Download Facebook Official Messenger [Android and IOS]

Earlier,You have to rely on third party applications but now Facebook has launched its official messenger for Android and IOS operating systems.It is very similar to Blackberry Messenger.It is a free application and can be downloaded from Android Market or App Store.Facebook Messenger allows you to chat with your friends as well access the messages.

You can also see facebook notifications (or even pause them so that you cant get disturbed while chatting),Do group messaging,share your location with messages,attach Photos and much more.Facebook messenger also allows you to send messages to those friends who are not in facebook but are in your phone contact list.They will receive your message via SMS from some random number thus it also act as a free SMS application for phone.

How to share Location Using Facebook Messenger? 

You can share your location by click on the blue arrow in the text box of the application.It will automatically tag your location while sending message.

Facebook is also expected to launch Video chat application as they have already launched Video calling feature for desktop users.

Download Facebook Messenger for Android
Download Facebook Messenger for iOS 

All Facebook Smiley Codes

We all use facebook but still alot of us are unware of how to use smileys in chat.Some of us just think how the other person have sent a smiley.Well it is very simple to send smileys in facebook chat.You have to just enter a code and it will automatically convert into a smiley.I am providing here a complete list of smiley codes that can be used on facebook.Even if you already use or know some of the codes even then you will find this list very useful becuase you will find a lot of new codes

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Facebook Launched Video Chat With Skype Partnership

Finally, Facebook launched video Chat feature.It has partnered with skype for video chat.Facebook has started to feel the heat of competition as Google+ which was launched a week earlier has already features like Group Video chat and now facebook is trying to play the catch up game.

How to use Facebook Video Chat?

Before you start using facebook Video Chat you will need to install the video chat setup

• Go To Facebook Video Chat Setup page
• Click on Get Started button
• Now,It will Download the setup for video chat.
• After the download is complete click on the setup to install the video chat feature.
• Once the installation is complete a video calling button will start appearing in your chat window.(see pic below)

 Click on the video calling icon to start video chatting with you friend.

How to Download Facebook Videos

Facebook started supporting video sharing and posting in 2007. Millions of Facebook users and music bands have taken well to sharing videos on their profiles.Facebook now supports high definition playback and longer videos. There are two types of Facebook videos, the ones posted by other users or friends, videos embedded into messages and wall posts.

 

There is no native support to download the videos on Facebook on to your computer, nevertheless you can download them with a few tricks and tweaks that are browser specific. Many third party extensions, scripts and software allow you to download and watch the videos posted on Facebook. Let us look into some of the ways to download Facebook videos.

 Downloading Facebook Videos Using Browser Tweaks

 Mozilla Firefox

 You can use a Mozilla Firefox add-on to download a Facebook video. Follow these step by step instructions to download the file to your computer: 

  

1.   Go to the Video DownloadHelper Firefox add-on page
2. Click on Download Now
3.  Install the add-on for Firefox
4. Restart your browser 
5.  Go to the Facebook video you would like to download and click on the red arrow as shown in the picture below
6.  You have successfully downloaded the video to your computer

 Google Chrome

 The videos that you play on Facebook are saved in Google Chrome’s cache. You can access the cache and download the video on to your computer. Follow these step by step  to download the video

1.  Go to ChromeCacheView download page
2.  Download and install the latest version of that software
3.  Open the ChromeCacheView software once you have viewed a video on Facebook
4.  Save the selected videos on to your computer as shown in the picture above
5.  You have successfully downloaded the video to your computer  

 The other methods to download a Facebook video using user scripts and redirection to other third party websites are risky. The above mentioned methods are browser tweaks to download the videos.