You’ll know when a friend is available to chat depending on the icon next to their name: To chat with any friend in the new sidebar, click on their name and the chat window opens up. If you don’t see the sidebar, just click Chat in the bottom right corner of your screen, which shows the same list of friends you’ll find in your sidebar.” Chat with friendsįacebook states, “The sidebar is sensitive to the amount of free space you have on your screen, so it only appears if there’s enough room for it. There are now several changes to the way you use Facebook chat and edit your settings: 1. (And, as for the new Facebook video chat? Or Google+ Hangouts? Maybe once in a blue moon when I happen to be camera ready anyway!) I appreciate there are great benefits to being able to live chat anytime, but for me I like to limit my instant availability and stay focused. I prefer Skype chat and limit myself there to my own team and a small group of core contacts. I’m not a big chatter on Facebook myself. The list shows both friends who are available to chat and friends who aren’t. Since it updates dynamically, you can’t manually add friends to the list. The list of friends in your sidebar is based on who you’ve interacted with most frequently or recently on Facebook. Which friends appear in the sidebar? Can I add specific friends? I wondered if the list is based on a social relevancy algorithm and shows those friends whose content I like or comment upon most often. I rarely use the Facebook chat feature, so I thought perhaps the select list of friends was ones I email most often, but it’s not. (A few friends and I are finding that the relevancy of the friends in this display is not that accurate!) The list of friends displayed in this sidebar is supposed to be the friends you interact with most. You may have noticed the new Facebook Chat Sidebar when you logged in to Facebook recently.
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