Facebook through aim

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Thu, March 18, 2010 12:33, Christopher Lemire wrote:
> Is it possible to use facebook chat through aim with Pidgin or Empathy? If
> facebook chat is using the same protocol as aim, it should be possible
> just
> like I can add gmail chat contacts to my Jabber account. Last time I tried
> the pidgin-facebook plugin, it was not working and was not planned on
> being
> fixed until facebook was finished switching to the xMMP protocol. But as
> of
> now, I see that it could be using the aim protocol here
> http://products.aim.com/

No, you cannot use Facebook chat with the aim protocol.
However you can use it with the XMMP protocol (same as Jabber, Google
Talk,...)
There is no need for a Facebook chat plugin.

Detailed descriptions are on the Facebook Blog:
http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php