Using the Facebook "Chat"

Way back in the day...

Kelly, my sis and I would communicate using AOL in chat rooms. It was pretty fun. We could type back and forth and have a great chat without the worry of the huge expense at that time of phone calls.

Our technology has changed things and also it has come back again in a more intimate way. Whereas we had to pick a "room" and jump in.. Facebook allows a personal written communication through typing with anyone that is identified as your friend and happens to have Facebook open. In the last week I have been picking people off my friend list and communicating through their chat line. Francisco in Rome is just a live chat away. I picked him up browsing through facebook at about 1:30 in the morning his time and about 5:30 our time. We had a great chat and added his sister to my facebook friend list as a result of it. A student in one my classes is also on my facebook as a friend. I had a nice post Christmas conversation through typing in the IChat section too. Kelly has been there and we have continued the typing chat tradition.

In the old AOL format she could carry on conversations with as many as 6 people at once through this method. I am not sure that she is doing the same thing now but the thought is intriguing. We used to get in a public room and ask inside questions back and forth. It drove some other folks in the rooms nuts. I would anticipate her response and have it typed up so that when it came through there was a quick reply. If the response was not what was expected then I would delete what I had written and re do another. What fun.

So you facebook people give it a try.. its really neat.