My chat doesn't work?

Is it just facebook or your internet connection ??..
The Facebook Chat feature allows you to send and receive messages in real time with friends who are online.
Your chat box reveals a list of available friends you can chat with by clicking their names.
For those times when you're not up for chatting, you can choose from several different privacy options, including disconnecting Facebook Chat.
You can opt to disconnect it completely, or just partially allowing chat availability for certain people and not others.
You can reconnect in a few quick steps.
Facebook Chat Availability

Your Facebook Chat availability determines how you appear in your friends' chat lists.
When you're logged in to your Facebook account, your name appears in the chat sidebars of any friends who are currently logged in.
When you set your chat preference to available, a green box appears next to your name.
When you're available, but idle, a grey moon appears next to your name.
When you're unavailable, your name appears without an icon.

Adjusting Chat Availability
Adjust your chat availability to control the visibility of your name in friends' chat lists.
Sign in to your Facebook account and click the "Chat" box in the lower right corner of any page to open your chat list.
Click the "Options" icon in the upper right corner of the box.
Click "Go Offline" to disconnect your chat availability.
If you're using the Facebook Chat sidebar, click the "Options" icon in the upper right corner of the box. Click the "Chat" box to open the sidebar if it isn't showing up on your home page.
Click the "Available to Chat" option to delete the check mark, making yourself invisible and unavailable to chat. Click the "Limit Availability" option and use the resulting pop-up to choose which friend lists you wish to remain visible to. This allows you to chat with some friends without others knowing you're logged on.
Disconnected Facebook Chat
Once you disconnect Facebook Chat or limit your chat availability, your online presence will be invisible to other users.
You can still browse the Facebook site as you would normally.
The appearance of your chat list won't be altered by your availability; you'll still be able to see which of your friends are online and available to chat.
That is, as long as their chat availability isn't hidden or disconnected.

Your Chat Messages

If a friend attempts to message while your Facebook Chat is disconnected, the message will be delivered to your Facebook inbox.
You'll receive an on-site notification, as well as text or email notifications if you're set up for that, alerting you that you have a new message in your inbox.
Click the "Message" icon that appears in the upper left corner of any page upon signing in to your Facebook account.
Any new messages will appear in the drop-down list. Click the "See All Messages" link at the bottom of the box to access your inbox and respond to any messages.

http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=chat

The chat feature is located on the bottom right hand of the screen in a small silver box. Click this and set yourself to online to see a list of friends who are also online and available for chat. Friends who are not online will not appear on the box. Click one of your friends to open up a chat session with that friend. Hope this helps!

try this..
1. open your facebook chat
2. click on the friend list located on the top part of the facebook chat right before the option
3.after you click the friend list you'll see a box where it says type a list name.. type anything on it and the press enter
4. after you press enter the name you type will appear on the facebook chat's main box and you'll see a green circle right after it. and you'll also see a grey circle right after the OTHER FRIENDS..
5. click on the grey circle right next to the other friends and all of you online friends will show up.
6. pm a friend to test if it's workin...

hi, Sounds like a Scripting error. I'm giving you a Help Link to follow:
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?y=PROD_MSNG&page=content&id=SLN40&impressions=false&actp=RECENT

Also make sure you have the latest Flash player and Java installed.
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

After Updating, check that you do not have Old Versions of Flash Player, Shock Wave player and Java ...this causes problems.
click --- Start/Control Panel/ Programs
?Delete the Old Versions First................

Good Luck to You

Hi there,

The chat option comes up in a small box in the right hand bottom corner, click on the box and it should open up a list of your online friends. Simply click on the name you want to chat to and you get another box where you can have a live conversation. You also have options in there to appear as offline so you cant get chat requests while you are busy doing something else and create chat lists where you can have multiple friends in a conversation.

Hope this helps and thanks for using fixya.

John

Hi there

You will see a box by the bottom right corner of your facebook page with the word "chat",

Click on the box and a list of your friends online will come up.If the friend you want to chat with is online just click on the name and a dialog box will appear on your screen

Type in a message and press enter on your keyboard and the message will be sent and your friend will see the message and you are good to start chatting

There should be a "Chat and Mobile Text" box on the left pane of your yahoo email. Just click the dropdown button and click to choose "Available". The list of available friends online will then be shown. Just click the Online Contacts. You will see the list of online friends and double clicking their name will open a chatbox on your right.

Hi,

You can find your online friend at right down corner of your home page. A small pop up is appeared at right side (Its showing "chat" and no. of online friends). You'll have click on this chat pop up, you can see all your online friends.

Regards

Ashly

On the bottom right of the screen you will see the number of people online. Click on it, click on a name and a chat window will appear. That chat window will be kept next to the number of friends online tab at the bottom right. As you open more chat windows, they will appear at the bottom right, building-up towards the bottom left.

If someone sends you a message, a tab will appear flashing at the bottom

chat box does not work when i use chating then yellow sign show it