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• #Facebook contact bar missing free

So, let’s say you have a chat with a friend and then wish to delete that conversation. The new Messages product is fully integrated with your email, chat and texting (if you use it). Delete Chat history:Īt some point in the past few months, since Facebook has been rolling out the new Messages (email) product, you may have been taken aback to find a conversation history from a long time ago suddenly show up when emailing a friend.

You may want to hide the Chat Sidebar sometimes – that’s easy: click the cog icon > click “Hide Sidebar.” 6. (Sidenote: many people get concerned over the word “hack.” Yes, if your account gets hacked by a hacker that’s a bad thing! But hack can also mean a shortcut, a workaround). Once you make your friend “circles” via the Circle Hack app, go back to /friends to edit as needed. (The Circle Hack app is not affiliated with Facebook.)Ĭircle Hack app for Facebook Friend Lists Circle Hack is a really easy way to segment your Facebook friends – you don’t have to put everyone in a list, maybe just specific friends then leave others as they are. Or, try the nifty Circle Hack app, created to emulate the Google+ circles! See screenshot below (click to enlarge). There are many ways to get back to your list of Friend Lists one of the easiest ways is to remember the URL is simply /friends. Select/deselect any Friend Lists as you wish.ĭon’t have Friend Lists set up yet? Just go here and click the “Create A List” button.Click the menu in the upper left of the popup window choose from “Make me unavailable to:” OR “Only make me available to:”.Click the cog icon in the lower right corner.First, you’ll need to have Friend Lists set up (see #4 below). Other friends will simply see you as offline. You can easily display the fact you’re online and available to chat with only certain friends. Limit your availability to certain friends: To go back online at any time and show your friends your available to chat, click the “Chat (Offline)” bar in the lower right:ģ. 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.”

#Facebook contact bar missing free

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.