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How to Add Facebook Chat to Your IM Client
By: world~hacker Date: April 27, 2011, 5:13 pm
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AIM client, there's now an easy way to get Facebook Chat in the
IM client of your choice.
Over a year ago, Facebook announced that they planned to support
Facebook Chat over XMPP/Jabber, the same protocol that Google
Talk uses, so people could use Facebook Chat in their favorite
IM client—and then it was never mentioned again. Yesterday,
though, Facebook announced that in addition to the AIM
partnership, the XMPP/Jabber implementation had finally come to
fruition.
If you are using a multi-protocol IM client such as Pidign,
Adium, or iChat, set-up is really easy—you just add a new Jabber
or XMPP account, the username being your
username@chat.facebook.com, with your password being the same as
your Facebook password. If you still haven't gotten a Facebook
username (the tag that appears after www.facebook.com/ for your
profile page) you'll need to go to your Settings page to enable
it.
Once you log in, all your Facebook friends should show up in
your buddy list. If this is good enough for you, that's fine,
but I found it really messed with my organization. Although
Facebook lets you decide which friend lists do and do not show
up in your IM client, it doesn't seem to realize that those not
on a list are important too—so if you have friends that aren't
on a friend list, they'll just show up in a list called
"Buddies" on your IM client, and there's no way to take them off
(short of hiding that list client-side). Since most of my AIM
and Gtalk contacts were already on a list called "Buddies", I
had to create a new list for them to get my organization back on
track. You may or may not care—it's just a warning that that
list will likely be where all your unlisted Facebook friends go
(at least it was for me).
Apart from that, everything else should be handled pretty well
client-side. Profile are grabbed, Away in your client
corresponds to Idle on Facebook, and, if you were previously
using the unofficial add-on for adding Facebook Chat to Adium or
Pidgin, you should find that the official route is far less
flaky as far as connection goes. The service is pretty new, so
there are bound to be a few bugs or hidden workarounds—if you
find any, be sure to let us know in the comments! Thanks
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