If you have a built-in camera in your computer or a webcam, you can Video Chat on Facebook. They can see and hear you and vice-versa. There are two different ways you can open Video Chat.
Before this happens, you will need to have done a one-time download of the CHAT. Once you click on CALL, if your Friend has not done so with someone else, he/she will receive a message to download software. See the end of this post for pictures of what that process will look like.
In order to initiate the Video Chat, the person with whom you want to chat must have their Facebook page open. Then when you are on any of your pages go to the bottom of the page. On the lower right you’ll see CHAT.
Click on CHAT. A partial list of your Friends will open. Anyone who has a green dot to the right of their name is presumably on Facebook at the time you are looking at the list. Of course it is possible that they have walked away from their computer leaving the page open. Continue reading