fTalk

fTalk is a software client for desktop computers, especially designed to enhance the way in such a Way that the user can experience the social media by taking Facebook to a whole new level. Using fTalk, users can chat with their Facebook friends straight from the desktop with absolutely no more need of browsers. With fTalk, the user can chat and update their friends even when they are at sitting at home, or at workplace. fTalk also offers the option to see which friends are Online, and user can also change the Facebook status as well as use emoticons and can have a video chat too.

Features

fTalk is very fast and easy to use. It has some unique feature which makes the users browser independent. The traditional Facebook notifications are also available, so that the user can be notified about the activity of their friends who are online. It also lets the users directly update or set user defined Facebook status from within the client. It also provides emoticons that can be used in chat.

Comparison

When compared with the other chat clients/IM clients, fTalk only provides chat services for Facebook. Whereas, other similar chat clients enable the user to add several other accounts like Google, LinkedIn, AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live, MySpace. Whereas, some clients even allow the user to make VOIP calls. Though, the best thing about fTalk is that it does not require any separate account in order to be able to use fTalk for Facebook Chat.

Conclusion

fTalk is very comfortable to use, provides much better chat experience than what the classic Facebook chat itself provides. Being a browser independent client, one does not have to open up the browser. So it might save hardware resources as well by not being a resource intensive chat client.