Instant Messaging service by Facebook soon!
Instant Messaging has become one of the most popular usages on the Internet. I don’t know a single person who uses the Internet that doesn’t have an instant messaging account. Whether it’s MSN Messenger, GTalk, Aim, ICQ, Skype or even services like Twitter and twhirl, everyone is connected and chatting online in some regards.
Facebook is soon to release its own Instant Messaging service in the next several days. Word has it that the chat service will be built into users profile pages and allow their friends to chat to them directly via their profile. Unfortunately, previous plans of building the chat client on the jabber framework is no longer the case. I think this is a greedy move on Facebook’s behalf, but I’m sure they have a valid reason for this, time will tell. Jabber would have allowed users using services such as GTalk (jabber based) to interface with Facebook chat - that would be ultimate connectivity, everyone so very connected!
I wonder whether this is going to be the step that takes Facebook to a new level and become the number 1 social network in the world, above MySpace. I have an idea for Facebook, that has not been done, in fact, I almost guarantee that my idea would take Facebook to the number 1 position as most interactive social network on the web :)
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