Facebook Chat is Stupid

[Kolby Jack]

Nothing wrong with the chat.
You just have stupid friends.

uh yeah i know right hes wailing on the chat but its the person talking thats clearly annoying

solution, pick better "friends"

This. Or if you honestly want them to shut up, just tell them to shut up. As long as you don't know them in real life, who gives a crap how they feel?

 

[Mr. Bojangles]

It's nothing to do with the chat, it's your friends. Or at, least your Facebook friends.

 

[Pat8u]

tell me about it I was playing facebook games when some person who I really would like to forget about talks to me about if I still play the playstation (primary school Memorys incoming *patrick runs away and hides but they are catching up and hes hit by them*)

Parents are also annoying on facebook

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Well someone's grumpy today aren't they?

If bad grammar, bed spelling and abuse of the caps lock bother you so much you could always just, y'know, not use the chat, or don't have those people as friends, or just be honest with them that it bothers you. As annoying as that person must be, you going and bitching about them behind their back to a group of total strangers makes you out to be a bit of a condescending douche, which in my book is worse than dumb and annoying.

 

[commodore96]

If you have a smart phone say you were on that, therefore you can tell them you didn't see it.

 

[ZRendZ]

Congratulations you share an opinion that about 90% of the internet has.
As for the way people talk this isn't facebooks fault, just the retards who think the internet is an excuse for poor spelling. It does really irritate me when people lengthen wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooords like thissssssssssss. what makes it worse is when the word is shortened lyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyykkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk that. usually when people talk like that i either say "Are you texting or something?" or "Would you write like that in an exam?"
-shrugs- I don't really use social networking, unless Tumblr counts.

 

[Jodah]

Step one : Get annoying message
Step two : Pretend you are afk
Step three : ???
Step four : Profit!

 

[Ace of Spades]

I have had meaningful conversations on facebook chat, but that's more to do with the people rather than the chat system itself.

 

[Icehearted]

Social networking is all pretty awful to me. Forums are fine, we're here for a common interest, but Facebook and twitter, crap like that. I've never had any interest in it, or the kinds of people that use it regularly.

 

[alandavidson]

I think you need better friends.

 

[Weslebear]

That's just the cretins that happen to be online at all times no matter what, it's like the have a fucking rota.

I haven't appeared online on FB chat in 2 years.

 

[AgentBJ09]

I don't have Facebook, but I will say that LolBot usually displays the best gags of the site anyway, so I don't have to waste my time making an account to see them.

Failbook does the same kind of thing, and it shows a lot of the worst of Facebook, which are even more reasons why I refuse to open an account.

 

[Shiny Rabbit]

I think the only problems with Facebook chat are the connections constantly dropping (and it being generally terrible).

I have meaningful chats with my girlfriend on there all the time.

 

[omega 616]

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appear offline? Be firm and tell them to shut up or just not talk back?

I have had serious talks and such, it just depends on what friends you have. If you have a lot of Californian girls then I assume your chat would look like that, if you talk to more serious people you will get better conversations.

 

[Smerf]

once google plus is out of the beta (or whatever it is in) im gonna get off facebook for good

 

[RollForInitiative]

Ever think that the problem might be the people on your Facebook friend list? Sure as Hell sounds like it.

 

[LuckyClover95]

I've had some pretty good convo's on Facebook chat, I don't really talk to people who I'm gonna have a pointless conversation with

 

[FiveSpeedf150]

Facebook chat (and facebook in general) is a tool for keeping you in touch with people who, in retrospect, you'd usually rather not keep in touch with.

However, if you're not on Facebook you're getting laid less than you could be... and for that reason I stick around.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Facebook posts tend to be pretty decent/fun in my circle of friends (probably because I only add people I give a damn about IRL).

The chat, though, is just broken. Skype, hell, even IRC is better!

 

[Tanakh]

Why the fuck cant everyone just use some GOOD instant messenger?

Lolz. Guess you never heard about Pidgin.