FaceBook has a built in chat engine which allows users to chat through their browser window. But often this is a pain i the bottom. It is always easier to chat using a dedicated client. In a previous post I had talked about pidgin – a free IM client with support for multiple accounts.
The best part about pidgin is that it will allow you to converge your friends accounts into a single icon on the GUI. that is you can combine a friends GTalk and Yahoo ids to a single name on pidgin. If the user is online is any one account your IM will e automatically to that id. Of course this does not mean you can cross chat from Yahoo to GTalk or vice versa.
Although Pidgin supports Myspace there is no built in support for FaceBook chat. but that’s not going to let you down, because there is a wonderful plugin available solely for that purpose. The pidgin-facebookchat plugin developed under Google code and distributed under GNU GPLv3 can let you use FaceBook chat on Pidgin. The plugin is available for both Windows and Linux.
Add a FaceBook account to pidgin screen shot
After installing the plugin goto “Accounts>>Manage Accounts>>Add” From the dropdown select FaceBook as the protocol. Set you username and password for the FaceBook account. You can set additional options including email notifications and Status updates from Pidgin under the Advanced tab.
pidgin-facebookchat home list of downloads
Just noticed a new video chat site called Chat Spasm, a chat site with girls.