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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition
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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

by Keir Thomas
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Tip 81Use Facebook Chat

The Messages app can be configured as a Facebook chat client, which is to say you’ll be able to chat to your Facebook friends from within Messages, and the messages will appear for them when they’re logged into Facebook. This is possible because Facebook chat uses the Jabber protocol, which is a feature offered within Messages.

Setting up Facebook chat can be done whether or not you’ve configured Facebook within the Mail, Contacts & Calendars section of System Preferences.

Adding Facebook Chat to Messages

Here’s how to set it up:

  1. Before starting, you must find out your Facebook username. Often this is the latter part of the web address you see when you view your own profile in Facebook (for example, http://facebook.com/ ...

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