REPORT: Chat Rooms Coming To Facebook?

AOL in the 1990s, or Facebook in 2013? The social network is testing a new feature, code-named “host chat,” which allows users to establish chat rooms that their friends can join without invitations, Facebook confirmed to TechCrunch.

AOL in the 1990s, or Facebook in 2013? The social network is testing a new feature, code-named “host chat,” which allows users to establish chat rooms that their friends can join without invitations, Facebook confirmed to TechCrunch.

Facebook would only issue its standard response to TechCrunch:

We do test things from time to time with a small percentage of users.

However, a source within Facebook described how the host chat feature works, saying that a host chat button appears in the status update composer, alongside the “update status” and “add photos/video” options.

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