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Facebook for Grown-Ups
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Facebook for Grown-Ups

by Michael Miller
September 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
7h
English
Que
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Chapter 10. Chatting with Your Kids—Live

In the previous chapter we discussed one way to communicate privately with friends and family online, via Facebook’s email message system. Communicating via email can be slow, however, especially if the person you’re writing to doesn’t check her messages all that often.

If you want a more immediate means of communication, check out Facebook’s live chat feature. This lets you communicate in real time with your friends, using one-to-one text messages. Like email messages, these are totally private communications; no one but you and the person you’re talking to can read them.

What’s Chat—and Who Uses It?

Okay, so here’s the deal. What Facebook calls “chat,” everybody else in the world calls instant messaging ...

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