Facebook chat - sending messages to offline contac...

Whenever I am writing something to a Facebook contact via Skype, and this person happens to go offline, even if it is just for a minute, the Skype window prohibits me from typing anything else as it changes to the "x is offline. Send SMS" window immediately. Also, there is no way to access what I have already typed till the contact in question comes back online. 
As this is terribly frustrating, I am wondering if there is a way to turn this off by changing some sort of setting, or whether this could be fixed in an upgrade or so. It of course shouldn't be an issue as Facebook itself allows offline messaging too.
A lot of my contacts actually just get on Facebook chat whenever I send them a message. I encounter the described problem about twice a day in average.
Thanks a lot!!

Common, it's a basic feature of any chat client. Some my facebook friends are invisible but still chat, however Skype consider they're offline and I cannot send message to them from Skype desktop.
Please allowed us to send message to FB offline contacts (in fact, they're really online, just invisible / turn off Chat status).

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