{"id":49,"date":"2008-04-08T21:31:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T02:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-01-30T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T19:37:20","slug":"facebook-gets-chatty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/2008\/04\/08\/facebook-gets-chatty\/","title":{"rendered":"facebook gets chatty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, facebook has slowly rolled out a brand new chat feature.<\/p>\n<p>From the looks of it, it seems very similar to gmail chat in that your chat window stays within the browser along the bottom.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a handful of conversations using it, and it seems to be working fine.<\/p>\n<p>CNN.com posted an article today about the launch of new feature, and I was fortunate enough to be asked about the launch and about social networking sites in general.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/04\/08\/facebook.chat\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/04\/08\/facebook.chat\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now the real question is, will the introduction of facebook chat slowly render AIM obsolete?\u00a0 With more and more messaging programs moving to in-browser format, will client-based chat programs become a thing of the past?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, even though I still have AIM logged in on my home computer, I find that I&#8217;m using it less and less while I am increasing my usage of programs like g-chat within Google.\u00a0 I feel that the introduction of facebook chat will only augment that further.\u00a0 Remember AIM profiles?\u00a0 Perhaps it&#8217;s only me, but I never check AIM profiles anymore.\u00a0 When AIM 6.0 came out and you could now hover over a screen name to see an away message and it negated the need to right-click to view the away message on the profile.\u00a0 Now we&#8217;ve moved to an age where facebook and myspace profiles have been the thing to replace AIM profiles.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to think about the years ahead and how we&#8217;re going to continue to evolve in this idea of &#8220;staying connected&#8221;.\u00a0 I remember how excited I was when got my own e-mail address when I was about twelve and how I built my own website on Tripod.\u00a0 Now, things like e-mail, facebook and the Internet are so ingrained in our culture that we&#8217;re now more &#8220;connected&#8221; then we ever were before.\u00a0 Is it for the better?\u00a0 Hopefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, facebook has slowly rolled out a brand new chat feature. From the looks of it, it seems very similar to gmail chat in that your chat window stays within the browser along the bottom.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a handful of conversations using it, and it seems to be working fine. CNN.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}