Do you know that you can configure your ichat to work with facebook chat? Its so easy to configure! Here are some of the screen capture of the configuration – and do pay particular attention the server configuration! Its not a default setting…

Settings are as follows:

  • Account type is Jabber account
  • Account name is your username@chat.facebook.com where username is http://www.facebook.com/username <– get this?
  • Server name chat.facebook.com
  • Port is at 5222

Account Information

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Server Information
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Here is the result!

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Hope this helps!

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