Facebook Chat, already unrolled in selected Universities in America, is being unrolled over the next few weeks.

I think that while it will seem ‘neat’ at first, I believe some users are going to migrate to this IM in the same way they migrate messaging from external email to Facebook messaging (despite the horrendous FB messaging interface). It’s convenient, and when a person is online at FB IM, you know they are actually sitting there on their profile, versus other IM applications which are ‘online’ all the time.

Not to mention, you’re one click away from a ton of content relating to the person. This is only a cursory examination, and I will write more soon, but I do feel that this IM service will quickly begin to increase daily FB usage.

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