Anyway, something that's come to my attention lately is the amount of groups on Facebook that claim that there's a new 'Facebook Chat'. Most of these groups are called something like, "How to activate the new Facebook Chat! Join now!" What people fail to realise, however, is that these groups are only there because they want bucket loads of members. You'll notice that a lot of these groups don't have any posts on their wall - I wonder why.
What's even funnier is that people don't realise that, to begin with, Facebook would have said if they updated their chat. Another thing is that they would make it available to everyone, not just people who add their friends. Also, the so-called 'new Facebook chat' things that the groups use as their display pictures are actually screenshots of Mac applications superimposed over the top of the normal Facebook. On one of them they're actually cheeky enough to use iChat! On another they use the third party application Adium.
It strikes me as odd that so many people don't seem to notice that Facebook would make the new Chat feature available to everyone.
One other thing: people are even going so far as to follow the instructions the groups provide: which involves copy and pasting a piece of Java Script into the URL bar. BAD IDEA. I'm not saying that it's going to damage your computer, but putting any unknown link or code where you can't make out what it is from its URL is a bad idea. People might be redirecting you to a website which automatically starts a download of a virus or something. That may be the worst case scenario, but that's not to say that it couldn't happen.
Either way, it's still pretty funny.
Good day!
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