FaceTime won't activate on my mac

     I was running snow leopard on my mac. I upgraded to yosemite. Now i can't get my facetime to activate. It will come up, the camera will work. I put in my apple ID & password click on submit. The space were my ID & password was goes blank . The space that i click on submit goes blank and cancel comes up in that space and there is no activation.

Try this link
FaceTime for Mac: Troubleshooting FaceTime - Apple Support
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