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Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Greg Tracy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:34:30 -0000

Wisconsin got it on Sunday as well...

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

mojaam — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:22:34 -0000

It's seems unnecessary to me. Just like Flickr adding video.

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Rosario Doriott — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:22:36 -0000

Yale was also included. Maybe they're mimicking the original Facebook --open only to Ivy League and similar? For a short time.

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Guest — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:41:39 -0000

Delaware got it today. It looks terrible across the bottom and is more annoying than anything else. I wish it would go away.

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:57:07 -0000

@boodalicious that's a very good question ... I could give you the real answer or just tell you that I was too elite for the elitists ... i prefer to keep it at that ;)

Is your name really boodalicious btw?

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

boodalicious — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:38:55 -0000

Nick - you didn't go to Harvard or one of those "Elitist" schools? How come?

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Eric Dewhirst — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:22:24 -0000

@Craig - I totally agree - test to friendly first adopters and then fix - then roll out to the masses.

I am intrigued to figure out what revenue model they might try to put in with this chat feature. Perhaps sponsored chat windows? Integration with their flyer program? Who knows - should be interesting.

Cheers - Eric

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Raymond Rouf — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:18:44 -0000

That Crimson article was lame. They quoted people who don't even use chat programs.

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Dave Ambrose — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:31:51 -0000

Middlebury was also in that list.

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Jeffrey — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:48:20 -0000

"Elitist" is kind of harsh. They're running a business, not a national park. For big new products like chat, I'd much rather they rabbit-test the stuff on unsuspecting college students before unleashing it on the site at large.

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Anon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:59:18 -0000

I don't think it'll be as successful as Gmail chat.

It feels strange to leave it on hours at a time, as you would with Gmail chat. It feels like you're somehow sending the message to your friends that you've got nothing better to do with your time then to sit around on Facebook all day.

I've always viewed Facebook as a guilty pleasure that everyone does. However, I don't feel comfortable advertising how much a participate in this guilty pleasure to everyone, or even increasing the amount of time spent on it.

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:47:38 -0000

@Craig , definitely understandable ...

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Craig Bovis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:27:02 -0000

I should think it was only rolled out to a select number of networks to test it's affect on the server load.

Its a feature that is going to be used a hell of a lot as soon as it is released so they need to gauge what sort of resources its going to need.

I guess they figured releasing to the original universities was a nice way of selecting who got first access in this test environment.

Re: Facebook’s Elitist Chat Launch

Mike Belgrove — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:15:33 -0000

I haven't seen it and I'm part of the WVU, US Army and Pittsburgh networks.