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.

And then there’s this feature where only selected friends can be found online and the rest of your thousands of friends can be found at the bottom. That’s a lot of unfairness…and scrolling. The ones online are marked with green bullets while those offline are marked with gray bullets. Now, that’s a Facebook Chat problem. They even have an automated system which predicts whom to send offline messages. What must be the gauge of their system? With Facebook having millions of users in several alphabets and languages already, this constant changing of features is irritating. It is irritating not just to you and your friends and your neighbor next door but irritating to millions of users worldwide, thanks to Facebook being the most widely distributed social network brand all over the world.

Users can’t find any other alternative. On Twitter, you can merely tweet a brief sentence. Google Plus is still in its infancy but is a potential alternative though. Tumblr is okay but its marketing department sort of has a problem since it has not reached across all demographics. Friendster is too obsolete. With Facebook having a real monopoly on the social networking system on the Net, all the million users in the world are beholden to Facebook. And we can’t do anything about it since we are no administrators. That’s real dumb of us. Maybe we should create another social networking site. And end up like Tumblr – losers. Oh no, everything is bleak for us indeed.

But here’s good news though. Facebook Chat can still be reversed to the old setup with only online users that can be seen. However, this reversal can only be performed on the Firefox Web browser since Firefox is open source software not beholden to any company. And then Facebook Chat has now introduced video chat. This lure may possibly multiply the already many new users who have signed up on Facebook recently. This will radically change everything. Video chat on Facebook will definitely be cool. All you have to do is click on the webcam on your computer and log in via Skype.

With all the hullaballoo surrounding the seemingly erratic ways Facebook has been doing in the past few months, Facebook actually issued a statement sometime last August about the matter. According to Facebook, the recent changes are reflective of how the creative team decides on a few experimental rollouts. These rollouts will be enhanced as time goes on a few more months from now. So, expect more of these changes from Facebook any day from now, especially the Facebook Chat feature and keep tabs on Facebook Chat problems. All of us are certainly hoping that these issues will never be experienced by us again. But must we be keeping that as a sustaining hope or should we inhibit from Facebook altogether?

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.

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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If you have your own website now you can make your link shares look really nice when they are shared on Facebook if you follow the steps here.

To see it in action Leave a Comment Below and you will see it appear in your news feed and on your profile.

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