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Facebook Chat on Mac - iChat


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Of the millions of Mac Owners and Facebook Users, how many of them do you think use Facebook chat frequently ? ( Meant to be rhetorical but feel free to comment ) Facebook's chat service is quite possibly one of the most attractive features of the Billion dollar enterprise. As opposed to other chat services such as MSN messenger, Facebook allows you to chat with users without having their email ID and also without downloading any software; it works through your web browser. So to use this -

1. You'll need a facebook "username". Go to your facebook profile and it'll be in the url in the format 'http://www.facebook.com/your_username" where 'your_username' is your username.
2. Now open iChat from the applications folder in your mac or search for it on iChat.
3. Now press command-comma(,) to open iChat preferences.
4. Go to accounts within the preferences window and add a new account.
5. Fill in the following details -

Facebook Touch

If you use Facebook a lot, or even a little ( Which you probably do ) on your iPod, iPhone or iPad ( iDevice ), then you might want to start going on touch.facebook.com instead. A great website designed by The Facebook Team specifically for Touch Devices is a great alternative to Facebook.com Another option is to download the Facebook app for iPhone. Sadly there is no such app for iPad yet.