My girlfriend asked me how to do bold and italic text in Facebook chat. I didn’t know, so I did some research and it turns out you can easily add bold text or italics to your Facebook chat by adding small code around it. I guess bold text can help emphasize your facebook chats, and italics can make your text look different. It’s not really a new font for Facebook chat, but it’s kind of cool. Here’s the code to make your text italic or bold on Facebook chat:

Get it? Put *stars* around your text to bold it, and put _underscores_ to make it italic! Enjoy your new bold and italic text in Facebook chat!

Update – As the very smart Alex pointed out in the comments, _surrounding with underscores_ does, of course, underline the text. Let’s keep looking for the italic markers!