Facebook's chat feature allows you to engage in real-time conversations with your friends. If you're visiting Facebook for other reasons, such as playing games or updating your status, you may not with to speak with anyone. Rather than ignoring your friends' messages or chatting when you don't want to, change your settings so that no one can see you're logged on. Make yourself invisible on Facebook chat by setting your status to offline.
Sign in to Facebook.
Click the gray "Chat" box at the bottom of the screen. This opens the Chat window.
Click "Options" in the Chat window.
Click "Go Offline" in the drop-down Options menu. Once you're offline, you're invisible to anyone else who's logged in.
Sign in to Facebook.
Click the gray "Chat" box at the bottom of the screen. This opens the Chat window.
Click "Options" in the Chat window.
Click "Go Offline" in the drop-down Options menu. Once you're offline, you're invisible to anyone else who's logged in.