After signing in to Facebook, your friends can see that you’re online by default. You can open the chat window in the lower right corner of the window and choose to go offline, but after your next login to Facebook, this setting is lost and you’re online, again.
This may be not the way to go for multiple reasons:
- If I’m logging in to Facebook, this doesn’t necessarily mean that I want to chat. (People who know me probably also know that I don’t use instant messaging at all…)
- Privacy: I don’t want everyone (of my Facebook friends) to track my use of Facebook.
- When I use a phone with a Facebook app running in the background, I appear to be online and ready for chatting as long as the phone is connected to the Internet (probably always). This happened at least with the official Facebook app for Android.
So what to do? A friend of mine was so kind to show me a simple procedure to trick Facebook into hiding my status: Continue reading
