grayscale Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Do you guys use a desktop client for your Facebook contacts? This is when I don't want to be distracted with the news feed. Suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MarkusDarkus Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Trillian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Glassed Silver Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Adium on Mac... On Windows I'd suggest using Pidgin (slow development sometimes it seems...) or Trillian. :) Glassed Silver:mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Fish Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Facebook do their own desktop chat client. It's simple and works well. However, I choose to use Trillian instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Kami- Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Adium on Mac... On Windows I'd suggest using Pidgin (slow development sometimes it seems...) or Trillian. :) Glassed Silver:mac I think people should avoid Pidgin at the moment; what with all the security issues in the purplelib ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Calum Veteran Posted September 21, 2012 Veteran Share Posted September 21, 2012 I recommend Facebook's own desktop Chat app for Windows. It works very well and fits the design of Facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dinggus Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Adium for Mac. But then I got rid of it because I found it pointless to use a chat client for FB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 grayscale Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into Trillian. and Facebook's own client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 GreenMartian Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Or if you're on MSN (or whatever it's called these days), just use Messenger to connect to FB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ViperAFK Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I use trillian 5, its got great facebook integration (and also supports pretty much every other network) and is also very light on resource usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Royalty Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I use Trillian 5 as well. Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 BryanChung Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I'm on Trillian 5 too and it's good enough for me. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TTGSteve Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I just uninstalled the Facebook messenger that Facebook developed themselves. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the thing to stop popping up on start up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 grayscale Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 I just uninstalled the Facebook messenger that Facebook developed themselves. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the thing to stop popping up on start up. Use CCleaner to disable it on startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 gxsaurav Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Have you tried Talk.to? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nghiongmjgnhconakogcmkffikfpknna?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Haggis Veteran Posted September 27, 2012 Veteran Share Posted September 27, 2012 The facebook deskop one itself is really good i used it for a while, i use Pidgin now though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 myxomatosis Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Adium on Mac... On Windows I'd suggest using Pidgin (slow development sometimes it seems...) or Trillian. :) Glassed Silver:mac "Messages" (iChat) in Mac OS supports Facebook chat very well (Jabber protocol), no need for a third party software ;) http://brajeshwar.com/2012/setup-facebook-chat-with-messages-in-os-x-mountain-lion/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MS Bob 11 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I use fTalk. Has video chat too. Just avoid installing the toolbar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Glassed Silver Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 "Messages" (iChat) in Mac OS supports Facebook chat very well (Jabber protocol), no need for a third party software ;) http://brajeshwar.com/2012/setup-facebook-chat-with-messages-in-os-x-mountain-lion/ I'm aware of that, however, as much as I like the benefits of Messages, you can't get me to move towards it as I'd lose some precious features and I like to keep my messaging as open (as in OSS) as possible. Adium is open-source, so even if they stopped developing it, it'd be fairly easy to export the chat logs to sensible formats. I REALLY like the integration with Mail though, as in seeing that someone is online or offline. Totally dig that, but oh well... :( Can't have everything I guess... Glassed Silver:mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Do you guys use a desktop client for your Facebook contacts? This is when I don't want to be distracted with the news feed. Suggestions?
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