Facebook Chat with iChat

Hey guys, this is Mack Heads 101, and today I'm going to be making a video on how to use iChat with Facebook. So you can chat with all your buddies and friends on Facebook using iChat. If you're someone who uses Facebook often, or Facebook is blocked at school, or you just prefer to talk to them through iChat, this video should help you out.

So first thing you wanna, you're gonna wanna do is go to facebook.com, and you're gonna wanna figure out what your Facebook username is. So to do this, you're going to want to go to Account, and then you're going to want to go to, um, to Account Settings. Your username is right here, under Username. You might not have one set right now, so you can just set one by going to Edit. You can only change your username once, though, and I recommend having a username without any symbols in it, just because I knew people whose username was their first name dot and then their last name, or something with a dot in it, and they had trouble doing what I'm about to show you. So I recommend just letters. Maybe it doesn't make a difference now, but that's what I've seen in the past.

So, uh, yeah, once you find out what your username is, you no longer need facebook.com; you can close that. And you're gonna want to go ahead and navigate to iChat, and then go into iChat Preferences. You can do that by going to iChat and then saying Preferences or Command Comma.

All right, in iChat Preferences, you're going to want to navigate to the Accounts page right here, and then you're going to want to create a new account. So you can do that by hitting the plus button, and the account type is going to be a Jabber account because Facebook uses Jabber accounts for chatting now. Your username is going to be whatever your username was on Facebook, so this was mine. Then you're going to say @chat.facebook.com.

So again, your username is your Facebook username @chat.facebook.com. Then you're going to want to put in your Facebook password. I'm just going to retype that in just to make sure it works well.

All right, and then go ahead— that's not it. You're going to want to go ahead and check some of the server options, so you click on this triangle there. The server is going to be chat.facebook.com. Then, under the server name, and the port, you're gonna make sure that it's 5222.

Then if you hit done, it should, if everything works, open up Facebook, and then you could see all your Facebook buddies here. Right here, there's going to be their Facebook profile picture and then their name. If they're available, it'll be a green indicator, and if they're away, it'll be a red indicator.

So this is pretty much how to set up Facebook with iChat. I had to cover up some of the information in this video to respect my friends' privacy because I didn't tell them I was gonna make this video.

Anyways, I hope this helped you if you are a frequent Facebook user. For more tips and tricks on how to do things like this, feel free to check out our channel and subscribe. Goodbye, thanks for watching!