What Does a White Bubble Next to Facebook Chat Mean?
By Carolyn Luck
Facebook Chat enables members to send and receive messages in real-time as though they're chatting in person. To help facilitate the back-and-forth conversational flow, Facebook uses indicators to let you know when someone is typing a message to you.
White Chat Bubbles
When chatting with a Facebook friend, you simply type your message in the appropriate space on your device, send and wait. Once your message is received, your friend can read it and may choose to respond. A white bubble will appear below your message, indicating that she is, in fact, typing her response. These visual cues help to facilitate the flow of your conversation, keeping questions and answers in proper order. Chatting lends itself to terse, fragmentary bits of text, rather than properly formatted sentences. Knowing when someone is typing a response enables you to give him a chance to express himself.
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Writer Bio
Carolyn Luck has developed an extensive technical background in social media, online marketing, event planning, business development and small business management while serving as editor of "iMarketing Magazine." She has been published in "IPTV Magazine" and has contributed to many websites. Luck holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.