Adium Does Facebook Chat Well

I’ve never been a power user of either iChat or Adium. I use both from time to time, and I favor iChat for their interface. But Adium has some useful features that iChat would do well to duplicate.

One of those is being able to use Adium for Facebook chat. Truth be told, most of the people with whom I would spontaneously chat are on Facebook. So not having to keep a Safari window open and logged on is a plus.

You can “technically” use social.im as a plugin for iChat (or Adium) to chat with Facebook friends, but your friends must have it installed as well. That defeats the purpose.

So for now, I use Adium for Facebook and iChat for everything else. (I know, but I like iChat, damn it, and I don’t want to switch.)