It is rather keeping each online user aware of the online-idle-offline states of their friends, so that conversations can begin. This is wildly inefficient to the point of being untenable, given that the average number of friends per user is measured in the hundreds, and the number of concurrent users during peak site usage is on the order of several millions.
Surfacing connected users' idleness greatly enhances the chat user experience but further compounds the problem of keeping presence information up-to-date.
I've not tried it, but it might be worth investigating a chat client and linking it to Facebook. From the FAQs , it looks like it might be possible to change status for certain friend lists.
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Force an idle chat status in Facebook while still working in it and without going offline Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 4 months ago. Active 10 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 14k times. How do I to do that? If he returns to the site before closing his browser, he will see your message and may reply so long as you are still online as well. Lara Webster has been writing professionally since What Are "Idle" Friends on Facebook?
By Lara Webster. Chat Feature "Idle" status refers only to friends in regard to the social networking site's chat feature. Time Frame Friends are considered idle on Facebook when they have been completely inactive on the site for 10 minutes or longer. Symbols An idle friend is represented by a light gray half moon next to her name in your list of friends in chat.
Receiving Messages While an idle Facebook friend is not actively on the site, because she is still online, your messages will pop up on his computer screen. Melly Parker has been writing since , focusing on health, business, technology and home improvement. She has also worked as a teacher and a bioassay laboratory technician. Parker now serves as a marketing specialist at one of the largest mobile app developers in the world.
She holds a Master of Science in English. Home Social Media. Facebook Chat Facebook chat, accessible from the lower right sidebar, connects you to your friends in real time. Chat Idle Facebook used to display a blue half-moon symbol to let users know that a person on the contact list was logged into chat but away from Facebook.
Contact List The contact list on Facebook is split into two parts. Seen One way a person can tell whether or not a friend is idle on Facebook is the Seen feature.
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