If you like to chat with your friends on Facebook, but hate to keep several opened tabs while chatting you'll be pleased to know that grouped chat might be coming to Facebook soon enough.

It seems that Facebook is trying to become a proper communication platform rather than just a social network, and after adding the video chat support, group chat seems like a logical solution. You probably don't know, but group messaging service for iOS, Beluga, has been purchased by Facebook and it has taken over the application and the development team.

Facebook plans to keep this service operational, but it appears that Facebook is trying to implant the group chatting technology to the Facebook's messaging system. As we said in the beginning, Facebook is trying to become a communication platform so this move was largely expected.

So far, we don't have enough details about this group chatting feature so we don't know when we might see it, but according to Facebook, we should get more details about it in a few weeks.

[via Ubergizmo]