Facebook has built a new feature codenamed Host Chat that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I've contacted ...

Facebook held a special media event on Wednesday to introduce "awesome" new Facebook features. It turns out the company unveiled improvements to Facebook Chat, including a new group chatting ...

Facebook chat is the social networking site's instant message feature that enables friends to communicate with each other in real time. After your chat conversation is finished, Facebook ...

Facebook Chat has evolved to enable more than simple one-to-one chatting. You can now talk to all members of a group using the Group Chat feature, for example. You can also invite multiple friends ...

Chat Heads let users read their messages on the Facebook app without leaving the Newsfeed or whatever else they were looking at, pulling up each individual message with a little bubble with the ...

One of the centerpieces of Facebook’s new interface are “chat heads,” Facebook’s vision for the way that we should do messaging. Sounds fun! But what are they, exactly? And will they ...

So far, Facebook Chat is indeed rolling out slowly. Of my 130-odd friends, only 5 show up Chat-ready, but more seem to be appearing as the hours tick by. At first, the limited list makes for an ...

Last week, the fine Facebook folk let us know (via the Facebook Help Center) that you can now sign in to Facebook's chat service using iChat. Of course, the free Adium client has directly ...

Facebook’s video chat could be a killer app, but only if the social networking giant works out the kinks.

Facebook is reportedly building a chat room function to further entrench the social media site into our digital lives.

Calling all journalism students: Join a Facebook chat with chief correspondent for arts and culture Jeffrey Brown Journalism students will have the opportunity to learn from PBS NewsHour's chief ...