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About a week or so ago, Facebook’s “Online Now” page had a little yellow tag that said the page would be moving to the chat area. With this change, users can now see who’s online from any page while on the site. There’s one catch, though: you have to be logged into chat. I have seen many a post of discontent about the chat feature of Facebook, as well as discontent about the “Online Now” section moving to the chat area. The main issue with this incorporation is that it forces you to activate Facebook Chat. I don’t know if they did this to get us to turn it on or not, but it’s still a bit iffy. I personally don’t mind turning it on, but there are quite a few people that will mind. The change is good overall, but what it needs is to be independent of the chat feature. If you’re offline from chat, you should still be able to see who’s online. Also, I can’t get to the Facebook pages of people who are online by clicking on their name anymore; it opens a chat window instead. I like that it’s on every page now, though.

I overall appreciate the change but it can be a bit better.

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