Funny Facebook Chat Tricks

Instant messenger is a great online application that allows you to chat with friends anywhere, anytime. You must have used Yahoo! Messenger, MSN messenger, AOL, Gmail chat, etc. These instant messengers provide you with animated smileys, audibles, and themes that make your chats more interesting. You can even share images and transfer data through the chat window. As compared to these advanced messengers, Facebook chat looks quite antique. You do not find an option of smileys and have no way to appear offline when you are online. There are a few secret Facebook chat tricks that will help you change the way you chat on Facebook. We shall have a look at these funny Facebook chat tricks in the following paragraphs that will help create interested in your conversations on Facebook.

Facebook Tricks for Chat

There are many cool Facebook chat tricks that you can try while conversing with friends on Facebook. You may have noticed some of your friends tend to send you smileys. Or maybe you wish you could appear offline till someone you are avoiding goes off the chat. Or may be you want to send emoticons over that express your mood while chatting. All this is possible and you can try these funny Facebook chat tricks with ease. I shall reveal a few secret Facebook chat tricks, you always wondered about. Do you know what does the half-moon mean on Facebook.

Appear Offline to Selected Friends
This is one cool Facebook chat trick that you should definitely try. Wish you could appear offline to your boss during work hours? Then all you need to do is open your Facebook chat. Then click on the friends list and create a new list and name it as you wish. Now add all the friends you want to appear offline to this new list. When you are done, you will find all the unwanted friends grouped together. Then, spot the green dot next to the list name. Click on it and have a sigh of relief. You will appear offline to all these friends and yet remain online to those you wish to continue talking.

Desktop Chat
Every time you wish to chat, you had to log into your Facebook profile page. This became quite a task as you have to keep your Facebook profile window open all day long. You can avoid this by trying out this secret Facebook chat trick. All you need to do is use clients like social.im, Adium or ChitChat and start chatting to Facebook friends right from your desktop. You no longer have to log into your profile to get access to chat.

Thinking Upside Down
Give a shock to your chat buddies by typing upside down in the chat window. This is a really funny Facebook chat trick that will stump your buddies. All you need to do is visit FlipText and type in the sentence or word you want to write upside down. Then copy the word and paste it in your chat window. Bingo! You have now send your chat message in an upside down script. This trick will surely impress your friends.

Smiley's for Facebook Chat
Add fun to your chat with the help of these smiley faces on Facebook. Just type in the codes and add the fun of these emoticons.

Cool Facebook Chat Smileys
Emoticon Code	Emoticon Meaning
:-*	Kiss
^_^	"kiki"
-_	Squint
O.o	Confused
>:O	Upset
<3	Heart
:v	Pacman
:|]	Robot
:)	Happy
:(	Sad
:P	Tongue
:D	Grin
:O	Gasp
;)	Wink
8)	Glasses
B)	Sunglasses
:3	Cute/Cat-like
:/	Unsure
:'(	Cry
3:)	Devil
O:)	Angel
:putnam:	Chris Putnam (Facebook Engineer)

These are a few funny Facebook chat tricks that you can try to make your conversations more fun. I am sure you will find these Facebook tricks and secrets very useful. When you try these out, you will find Facebook chat is not a drag as compared to other instant messengers.