New Facebook Messenger helps to know Friend is online using Mobile or Web

It’s been noticed that Facebook users are always keen to know if their friend is online using Mobile or web. Though it was possible to know earlier but since couple of months Facebook was not showing clearly if a user is online on Chat using their Smart phone mobile version of Facebook messenger or using web browser and being online on web application.

   Why a user wants to know if a Facebook friend online using mobile or web?

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• Sometime if we send message and if user is online on mob they may not give a prompt reply
• We need to send a link of other website only if our friend is online using web application
• We might not disturb our friend if he/she online using mob and might be busy with something else
• There might be few features works only if a friend online using web
• Just curious to know what our friends doing now :p

How to know if Friend is online using Mobile or web?

   How New Facebook messenger helps to know if a Friend online using mobile or web?

–> For Facebook Web users

If you are login on Facebook using Web browser, you may use google chrome to know if your friend is online using Mobile or Web Facebook. I have checked on firefox browser but using mozilla i still not able to check this information.

Below screen will help you to understand how you can see if your friend is online using Mobile or Web application of Facebook.

* Recently Mozilla Firefox and Safari also rolled out these changes and you can get similar chat window on other browsers too.

New application on chrome browser clearly tells you if your Facebook friend is online using mobile or web application. I hope this will help you to know but only problem is you have to use chrome till the time Facebook roll out these changes on other web browsers too.

–> For Facebook Mobile Messenger users

Well, if you are using Facebook Messenger on your smart phone (iPhone, Android, Nokia or any other model) to chat with your other Facebook friends, you can download latest version of Facebook Messenger and you will get a basket full of new features including SMS to your friends, synchronize your phone book contacts with Facebook messenger to know and connected with any other friends, know if friend is online using mobile or web, set notifications and etc.

Here you go, simply get latest updates and stay updated to know if your friend is online using mobile or web.