Ever feel like you don’t spend enough time on Facebook? Well, Vivox is looking to help you spend even more time there!

According to CNET, a Boston-based company named Vivox is currently conducting a closed test of a new application for Facebook users that will allow you to have high quality voice chats with one another.  If you want to add someone into the conversation that is not a member of Facebook, that will also be possible thanks to phone numbers that Vivox will have set up that they can call in to.

The interesting add-on to this story is that the Vivox technology will also be available to be added to the application released by other developers.  You could see voice chat showing up in game applications, a great way for retailers to talk with their customers or maybe even let classmates discuss an assignment or possibly a reunion.

The big question is how this will impact Skype.  Vivox does require you to make a small download to run the conversation, but it should still be smaller than Skype, and also will allow you to run one less application.  It’ll be interesting to see how this will end impacting the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) solution, but our money is on that Vivox will do well, but it won’t ever kill off Skype.  Why?  Simple, let me know when Vivox is able to give me a real phone number, voice mail and ring through to my cell phone, and then maybe I’ll see it as a “Skype Killer”, for now it’s just a nice add-on to Facebook.