You can also use facebook chat in IChat via Jabber. Just use chat.facebook for the server name and put in a Facebook username and password. It works very well.
Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Jan 1, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi Venkatesh! > You will need Adium and then this should be what you need to do to get > Facebook chatting! > hth Colin > Qapla! > 1. go to facebook.com and go to your account! > 2. open account settings and select change user name [ even if you do not > have one] > 3. Facebook should give you some options and just after them will be a more > link select it! > 4. Now after the options Facebook gives you [I did not like the suggestions > for me] there is a edit box where you can put your own name! > There is a see if name is available button after you put your choice, if it > is available you can have it! > If not try another or add a number to the end! [ it might help] > 5. When your happy come out of Facebook and open Adium! > 6. In Adium on your contacts window open vo+m and go to the file menu! > 7. Scroll down to add new account sub menu and arrow right, go down to Jabber > and select it! > 8. In the new account window is where you'll find those tabs, the first one > should be selected just scroll past until you get to where you put your new > user name! > When you've entered it the next field is your Facebook password! > 9. After filling those in go back to the options tab select and scroll to > where you put the server name [ as you correctly said ] chat.facebook.com and > enter it! > 10. go to register new account button and press it! > And you should be done! :] > On 1 Jan 2012, at 05:33, Venkatesh Potluri wrote: > >> Hi listers. >> Wish you all a happy new year! >> I have a few doubts regarding chatting with Facebook friends. >> as the Facebook chat is not accessible, Can you suggest me a good chat >> client that is accessible and works well with Facebook? >> I recently learned that iChat can be used for this purpose. however, I >> am unable to view my friend lists in iChat. I setup my account such >> that I always appear offline to a few lists. if I am using iChat, will >> those people be able to see me online? >> Thank you. >> Regards >> Venky >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
