Use facebook chat in your desktop: Applications that work
by Kyle on November 3, 2009

Some people use facebook book chat instead of their Instant Messengers since most of their friends hang out in facebook than logging in to IM’s. Facebook chat has become one of the essential parts of facebook lovers and finding to connect with Facebook chat without logging into facebook is a good thing if you’re working with busy schedules and studies. Here’s one of the great web applications and desktop solutions if you want to keep in touch with your friends without logging into your facebook account.
- Digsby – One of the pioneers of All-in-One chat clients. It’s diverse support to vast social networking sites and instant messengers made it one of the best alternatives if you are having a collection of Instant Messengers and Social Networks.
- Flock – The social web brower enabling you to chat with your friends in facebook without staying to facebook homepage. You have to log in with your facebook account first before you enable the chat system in it. You can also use it to check your tweets to if you have one.
- Scrapboy - a new multi-puropose tool for social networks. It supports Orkut,Facebook and MySpace to do some of the functionalities of the said networks. If you are into these three social networks Scrapboy is a desktop application that will definitely suit your needs.
- Gabtastik – A Site Specific Browser which can be integrated in your desktop. Gabtastik lets you keep chat sessions open on your desktop outside of your regualr web browser using minimal screen real estate and system memory. Available to Windows users and supports Facebook and Google talk.
- Fluid – Another Site Specific Browser for Fellow MAC users. Provides great solutions to most web applications basic needs including facebook chat and email connectivity.Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, logical separation from your other web browsing activity, and many, many other goodies.
- Palringo – Supports Facebook chat in alpha stage but works perfectly even if it’s new. It’s another all-in-one chat client similar to digsby hich you can download and get connected to most social networks and Instant Messengers available around. You can also purchase the Palringo Application in your iPhone
- Trillian – Trillian is Digsby’s greatest rival in all-in-one chat clients which supports varied features like digsby itself. The much improved User interface in Trillian’s latest release prove to be another aspect worth noting for. It also works perfectly with twitter.
- Adium – Free instant messagin application for MAC OS X that can connect to AIM,MSN,Jabber,Yahoo and more (including Facebook chat).
- Meebo – Although you need to be in their website, meebo is a good addition in using Facebook chat. You can connect to Yahoo and other Insant messenger clients without doing any downloads.



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