News & Rumors

Add Your BlackBerry Messenger Barcode To Your Facebook Profile

by Bla1ze

on 18 Mar 2010 10:20 AM

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I'm sure you all remember the Facebook announcement from Research In Motion announcing the cool things coming for BlackBerry Messenger. Well, here is one of the things they had planned for those upcoming days and weeks.

You can now add your BlackBerry Messenger barcode to your Facebook profile using the new Barcode generator app on Facebook. While it's not likely what we were all hoping for, it's kinda cool to play around with. You can add your PIN, change your barcode colors and background. One more pic after the jump of some of it in action, although..at the moment the Facebook app seems to be having some troubles.

Personalize Your BlackBerry

Source: Facebook

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: Barcode, BlackBerry Messenger, FaceBook, Research In Motion

132 Comments

Posted by ALDHIZER Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

pretty cool but the announcement i was looking for

Posted by mychair Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

This couldn't be anymore underwhelming. Crap like this is a simple update that doesn't even warrant an announcement. Could RIM be anymore behind the curve.

Posted by serpico Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 693 days ago

Unbelievable. This is it? My family and friends don't even know that barcode exists or know what it's for.

Posted by asianguy80 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 693 days ago

You can already display your bar code, save the image, then upload it via the facebook app on your BB and it does the same thing! Fail on RIM's part. The only 'update' is that you can colorize the bar code. Sorry but whoop-de-doo.

Posted by datta72 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

not really that impressed.......u could put ur barcode on facebook without this "new" feature

Posted by jabbs1 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

yeah as your profile pic. who the hell wants to do that?

Posted by dasbeav Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

You'd be surprised!

Posted by devGOD Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 693 days ago

why can't you freak'n scan a barcode directly from the camera screeen. going into bbmsger just to scan a code is silly. add an option to the camera menu. dont RIM developers think? they over look the simple tasks.

Posted by Dave Peckens Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

I've tried from 3 different computers and 2 different browser windows, but the Facebook app doesn't seem to be functioning. #Lame #Fail

Posted by nthnc Friday, Mar 19, 2010 693 days ago

When I tried it soon after the blog post was made, everything worked but uploading the barcode to my Facebook page. It brought up my BlackBerry and instead of the barcode being on the "screen" in the picture of the BB, it was off to the side and unable to be fully seen. Also, my BB wouldn't read barcodes from the Facebook generated barcodes (though taking a photo of them on CB forums works fine...?!)

Posted by boondocker Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

the fb app has soooo many errors lol.useless for now.

Posted by andriakaye Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

lol @ "at the moment the Facebook app seems to be having some troubles."

typical Facebook, eh?

Posted by javdvd Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

BB is by far the best smartphone in the market!!! All the developers should realize of this and put ALL the apps of th iPhone on BB too!! This is great... !!!

Posted by jakeh0 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 693 days ago

facepalm.jpg

Posted by dtanderson Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 693 days ago

I am just counting down the time until my contract expires so that I can get me a new phone (Android based).

Posted by CJohnson481 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

More features that could have been done in windows 95! I hope we have more of these sweet features to look forward to in RIM's OS "6.0".

Posted by andriakaye Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

i could just beg of these people not to post this crap til the site is actually functional.

Posted by andriakaye Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

and this confirms most suspicions from yesterday....the new things coming have nothing to do with getting new things on our BBM, but utilizing what we already have in different ways, such as the barcode.

Posted by ramb0 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

the facebook barcode generator is 'generating' a blank facebook page because its not loading!! issues me think??

Posted by its_a_bb_thing Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

Ok but why so excited?

Posted by jay_man33 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

What's with the colours? "Personalize" or more of "choose our options and like it". We could've done this normally WITHOUT another app on our pages - this isn't what we're looking for! Besides, where' the "RIM BLUE" in all these lovely colour combos? ... FAIL...

Posted by bobaloo Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

While this seems kind of lame, I like that they're trying to spread BBM barcode awareness. Most people know nothing about it.

even more frustrating is new BBs still coming with 4.x versions of BBM. I've convinced a lot of people to switch to BBs. When showing them how to use it and set it up and how cool BBM is, I have to upgrade them so I can show them how the barcodes work.

But, yeah, if more people know about and how to use the barcodes, it'd make the whole thing more purposeful.

Posted by RoninKSB Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 693 days ago

I agree. This may seem lame to the folks that frequent this site but to everyone else, promotion of this feature is definitely a good thing. I think it is a particularly good idea considering that these barcodes are going to be in more and more common use.

P.S. If you can forego the color customization, you can already save your barcode onto the phones memory card. If you go into BBM and bring up the code and hit the menu key or the trackpad/ball there is an option to Save Barcode Image which will prompt you to save it to a location on your card. It saves the image in png format. I use shortcutme and create a shortcut to the picture folder that contains the barcode images (I have more than one in the folder) and it is much quicker than going in to BBM and calling it up.

Posted by jmyardie Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

THIS IS SIMPLY AMAZING. I LOVE THIS

Posted by blackberryitalian Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

it's seems it's not working for me with Chrome and I.Explorer

Posted by Alex338 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

Tried Chrome and IE, just loads a blank facebook page.

Posted by gafly Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

LAME... I've been doing this via a Flickr link in the text box underneath my profile picture for awhile now.

Posted by ecfinn Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

Either on IE or via opera mini on BB Tour...

Posted by StaticFX Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

Not to sound stupid.. (even though i will lol)

I havent used the barcode feature yet, I watched the video on how to add a contact in BBM 5 - but mine does not have add contact in the menu!??

Posted by gafly Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

Does it have "invite contact"? haha

Posted by StaticFX Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 693 days ago

yeah.. lol - its not even friday yet! not good!
I guess I assumed that was like to send an email... like "Invite someone to join facebook" lol
thanks

Posted by rj5570 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

http://apps.facebook.com/bb_barcodegenerator/

doesnt work, get a blank page

Posted by CrackberryBrandon Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

Thats pretty cool

Posted by Syco54645 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

lame. i'm getting rather tired of rims "innovation"...

Posted by rayanifoxmur Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

This would be pretty cool if it actually... you know, worked. 3 different browsers just load a blank page.

Maybe don't release something until you know it's going to work past the first 5 minutes?

Posted by gafly Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

I just thought about posting "IT WORKS NOW" to see how many people I could get to start frantically reloading the pages on all of their browsers (again) but I decided that would be mean.

Posted by Burzlurker Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

I was interested to see what rim had planned until this annoucment. I hope they have better stuff in store because this really doesn't mean much in the long run, but with no upgrades required I'm doubting its anything most blackberry users haven't been doing them selves already.

How about getting the twitter app updated and out to the general public instead of wasting time on this? Or update the facebook app (for the phone) with more functions (facebook chat amongst other things). Is rim listening to the consumers?

Posted by Leafan Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

RIM listen to the consumer...... Not likely. If they were they would be more concerned with fixing the joke called Facebook for BlackBerry.. And maybe they would be less concerned with having 10 diferent models on the shelves and concentrate on making a good browser. The people want a browser that isn't a joke..... Not a slider phone... Oh but that's right more money in new hardware.

Posted by LoS24 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

Wow RIM you are truly innovative. no one is going to want an iphone or android device now!

Posted by miz_pimp Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

How about updating their Facebook app first?

@gafly, I lol'd! :P

Posted by cvaria Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

that the usefulness of the blackberry has plateaued. and i still have just a tour with no wifi or trackpad..... disrespected

Posted by slinky317 Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

Come on RIM, you're better than just this. I sure hope there's more to come.

Posted by qrescue Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

But I know my daughter will enjoy this feature. Lol. When its working.

Posted by DustBow Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 694 days ago

Would putting your barcode "out there" for everyone to see possbily put you in danger of getting spam just like putting an email out there for people to find?
Just a thought - last thing I need is a bunch of junk coming to my BBM.

Also, I agree with those who believe RIM is just trying to get this feature more mainstream, many people have no idea it's even available.