HOW TO: Set Up Your First Facebook Messenger Room

HOW TO: Set Up Your First Facebook Messenger Room

Facebook is now rolling out Messenger Rooms to everyone. I tried it out for the first time, and had a chat with my niece. When I created my room, I allowed ALL FRIENDS to JOIN. After creating my room, on my computer browser, my phone rang with an invitiation!

Opps! Did Facebook Messenger Rooms just invite ALL MY FRIENDS with a message at 8:30 AM. D'OH! I don't think so, but I'm not sure. As I learn more I'll figure it out. I took screen shots of each screen in the process of setting up a room.

Here are the steps to set up a Facebook Messenger Room.



Image: Facebook asks you to Learn More or Create a Room


Image: Create Your Room options:

- Room Activity
- Who is invited?
- Start time

ROOM ACTIVITY:

Image: Room Activity Page 1


Image: Room Activity Page 2

WHI IS INVITED:

Image: Who is invited

Choose all your friends or specific people.


Image: Invite people

START TIME:

Image: Start Time

Select a start time.


Image: Trying Rooms. Invite.



Image: Join room


Image: Continue as YOU!


Image: My first room with my niece.

Facebook rooms. Bringing people together!



Image: Video and Audio controls



Image: What my Facebook page looks like after I left the room.

It looks like my room is still open after I leave it. Oh wiat, Jeff Cutler just asked me to join a room! It's my room!

I guess I can leave this open all day for friends to join.

Interesting.

UPDATE:

If you leave your room open to FRIENDS, any can join, even after you leave you room, if you leave it open. A friend from CT just joined a chat with my nephew. That never would have happened with Zoom.


Image: J. Bruce Jones and me. ;-)

Journalism by Wandering Around

Jackson West writes for NewTeeVee, Online Political Video a Winner in 2008:

Steve Garfield, who scooped CNN on Duncan Hunter’s announcement that he’s still in the race with a live video feed to Qik from his Nokia-sponsored phone over an AT&T-sponsored connection, didn’t bother to get any credentials at all. “Journalism by wandering around,” he called it in a phone chat.

His live video, in turn, got edited into a piece The UpTake and pushed as a Veracifier Ground Hound segment, with the two outlets partnering to provide more coverage.

Thanks Jackson, nice report.

On election night I was watching WBZTV.com in Boston. They were broadcasting on TV38 throughout the night, with a live text chat for viewers to talk with the anchors. First time I've ever seen this in Boston. It was groundbreaking for Boston TV to have on air anchors text chatting with viewers. BZ even had a segment where the anchors read some of hte chat comments on the air.

It took a while for them to stop calling the chat room blogging, but they soon stopped, because each time they said they were blogging, the chat room corrected them.

A few improvements could be made to the BZ chat room. It could only hold about 35 people, so new rooms were created as each chat room filed up. The explanation given was that the text would scroll too fast with too many people in the chat. They actually need a longer chat window, so you can more easily scroll back to see the history.

Automatic warnings to refrain from personal comments against the anchors or candidates disturbed chat room participants since no one was attacking any one.

It was a fun and intelligent crowd.

Finally, the chat room shut down in the middle of Clinton's speech, leaving me upset that it was gone and desiring chat rooms on WBZ for all live broadcasts.

I hope WBZ found it successful. I know I did. I stayed with WBZ all night on TV and online. That's probably what they wanted.

In theory, Avatar will address Bali conference

Avatar will address Bali conference in place of Markey - The Boston Globe:

"A live audience in Bali will hear Markey's speech. In theory, the audience will be able to ask the congressman questions, and Markey will be able to respond instantly over the Internet."

So funny.

I didn't know that talking to others in Second Life was theoretical

Once again the Globe doesn't link to the site that the main story is about, so here it is: Second Life.

And you can't expect the Globe to link inside Second Life by using a SLURL.

This Second Life blog, NPSL: Nonprofits in Second Life, knows how to do it though:

This year, Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, decided to avoid the carbon cost of flying and deliver his speech via Virtual Bali. Virtual Bali is the Second Life, carbon-friendly alternative to this year's UN Climate Summit (COP 13) meeting in Bali December 3-14th

You can meet Congressman Markey and hear his presentation in-world on the OneClimate islands tomorrow at 8 PM EST, 5PM PST/SL and 1:00 AM in the UK. Or you can watch it on the Web.

It's cool that they are using Second Life and all, but don't you think a live video stream with chat would be better in this case?

AIM IM Chat with Roxie Chase

I got a random IM chat request today that started off with "hi" and went from there:

Them: hi
Me: are you a robot?
Them: nope
Them: how are u doing today ?
Me: why do you ask?
Them: i am roxie chase and u ?
Me: I am a robot
Me: are you a Ghost Tracker?
Them: nope, I am a person a living person
Me: are you the daughter of Judge Chase
Them: no
Me: are you on a christian mission to Africa
Them: why did u ask ?
Me: it says so on google
Me: are you a beautiful, petite and spunky poodle girl
Them: yes, am beautiful
Me: that's great, nice chatting, bye
Them: do u have a yahoo messenger ? we can talk there ?
Me: nope. bye.

:-)