Facebook Chat - Will it work?

Facebook Chat have been launched here for around a week now. For those of you who don't know yet, you will find a little toolbar at the bottom of your web browser when you log in to Facebook.

I can't show you a screenshot cause none of my friends are online now-.-

Read more about it The Facebook Blog. They have a really tiny screenshot there. For a more detailed and dissected explanation/tour, go to Inside Facebook.

Is Facebook Chat a complementary product to other applications? Or a competitive product? And, is it really necessary to have Facebook Chat?

I don't know (I always start my discussion this way eh?). But personally, I think Facebook Chat is kind of pointless.

If I need to talk to my friends in real time, I have MSN and sms! So why would I use Facebook Chat? Unless you have a large number of friends who are on Facebook but not in your MSN. Then maybe, perhaps it will work?

But somehow, I think eventually, you will add those friends in MSN. I mean, Facebook Chat is not really that convenient is it?

You have to keep the browser open so as to remain online! So say, you are waiting for one of your friends to come online, you have to constantly keep the browser open so that you will always be online and not miss each other.

Are chat history saved? If not, what if I accidentally close the browser before I read what my friends sent me? Oh no! How? Important point, no? Especially for gundus like me who have the tendency to close browsers "accidentally".

Add on at 1.42am: Okay, chat history is saved. But it's not logged permanently. So that means, I can have a "opps" moment? But I can't look back on conversations that happen eons ago!:(

Someone somewhere Unique Frequency mentioned that Facebook Chat is good for working on weaker friend links (who said this? let me know!). I guess? You can use Facebook Chat to test the water? To see if the person has the chat potential before "promoting" the person to MSN. Other than that, I really can't see how it will help to improve the weaker friend links.

(I'm drifting off topic)

Anyways, if that's really the case, I am a goner. Because I talked better with new friends via e-mail or in person as compared to MSN or any form of chat. I'm serious! I think a few of my friends have experienced that first hand. I am gibbering non-stop via email and when we see each other on MSN, I shut up. Heh.

(Back to the topic)

If Facebook Chat do catch on, I think applications like The Wall or Inbox might become obsolete? When a friend post a picture that you want to comment on and he/she is online, you'll probably prompt the person via chat and tell him/her the comment? My friends are like that. That's why I seldom have comments on my post-.- They msn me their comment.

Then again, Facebook Chat might be a compliment product to the other applications? I can't really think of an example now.

Alright, I am have thought-congestion again. I think we just have to wait and see if Facebook Chat will be successful or not eh?

What do you think?

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