Siggy posted ‘early signs of Facebok fatigue’, arguing whether social networking fad is going down. Three days later, this most popular social network site announced that IM (Instant Message) is now available to all Facebook members. It now begins to compete with the similar services offered by Yahoo message, MSN and Google Talk.
Now all Facebook users can see a chat bar at the bottom right corner of their page when they log on.
"Some distinct features of Facebook's integrated IM service include notification through sound and provision to view the Mini-Feed (updates) of a friend's profile page while chatting with them in real time. Moreover, the chat history isn't logged permanently."
Will this new launched service boost the number of new registration or hold all old users? Let’s wait and see.
“Hands on with Facebook Chat—timewasters only”
Now all Facebook users can see a chat bar at the bottom right corner of their page when they log on.
"Some distinct features of Facebook's integrated IM service include notification through sound and provision to view the Mini-Feed (updates) of a friend's profile page while chatting with them in real time. Moreover, the chat history isn't logged permanently."
Will this new launched service boost the number of new registration or hold all old users? Let’s wait and see.
“Hands on with Facebook Chat—timewasters only”
4 comments:
Possibly Facebook is trying to stem the tide before it is too late by offering a kind of a "new MSN" tool.
I think most users are at ease with MSN, as it is simple to use. That does not mean it is untouchable, but I feel that the version Facebook is now offering must bring a totally new perspective to this method of communication in order to make a breakthrough, let alone to oust the MSN.
I echo your words: Let's wait and see.
Shery even though i use facebook i didn't notice that. But to tell you the truth i will not use i believe that for those that use MSN i wont be easy to change their attitude.
I believe that it is move from Facebook in order to change the climate and reverse the numbers that started declining. According to some statistis that i found :the number of people logging on to the social networking site in the United Kingdom dropped by 400,000 between December and January od 2007-2008( http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/310272).
What we have to do is to wiat and see......
i am trying this new function these days. To be honest, I am not planning to shift it from my MSN and G-talk since I am not seeing any differences between them. But I might change my mind if Facebook introduce a feature with its competitive advantage.
I'm starting to believe that facebook is facing some "hard" competition and will do anything to differentiate!!! Even combine different services that are escaping its original functions. I don' t think however that MSN users will switch habits that easily... Lets see if they can copy Skype after this...
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