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Facebook New Chat SideBar

Facebook Launched new Facebook Chat Sidebar in replacement to previous Chat Box system.Some of the Facebook users may have got this upgrade
    from the Facebook and others will get this in coming few days.Below is the screen shot of the new Facebook ChatSidebar. The changes made by Facebook during this upgrade are:   
    Facebook New Chat SideBar
  • Contacts are shown on basis of their chat message activity with you.
  • Names of Offline friends and Online friends(Green Dot is shown along with their name) are shown in combined list of chat contacts.
  • There is search box provided below to search your friends/contacts(offline or online).
  • The online friends matrix shown on the left side had been also removed.
  • A good thing about this upgrade is that users can directly send message to offline friends by clicking on their name from Chat sidebar rather than going to Messages from left sidebar

Some points on which Facebook should rethink on its new Facebook Chat Sidebar are:
  • Scrolling of chat list is not possible ,you have to make a search query to find the friend.
  • At first look it creates confusion in the mind of the user , who is online and who is offline.
  • The Facebook Chat SideBar has an limit(20) to show friends from the Facebook friend list. So when the number of online friend cross this limit ,then you have to make a search query to find that online friend as there is no scroll there in Facebook chat sidebar
  • When you click on any friend then the chat box appears on screen covers the search box provided in it,hence blocks the searching options- This bug has been now fixed by the Facebook.
  • The settings button on it is not active till now.

If you find this new Facebook new chat Sidebar tough to operate then there is a simple solution for you.
Login to your Facebook account And then click on this link http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php

This will open the Facebook Pop-out chat , which is quite simple and effective for chatting and will make your chatting experience better.

Hope you liked the post and would like to share your views by dropping comments below.


Update: The Settings Button for this  Facebook New Chat SideBar is working perfectly now.
               Now From the Facebook Chat Settings Button you also Limit your availability i.e you can select the people to whom you want to appear online.

If you want to disable the Facebook New Chat sidebar Click Here.

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How to Go Offline in Facebook new chat sidebar
Facebook New Live Pulse Feed Bar
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18 comments:

  1. KJJune 22, 2011 at 4:01 PM

    THANK YOU! Thank you for the link to get to the pop out chat. Up until now I've not been able to turn it off.

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  2. phayzedoutJune 26, 2011 at 9:32 PM

    The chat side bar could be a good thing if it worked properly, not being able to scroll through the list, not being able to change whether you are online or not and once you click some body to talk to the chat window blocking the search function are all things that need to be sorted out before a final decision can be made. I mean once you can actually access the options and close or open the sidebar, scroll through the friends list and not block the search function it will actually be quite a decent addition IMO.

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  3. OxenbridgeJune 28, 2011 at 9:37 AM

    This probably is the biggest Facebook fail ever. My chat basically has been unusable for a few weeks... I wonder how it ever happened to be released prior to being ready, looks like a pre alpha version.

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  4. DanielJuly 14, 2011 at 5:51 AM

    tell us how we can go to the previous chat bar we had...i m sure there are many ppl like their previous one...and u can't force ppl to use this new one...u guys should definitly keep an option to roll back to the older version..and better be fast,coz many ppl are already leaving facebook to google+,..this new chat system is the main cause,,better be hurry!!!!!!!

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  5. Jasmeet SinghJuly 14, 2011 at 10:00 AM

    @Daniel
    If you like the previous look of Facebook's chat interface, you can switch to pop-out chat or you can also choose to Hide sidebar(Facebook Chat settings button -> Hide sidebar) and start chatting with your friends by selecting them from the friend matrix shown on left side(only the online members would be shown there unlike Facebook chat sidebar).
    Facebook made this change to have faster messaging to both online and offline friends..

    Thanks for commenting and sharing your views . :)

    To hide sidebar you can take help from this link :http://jasmeetishere.blogspot.com/2011/06/facebook-offline-new-chat-sidebar.html

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  6. person287July 21, 2011 at 11:06 AM

    There's a fix if you don't like the new sidebar and want to get it back like it was before (Isn't the PopUp Chat Way)that I've posted about here at http://mediamonstrosity.com/2011/07/19/get-old-facebook-chat-back/ (Didn't make it by the way). It's a userscript so it's not the most convenient solution but it works in most browsers, and it's very easy to install in Chrome. I wish they would change it back because I know pretty much nobody that actually likes it this way.

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  7. UnknownJuly 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM

    chrome extension to get the old facebook chatbar back! http://bit.ly/mPIGFL

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  8. Marcia FremontSeptember 5, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    Jasmeet...i do not have a search bar at the bottom of the sidebar. Or obviously a gear to hide the sidebar. I finally got used to the names there because after a while the ones i always chat with were there. Today all my friends i regularly chat with disappeared from the sidebar and were replaced with names of people i never chat with at all. Any ideas? I have sent 3 trouble tickets to FB and asked on numerous chat rooms how to fix this and no one responds. help !

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  9. Jasmeet SinghSeptember 7, 2011 at 7:53 AM

    @ Marcia , I think this bug might be temporary due to Facebook updation in their database , Facebook generally experiments new feature for a set of few people, and you might have become the part of it . So there might be a reset in you friend list. Hope Facebook will fix it soon.

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  10. Marcia FremontOctober 23, 2011 at 9:43 PM

    No search bar or gear yet. Now on Chrome, only the friends who are online show up making it identical to the pictures on the left screen who are online. I actually liked having my regulars appear in the right hand sidebar (like still do in IE) and i could pull up someone there to send a message right from chat. Now I have to go back up to messages and go through that whole rigmarole. I wouldn't' use this chat except lots of people on FB who are not elsewhere.. :(

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  11. Marcia FremontOctober 24, 2011 at 1:17 PM

    omg...all of a sudden i have a search bar...and my regulars back on sidebar..no gear..but that is ok..Maybe FB watches your blog !!! Let's hope it stays...and they don't use my page as a "test" anymore !!

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  12. Marcia FremontOctober 24, 2011 at 1:19 PM

    oops gone already :( i spoke too soon.

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  13. Marcia FremontOctober 29, 2011 at 3:09 AM

    Jasmeet, Assuming I am on a set of people who are "picked" for experimenting with different features, do you know of any way I can get off such a list??? To be honest, every week, every day, sometimes several times a day, my FB page changes how it works. Sometimes there are post snippets in the upper right, sometimes not, sometimes there is one, but it won't let me scroll down to any older posts. (i like the feature and to scroll down - to quickly go over my friends recent activities when i sign in). My chat features change constantly all day long..both sidebars. What I see on my page..etc etc . It is making me nuts. Any advice? Or do you think I have a FB gremlin? :)

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  14. Jasmeet SinghOctober 29, 2011 at 5:58 AM

    Marcia, according to my experience , if you are Facebook app developer then there are more chances to get picked up for experiments . Let me know if you are having an app running on Facebook platform

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  15. Marcia FremontOctober 29, 2011 at 7:24 AM

    Jasmeet, no i am not an app developer, and certainly don't have one running on the FB platform. (i'm not even much of an app USER - just the generic FB ones like photo & message etc). thanks though :)

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  16. Marcia FremontNovember 14, 2011 at 3:27 PM

    Jasmeet i am almost hesitant to say something but i have had a search bar on side chat for over a week maybe 10 days, and my home page has remained consistent in the same amount of time..that is, it stays in the same format, doesn't move/switch/rearrange all the columns and features 5 times a day like before. Are you sure FB doesn't read your blog? I'll bet they do and saw i was going bonkers with all their stuff. So, i am going to thank you !! whether you think you helped or not !! :) cheers.

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