It’s About Time.

28Apr08

Dear Facebook,

Thank you very much for releasing what may be the most obvious addition to your nicotine-like product. I’m not sure why the early April release of your chat client took over four years to make, but I’m sure glad that it’s out. I can now talk to all my 400+ friends in ONE web based client (everyone loves efficiency), and have yet another tool to convince my “I’m not signing up for Facebook just to be different and socially separated” friends to join.

I’m also a fan of the UI, it’s very similar to Google’s chat client in Gmail. Clearly, collecting staff from down the road was a smart move! Way to go! The UI is clean, and doesn’t interfere with my stalking social networking experience. The mini feed updates in the chat window also gives me a better connection to the person I’m chatting with, I instantly feel like we are co-browsing Facebook, something we could never *really* do before <3.

Thanks again,

Melina McLarty


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  1. 1 Jeff M on April 28, 2008 said:

    for the record, I haven’t signed up for facebook…because I don’t want them to own me (and my content I bring)…as opposed to one of your aforementioned hypotheses. …but it’s transitioning to a utility rather than “just another tool” …so…I am afraid I’m getting closer to signing up…for cliff jumping. (What did you think I was going to say - facebook?) :P

    …oh how I wane for sarcasm to work on blog comments…sigh.

  2. 2 Melina on April 28, 2008 said:

    You are not my only “anti-facebook” friend, many fall into the category mentioned ;)

  3. 3 blackball on May 29, 2008 said:

    Blackball says : I absolutely agree with this !

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