( ( Mashable ) ) -- Be honest : has Facebook chat ever been your favorite form of instant messaging ? For many of us , Gchat , Skype or even AIM are our preferred defaults . Now , a new gimmick is making us like Facebook 's built-in chat function a whole lot more . As demonstrated in the photo above , you can make the profile pictures of Facebook users and pages show up inside your chat windows . Here 's how : . 1 . Start chatting with someone ( pretty simple ) . 2 . When you 'd like to refer to a mutual friend or , say , Coca Cola , you dump their profile id ( either their name or a string of numbers for those users who have n't claimed their choice URL ) into double brackets . So , that would be [ [ cocacola ] ] for a picture of Coke , [ [ zuck ] ] for Mark Zuckerberg and [ [ mashable ] ] for the logo of where your learned about this new feature , and so on . 3 . Amaze everyone on Facebook chat with this cool new gimmick . What do you think , will inserting your friend 's faces bring the end of the emoticon era , or will the Internet forever be dominated by the : ) face ? [ Via Geekosystem ] . © 2013 MASHABLE.com . All rights reserved .
Facebook chat gimmick lets you insert faces of friends , others . A pair of double brackets around a profile ID name or number makes it happen .