What makes the chat feature handy is that it doesn't require you to go to another app to respond.
What about teenage chat lines looking and sounding like Hollywood Squares?
Incoming messages pop up on the top right in the form of what Facebook calls chat heads, which are bubbles that each represent a particular conversation thread and is displayed via a pop-over dialog box.
Then there was time for a quick interpreted chat about what I was doing in India and where I lived, before a sweet was pressed into my hands and holy ash dispensed to me.
Users share what they are watching, chat live with friends and other fans on second screen, and get the latest media and news from their favorite shows.
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Hendricks' sister Evelyn Burns told police it was she who dialed 911 after Hendricks called her and casually remarked during what started as a routine chat that her son had shot himself.
The BBC saw the transcript of what appeared to be her internet chat which lasted just five minutes.
What seemed like a perfectly ordinary chat between two creative leaders in film and video games suddenly took a more interesting turn.
While I certainly wanted to make her feel better, professionally, it felt awkward to have a good old-fashioned chat to find out what was wrong.
From the Me Tile people can check in to their location, post an update, set chat status, see what's new and monitor notifications across Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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In May 2003 Murren went to the annual shopping center trade show, in Las Vegas of all places, to chat with developers about what was going on around the country.
Unlike most Web sites that cater to curls, NaturallyCurly offers a comprehensive array of articles, advice, products, stylist recommendations and even chat rooms aimed at what the company estimates as "half the world's population" who wrestle with unruly locks.
It will definitely be interesting to see what a man brings to the daytime chat-show world.
Each day fans share what they are watching with friends and chat about their favorite shows.
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What if buddies could invite you to chat without catching you dialed in?
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Better yet, what about the same video stream and chat window on a mobile app such as on the Twit Network?
The decision stood, prompting Vettori to conduct what Greatbatch described as a "casual chat" with match referee Javagal Srinath during the break.
The strategy helps re-playability because it means when players chat about Dishonoured they realise what they missed and go back to try to find out more.
With OpenFeint, gamers can do things like add their friends and chat with them, see what games their friends are playing, and see how they are ranking on leaderboards.
No matter how Mami acted or what Mami said, Pura kept trying to chat Mami up.
But what, exactly, did happen to the chat rooms Parker so fondly remembers?
The problem, of course, is what's lost when that chit-chat goes.
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The programs can capture what has been typed in e-mails, chat rooms, and instant messenger services.
Read through your social media posts, go through your surveys, chat with your customers to find out what an extra mile would be to them.
But at second glance, he was actually having a video chat with his daughter and showing her what the cabin looked like and all the people who were there.
Faculty members at those schools have used Course Info to create fairly robust Web sites on which they upload content, manage discussion boards and chat rooms, post announcements and track what students view at the schools' Web sites, Pittinsky said.
She said the spyware turned up what she said was "thousands and thousands" of chat messages in which her husband took part.
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Booktype also has social capabilities, with Twitter-like functionality that allows users to monitor what their collaborators are talking about and sharing, and chat for real-time conversations.
It will allow the company to get rid of some infrastructure that was supporting chat, and to make more money on what it leaves in place.
In what is being described as the first inter-species computer chat, Koko will use her skills to answer questions from curious humans through the Internet provider America Online (AOL).
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