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Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP

Posted by timothy on from the cross-pollination-nation dept.

supersloshy writes "Facebook Chat has so far only been meant to be used in a web browser, and instant messaging applications have had a hard time implementing its undocumented protocol. Today, Facebook is making this job much easier by enabling support for XMPP to access its chat service. AOL's AIM and the Empathy Instant Messenger are also including pre-set Facebook options, due to already supporting XMPP." Here are instructions for setting up XMPP Facebook chat with popular instant messaging clients, including Pidgin and Adium.

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  1. FUCKING BASTARDS! by Hurricane78 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, they offer Jabber support. But if you want to use it, you have to have a user name.
    But to have that, YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM YOUR PHONE NUMBER!

    Yeah, right. Not in a thousand years!!!

    WTF? Fuck you, Failbook!

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    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
    1. Re:FUCKING BASTARDS! by Hurricane78 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      +1 Flamebait. Exactly what I meant it to be. :)

      Yes, this was a flame. Against the fuckers at Facebook. And I’m fucking proud of it!

      Oh, and NO. I do not have anything in my Facebook profile, except contacts to write messages to, because I have no choice. I would not have any account there if I could. Thank my idiot friends. I hope they get viruses and go to jail for a botnet client saving child porn on their systems!

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      Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
  2. Re:Yet another IM. . . by Ma8thew · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You're totally right, nothing productive has ever been accomplished over IM. And other communication methods are only used for serious and valuable conversations.