Chapter 3
Chatting with Messages and FaceTime
IN THIS CHAPTER
Setting up an account
Chatting about other chat applications
Adding contacts
Chatting via text, audio, and video
Saving chats
Calling other Apple devices with FaceTime
The idea behind instant messaging (IM) is that you communicate with someone over the Internet by using text, audio, or video.
You can swap messages with your friends, chat in real time across the planet, and even see each other through live video windows while you speak. The application you use to chat on the Mac is called Messages, and it offers another way for you to communicate with almost anyone in the world, using an Internet connection.
By using your Mac’s Messages app, you can exchange basic text chat messages with others instantly. And Messages also makes live video and audio chats and conferences, and file sharing, practically as easy as chatting ...
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