Sign on to Facebook in your preferred Web browser. Click the blue "Chat" box at the bottom right of the window. Let the chat box expand and populate the list of your Facebook friends currently online.

How to Activate Group Chat on Facebook. Facebook's group chat feature, introduced in 2011, allows you to create a chat window that can include multiple users instead of just one.

Facebook’s messaging application doesn’t support encryption, but an open-source chat program, Cryptocat, has made it possible to chat with friends there over an encrypted connection. The ...

Turn on chat for all friends except: This is where your Ignorables or ‘No Facebook Chat’ list will come handy. If you skipped making a list, you can also enter individual people’s Facebook ...

Facebook has built a new feature codenamed Host Chat that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I've contacted ...

So far, Facebook Chat is indeed rolling out slowly. Of my 130-odd friends, only 5 show up Chat-ready, but more seem to be appearing as the hours tick by. At first, the limited list makes for an ...

Even if you don’t respond to the friend request, they’ll get to see list of all your friends, thanks to Facebook’s “People You May Know” feature.

You should now be able to chat with both your Facebook friends and your iChat buddies from within iChat. I can’t confirm that this works, as I don’t have a Facebook account.

Facebook Instant Messaging — chat with your Facebook friends directly from Skype. Facebook Contacts Tab — a new tab within Skype dedicated to your Facebook contacts list.