Over the past three years
Facebook has extended its dominance of social networking from that of
being a medium of news and picture exchange to web-based chatting, more
commonly known as instant messaging.
So quick has Facebook
managed to establish Facebook chat as a dominant network that it has
caught many of the established players such as AIM, MSN Messenger and
Digsby off guard. In fact they have been caught so far off guard that
these networks are now shadows in terms of popularity of their former
selves. Indeed, MSN Messenger is closing down next month (May 2013).
Using the Facebook Chat Network
Whilst Facebook chat is
indeed a dominant chat network, and Facebook does now offer the ability
to chat on your desktop there are alternatives to the Facebook Messenger
program.
There are many reasons as to why you might want to change from using Facebook’s own desktop Messenger application:
- Signing in problems:
Often due to the “web” phrasing connection nature strategy of the
Facebook Messenger application, sign in problems can and do occur.
- Privacy concerns:
Now that Facebook has become stock market listed there is a growing
pressure to monetize apps to a greater extent to achieve greater
share-holder value year on year. There is a conflict in interest between
the Facebook users and the Facebook shareholders.
- Advertisement intrusion:
Even though at the time of writing Facebook Messenger is free of
advertising, we’ve found that Facebook has with no notice randomly added
advertising in various places of their online assets once market
dominance has been established.
- Missing features:
Though Facebook Messenger does indeed offer the utility that you would
expect from a Messenger application – chatting, there are many features
such as auto-responding, text formatting and status changing that you
may feel like you are missing out on from your desktop.
Chit Chat for Facebook is an independently developed desktop Facebook Messenger download
that connects to the Facebook chat network. This unofficially developed
application includes some features that many have come to expect from
instant messenger networks over the years including status change
notifications and a tabbed instant messenger interface.
More recently the
developers of this Facebook messenger download have included a clever
chat history database system which makes it easy to find messages that
were sent a long time ago.
Advantages That Chit Chat Provides Over Facebook Messenger
- Robust Connection: This
Facebook Messenger alternative offers two methods by which it connects
to Facebook chat, if one doesn’t work the system will automatically try
the second methodology. This is all in the background of course.
- Sign In Notifications:
This clever chat app lets you know when your Facebook friends and foes
have logged in and out with a toast bar in the bottom right hand side.
- Database Chat History:
Facebook’s chat history isn’t exactly the easiest to sift through
online. If storing your conversations is important to you, then you’ll
love what Chit Chat has to offer.
Independently Developed–
There is a growing area of concern over the dominance of Facebook in the
area of social networking and the extent of personal data and
information with which Facebook have access to. Including a Facebook
application on one’s computer offer an additional opportunity for
Facebook to connect personal information that you have elected to share
with information that you have not explicitly opted to share. Chit Chat
being independently developed mitigates this issue.
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