Complete Guide To Facebook Features In Skype 5.5 Beta

By farshad on Jun 21 2011 1 Comment

The latest Skype 5.5 beta for Windows now comes with all new features and enhanced Facebook integration options. One of the major additions in Skype 5.5 includes a new Facebook tab, which is designed to deliver easy access to your Facebook stream, write status updates, allow adding comments, and chat with your Facebook contacts. Calling Facebook friends is now as easy as ever, you can directly call a Facebook contact if he/she has added a phone number to a Facebook profile. In this post we will provide a detailed guide regarding the use of Facebook features in Skype 5.5

     

  • Facebook Feed Integration

When you log into the all new Skype 5.5, one of the most obvious change which you will notice is the Facebook tab. This tab contains your your Facebook feed which expands into side by side horizontal stacks, as the Skype window is expanded. Interestingly, the more you expand the Skype window, the more side by side horizontal feed blocks appear.

Feed 2

You can select your status message, comment on friend’s activity from the news feed and get notifications for new feeds.

Status Message

To log out from your Facebook account anytime, select the disconnect option given below your Status box.

Disconnect From facebook

  • Call Facebook Contacts From Skype

Now you can call your Facebook contacts directly from the Facebook tab in Skype. Just hover your mouse over a friend’s name and select the Call Phone button. This will display your contacts’ phone number which he/she has added to their Facebook profile. You can click on the available number to instantly call your friend via Skype.

Call Phone

  • Facebook Chat integration

One of the most useful additions to Skype 5.5 is the ability of Skype users to chat with Facebook contacts via Skype. This provides the utility to chat with both Skype and Facebook contacts simultaneously, without the need of visiting Facebook using a browser.

Friends List

One feature of Skype 5.5 which has definitely improved Facebook chat is the system tray notification, which alerts you when one of your Facebook contact is online. These notifications also appear when you log into Facebook chat via Skype.

System Tray

  • Window Separation Option

For better identification of your Facebook feeds and chats, you can switch between Compact and Default view by clicking on the button highlighted in the below screenshot. The default view separates the chat window and the Facebook feed so that you can monitor them separately. Clicking on the same button enables you to combine the two separated windows (Compact View).

Side By Side

Download Skype version 5.5 from the link given below to get the above mentioned Facebook features.

Download Skype 5.5

  • Chris

    I recently installed Skype 5.5 beta and one VERY annoying feature is the Huge skype home windows that pops up separately from the skype main window (I use compact view). From what I can see… there is no way to disable this window from popping up every time I start skype.

    It seems skype has a habit of forcing this to show without giving the option to disable or permanently hide. I just did some testing and I see that if you have the default view selected, the window does not pop up… it’s just to the right side of the main (larger) window. However, if you use the compact view, a larger second window is forced to opened up every time you start the program..

    Why Skype….. WHY????

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