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Facebook chats, adds funny cats
Two reasons to revisit Facebook this week — the Web site has added online chat for all users, and there’s a new application you might like.
Facebook Chat, which launched a few weeks ago but was only available to a few users, is now available for all members. The next time you log in, you’ll likely see a little notification telling you about chat. Thereafter, you might have to hunt for the chat application. It appears as a tiny strip on the bottom right of your Web browser window and looks like this:
Clicking on “Online friends” brings up a list of people you know on Facebook who are online. It’s very similar to Gmail’s chat and also gives you the option of making your chat into its own floating window.
The other thing exciting this week on Facebook (perhaps only for me and a few others) is Lolz, a Facebook extension of the Internet “lolcats” phenomenon. It was co-created by our friends at ICanHasCheezburger.com, too.
Using the application, you can upload photos (or select from a few pre-screened ones) and insert your own funny in-photo captions. You can also re-caption other people’s images, browse the funniest ones and share them with friends.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t really proud of one of my first efforts:
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By Omar Gallaga
April 23, 2008 10:42 PM | Link to this
There are several lolcats applications on Facebook. This one is new. The previous ones weren't officially developed by the owners of icanhascheezburger.
By Amanda
April 23, 2008 7:33 PM | Link to this
Honestly, the LOLcats application has been on there for about a year now. My roommate got it right when it came out because she's a huge fan.
The new chat is freaky and slows down the loading of the facebook homepage a lot. I guess they'll work out the kinks.