Facebookhas justannouncednewvideo chatfeatures using its long-awaitedSkypeintegration.

The announcement come hot on the tail of Google’s Google Plus release, which features group video hangouts.

All other Facebook users will have the feature enabled within weeks.

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Also announced today is a group messaging system, where multiple friends can chat within the one chat window.

Group chats will be recorded in user messaging history as per regular one-to-one chats.

The release of video chat via Facebook will enable a wide variety of users to try video chat.

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For non-technical users, this could often be difficult or confusing to set up.

Let us know what you think of Facebook’s new features.

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