Chapter 10. “Facebook Unveils Instant Messaging”{0}
Collaboration systems are tools that support the works of teams. They are IT based and they do this by sharing the flow of such information. Businesses can solve a number of tasks they may have with collaboration. Some of these may include but are not limited to: telecommuting, online meetings, deploying applications, and remote project and sales management.
A popular term and one of the most dominant collaboration applications, is eamil. More specifically, instant messaging allows people to communicate in “real time”. Private chat rooms are created in real time over the internet to allow communication between two people. (Baltzan,Phillips,p. 384)
In the CNN.com article titled “Facebook unveils instant messaging feature”, it describes a brand new instant messaging service called Facebook chat. Friends on Facebook will actually be able to communicate with each other in real time, back and forth instantly. This differs from the normal built in email messaging Facebook offers. When users click online friends, they will see who is available to chat and they will have the option to move their chat book and clear their history.
One interesting idea the article mentions is the idea that Facechat could possibly be serious competition for AOL’s instant messaging client AIM. They are currently the number one instant messaging service in the United States. This is because Facebook is becoming so popular, even passing up Myspace, which is something no one saw coming!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/08/facebook.chat/index.html