Earlier this month Facebook announced that their chat feature now supports XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). What I truly appreciate about Facebook’s support for XMPP is how they have integrated the Friends Lists to selectively decide which friends show up online.
To connect to Facebook Chat from Pidgin follow the instructions below:
1) Create your Facebook username by going to http://www.facebook.com/username
2) Open Pidgin
3) Click Accounts
4) Click Manage Accounts and you should see the following appear:
5) Click Add
6) Set the following options under the Basic tab:
Protocol: XMPP
Username: Username you created in Step 1
Domain: chat.facebook.com
Password: Enter your password
6) Set the following options under the Advanced tab
Require SSL/TLS: Unchecked
Connect port: 5222
Connect server: chat.facebook.com
7) Click Save