Facebook launched a beta chat widget this past Saturday to a select few networks. Now you can tell who’s really on Facebook entirely too much. I’m not sure if I’d ever really use this, since I regularly have AIM or Google Talk open when I’m online. It might be real useful if you could IM those you aren’t friends with to clarify if you know each other first, but of course there are security precautions with that idea as well. Hopefully it will launch soon to a network near you.
[ via Tech Digest ]
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