Facebook on Wednesday launched a video calling feature with a difference -- where users can chat with their Facebook friends with a single click.
It has tied up with Skype for the video calling facility. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg also launched two other features -- group chat and a new chat sidebar.
The group chat function will allow users to chat within Facebook Groups. This feature is likely to give a big boost to people who use groups, to discuss and plan together. The new chat sidebar will be bigger and will effectively use the space in bigger computer monitors.
The video chat feature comes at at time when Google has launched Google+ to rival Facebook. Google+ also has a video chat facility called Hangout.
During the launch, Mr Zuckerberg emphasised on the ‘ease’ factor of the video chat feature in Facebook, where one has to click and call a friend for video chat. The friend can respond to it by just clicking the answer button in the window that would pop up.
Mr Zuckerberg said the app would automatically download any software that would be required. Apart from this, there would be no need to download separate software.