Facebook error with the IM feature

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Does anyone know why the IM feature on Facebook wouldn’t work on someone’s computer?
Basically what happens is I can see the list of who is online but if I go to send something to them it takes forever to send it and when it finally does it shows that my entire list if offline (even though they were online right before I sent it).
People can also send something to me and I can see what they sent, but when I send something back the same thing happens where it takes forever to send it and then shows everyone off line.

Anyone experience this before? Seems like a certain plug-in or cookie or something isn’t activated… but what the hell do I know… haha

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This is a very common problem w/ facebook and can happen randomly.

Shut down your explorer. Clear cookies, temp files, history, etc. Restart explorer, try again.

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It does it literally every time I’ve gone on the website on my work computer… never has done it on my home computer.
Should I still try what you suggested and see if it works?
Definitely isn’t a random thing… seems like maybe something is blocking it completely on my work comp.

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I am guessing at work they have a gateway/router/firewall in that order, setup. If this is the case, the firewall can cause this to happen.

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Facebook is buggy as hell in general.

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This kind of shit happens to me all the motha fuckin time. I dont know if theres anyway to fix it

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I use to have that issue my old job… they had it set up to somehow block that function on facebook…

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Fuck facebook IM.

Use AIM foo!

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it’s going to happen alot. Facebook’s IM system blows.