People love to keep in touch with Facebook friends through chat, but logging into Facebook just to chat with friends who are online becomes pretty chaotic. What if you want to talk with people on Facebook and with people on some other messenger, say Gtalk or Yahoo, at the same time? The conventional method would be logging into all the messengers and using them simultaneously.
Then comes Pidgin, providing you with a platform where you can create a multi-protocol chat. With its added Facebook support for XMPP chat, you can now use it to chat with Facebook friends at the same time as with friends from other social media, all in one program! Pidgin is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but adding Facebook chat to it is the same for all devices
Then comes Pidgin, providing you with a platform where you can create a multi-protocol chat. With its added Facebook support for XMPP chat, you can now use it to chat with Facebook friends at the same time as with friends from other social media, all in one program! Pidgin is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but adding Facebook chat to it is the same for all devices
Adding Facebook to Pidgin
- Launch Pidgin. Double-click the Pidgin IM shortcut icon on your desktop if you have it there, or open it from your Programs menu. The Pidgin IM is of a purple pigeon.
Download Facebook Chat Plugin from https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook/wiki. Anyway the developers might remove this page since Pidgin will have this plugin preinstalled in the next major release. - Open the Accounts menu. Usually, the Manage Accounts menu will automatically open after launching Pidgin, displaying all the IM accounts you linked with it. If it only launched an IM window, click “Accounts” at the top header of the window and then select “Manage Accounts.”
- Click “Add” at the bottom of the Manage Accounts window. An “Add account” window will pop-up; there are three tabs at the top: “Basic,” “Advanced,” and “Proxy.” Basic will be the default tab opened on the window.
- Change the Protocol to Facebook. In the Basic tab, the first option is Protocol with a drop-down arrow. Click the arrow and a list of IMs you can link to will drop down. Select “Facebook” not "Facebook (XMPP)" option. Please note that the "Facebook (XMPP) option no longer works.
- Enter your email, Facebook username, or phone number. Any one of these options will work.
- Enter your Facebook password. You can check the “Remember password” box if you want to automatically sign into Pidgin the next time.
- Add Facebook to Pidgin. Now you can click the “Add” button below. A Buddy List window will appear. This Buddy List shows all available friends from Facebook as well as other IM accounts linked with Pidgin (if you linked any)
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