Add Facebook Chat to your IM Client

Ok, this idea could be interesting. I actually have friends I chat with on Facebook Chat that I don't have on my usual IM client. Facebook now allows you to integrate Facebook Chat with multi-protocol IM clients like Pidgin through XPMM/Jabber.

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.
~Frm Lifehacker.

Why I say it could be interesting potentially is that there still are problems with this integration. The most annoying being that the importing of your Facebook friends will screw up whatever organization you currently have on your IM. Read more from Lifehacker.

So add it at your own risk, but with a few more tweaks, they might get it better.

Here're some instructions from LH reader David Ron:

Now that Facebook allows users to connect via XMPP, it's natural for us to want to use a chat client such as Pidgin to Instant Message from our familiar IM clients. Here are the settings you'd need to use:

* username: your Facebook username
* Domain: chat.facebook.com
* Resource: chat.facebook.com
* Password: your password.
* Under advanced, you need to disable encryption for now (lame).