{"id":55852,"date":"2013-11-19T22:10:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T20:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=55852"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:01:27","slug":"facebooks-chat-status-feature-goes-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebooks-chat-status-feature-goes-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s chat status feature goes global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a title=\"Facebook news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> began rolling out a new feature on its website to indicate whether a friend is available to chat on the web or on a mobile device. This feature has been implemented globally. Here&#8217;s what it looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55853\" title=\"Facebook chat feature\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/FB-chat-feature.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook chat feature\" width=\"202\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/FB-chat-feature.jpg 202w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/FB-chat-feature-145x256.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By letting users know if their friend is on the web or on mobile, it manages expectations about what type of response you get. For example, if your friend is on mobile, he or she will probably send short messages since typing on mobile isn&#8217;t as quick as typing on the web.<\/p>\n<p>This feature brings Facebook chat in line with Google&#8217;s <a title=\"Google Hangouts news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/hangouts\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hangouts<\/a>, which displays which device a user is on using an icon..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download Facebook Messenger: <a title=\"Download Facebook Messenger for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook-messenger.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> | <a title=\"Download Facebook Messenger for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook-messenger.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"TechCrunch\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/11\/19\/that-was-fast-facebooks-webmobile-chat-feature-is-now-getting-rolled-out-globally\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/candy-crush-saga-downloaded-over-half-a-billion-times\">Candy Crush Saga downloaded over half a billion times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/updated-facebook-messenger-rolling-out-to-everyone\">Updated Facebook Messenger rolling out to everyone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-for-windows-8-1-gets-notification-settings\">Facebook for Windows 8.1 gets notification settings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Facebook began rolling out a new feature on its website to indicate whether a friend is available to chat on the web or on a mobile device. This feature has been implemented globally. Here&#8217;s what it looks like: By letting users know if their friend is on the web or on mobile, it manages &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebooks-chat-status-feature-goes-global\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook&#8217;s chat status feature goes global&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-55852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331790,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852\/revisions\/331790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55852"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=55852"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=55852"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=55852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}