Facebook: Change the chat view
Facebook, as one of the most popular and well-known social networks worldwide, offers its users a wide variety of ways to get in touch with their friends. One of these options is to use the chat function. However, very few people know that you can also change the chat view on Facebook.
Below is a step-by-step guide on how to use the Chat-View at Facebook can change. However, you can only change the chat view on your computer or laptop and not on your smartphone.
The chat functions on Facebook
- The standard setting for chat on Facebook is such that you will find a list of possible chat friends on the right-hand side of the website.
- The ones marked with a green dot friends are online, this means you can chat with these friends directly.
- To start a chat, all you have to do is click with the mouse on the name of the friend you want to chat with and the chat window will automatically open next to the friends list.
- You can also chat with several friends at the same time. All you have to do is click again on the name marked with a green dot and another chat window will open on your screen.
- To close the chat window, all you have to do is click on the "x" at the top right edge of the chat window.
- If a friend is not online, i.e. not marked with a green dot, but still in the Chatlist pops up, you can send a private message to this friend by simply clicking on the name send.
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Change the chat view
Changing the chat view in your FacebookAccount is very simple and can be carried out or changed again at any time.
- First log into the Facebook website. To do this, you must enter your personal information in the white fields provided e-mail-Enter the address and your password.
- At the lower right edge of the screen you will find a small gray symbol that resembles a door and an arrow. If you click on this icon with your mouse, the chat view will automatically change.
- The changed chat view now means that the chat list with all friends is displayed on the left edge of the screen. Now the names of the friends are no longer listed, but the profile pictures are displayed. To chat you just have to click on the picture of the friend you want and the chat window will open again automatically.
- If you now want to go back to the standard view. You have to click the gray icon next to the friend search field, above the chat list.
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