The Jeff Pulver Blog: Facebook as a platform for Synchronous communications

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May 03, 2008

Facebook as a platform for Synchronous communications

Since the launch of Facebook, I looked to Facebook primarily as an asynchronous communications platform. A platform where I could update my status, share it with friends and have that affect the way I communicate with them and the way they communicate with me. During the past year, Facebook has become the platform that I use as my primary communications channel.

With the introduction of Facebook Chat, Facebook is also a synchronous communications platform which represents a subtle shift in how I and I am sure others will be approaching Facebook in the future.

Since the introduction of Facebook Chat, depending upon the time of day and day of the week, somewhere between 3 to 7 percent (150 to 350+) of my friends are online. I have enjoyed the spontaneous nature of chat and have found it to be another great touch point and another great way to stay in contact with friends across multiple time zones. What I find intriguing is that I continue to have chat conversations with people who I otherwise don’t message with on a regular basis. I have also had several instances of a conversation which started on twitter moving to Facebook Chat.

With Facebook shifting from a platform for asynchronous communications to a platform that supports both synchronous and a synchronous communications, this is becoming a place much closer to the space I expected Facebook to one day occupy. It will be real interesting to watch as Facebook opens up their API to support asynchronous communications and the types of applications which are developed as a result of it.

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I'm not on Facebook, but I suspect that the most resilint tools will be those that can operate synchronously AND asynchronously. For example, you can engage in Twitter in real time, or you can check Twitter once a day and respond to the last day's stuff.

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Facebook as a platform for Synchronous communications

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