:03 am

    there us nothing wrong with having chat on facebook.. infact using walls and inbox to send messages shits me as its not INSTANT and it spams you emails but i wont turn the email notifications as i wanna know if i got a message while offline… my only issue with facebook caht is its buggy as all buggery

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  2. Johnothan tanner-adamson-scott says:
    October 5, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    i like the concept, but the excecution is RUBBISH.

    might as well send smoke signals. and i do.
    so…

    check out this group which contains true stories about how much facebook chat has let people down. some are rather disturbing…

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27038038958

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  3. Pauly_C says:
    November 20, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    I absolutely hate the frustration I must endure when attempting to use the chat feature on FaceBook. It consistently shuts down every other time I try to send a response to a friend. I start every new conversation with ” I’ll pre-warn you, my chat window will pop me offline in a minute or so. Sorry… Google says it’s FaceBooks’ fault.”
    Windows Messenger Live…That’s highly reliable, and my preferred choice.

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  4. gerusya says:
    April 22, 2009 at 5:57 am

    PC Gaming Recession?

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  5. serguna says:
    April 26, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Thank you author

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  6. Non-Techie Talk says:
    May 6, 2010 at 9:16 am

    Facebook Chat is brutal. You can’t resize the window, you can’t move it out of the way, you can’t save the conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg talks a lot about how many engineers Facebook has but, honestly, can anyone tell by looking at the dog’s breakfast of an interface they’ve foisted upon us?

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  7. kashish mirza says:
    July 9, 2010 at 9:18 am

    I think facebook is good for chat try and see

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