Due to its demand crossing demographics and countries, Facebook has instituted a chat tool. But as the years dragged on since its inception in 2008, it has admittedly experienced some Facebook Chat problems. Facebook Chat was actually released in April 2008. It is a sidebar located at the lower portion of your Facebook page. And it is retained there until one opts to log out of Facebook. But you can also have the option in Facebook layouts of minimizing the Facebook Chat bar. Yet Facebook Chat is not just limited to the Web. You can also log in to it using iPhone, AOL Instant Messenger and Windows Live. And as with private messaging, Facebook Chat is a private conversation between two or multiple users in a conference. Messages are saved up to a number of days. Today, though, all your chat conversations are included saved in the Messages inbox and this has admittedly caused problems.

The main problem with Facebook is that they are facing other competing social networking web sites so much that they tend to change their features every week or so. And that’s just changing the features. But this does not necessarily mean that every time Facebook features change they improve. Just read about any Facebook Chat problem that crops up. Some are a hassle. And Facebook Chat is not exempted.

Users will always complain about a Facebook Chat problem. For starters, Facebook Chat now includes in the list even your friends that are offline. According to Facebook, this is so you can easily send private messages to a friend who is offline on the Facebook Chat sidebar. But if you are really intent on sending a private message to a friend even when he or she is offline, then you simply go to his/her wall. It’s as easy as that. No need to include those offline friends on Facebook Chat, right? But with this new Facebook feature, you have to scroll down a very long list of friends who are both online and offline. That’s just plain nuts.
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Facebook released a new feature not to long ago. It allows you some searching criteria to help narrow down your search. This comes in handy if you only know someone’s first or last name. Now you can search by location, education and workplace.

I came across a cool trick tonight to get the old style Facebook Chat back. In this video I show you how to do it.

In 2 quick simple steps this is how to get the old chat back

• Sign out of chat if you are already signed in
• From the Facebook homepage in the bottom left click on the Go Online link

That’s it, you should now see the old Facebook Chat style, well at least at the time of this post. We all know Facebook continues to change.

Do you like the new chat with the docking and updates or prefer the old simple style? Tell me below.

Facebook is about to launch a new profile that is VERY different to what we are used to. There are some things I love about and some that are taking me a while to get used to.

One thing I do LOVE are the new Facebook Covers.

• This will allow users to be very creative and express their personalities on their profiles without becoming too much like on MySpace.
• It will create new business like ours: we will be offering Custom Facebook Profile Cover Designs
• You can learn about a person visually very quickly if they put up a relevant Cover to them.

The new Facebook Timeline is pretty cool as far as getting to a certain point in time quickly however it does hove some downfalls.

• The main focus is on pictures and makes for a slower loading page. This could be frustrating for users on slow internet connections. I know I will rip my hair out when I try to use it at my parents place in the sticks.
• It is VERY drastic change, Facebook better be ready for lots of complaints.

What do you think of the new profile? It’s coming soon whether you like it or not. Will you complain about it when it launches like millions of others will or will you embrace it?

A few days ago Facebook launched a new feature called “Subscribers“. There is speculation that this came about due to the recent success of Twitter and Google+ following a similar method. Like “following” someone on Twitter or “circling” someone on Google+ you can now “subscribe” to a Facebook users status updates.

This basically means that even if they have not added you as a friend you can follow their status updates by having their updates appear in your news feed. A Page essentially does the same thing but now Facebook is bringing the capability to a regular user that doesn’t have their own Page.

Watch the video above to learn how to add the Facebook Subscribe button to your profile.

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