Review: Facebook Chat on Adium
Background
Yesterday Adium released a beta version of their program that supported Facebook Chat. As one would assume Adium now allows you to log into your Facebook profile and chat with your friends without ever entering a browser.
Does it work?
Sure does! Adium did a wonderful job seamlessly adding in Facebook chat. I have the instant messenger service set up for aol instant messenger, gchat, and now Facebook Chat.
Problems
Running Adium with Facebook Chat enabled makes browsing Facebook a terrible experience. Every page you attempt to visit requires a log in. Every step you take is accompanied by yet another prompt to log-in. It is basically a see-saw effect of you logging out of Adium, and then in turn Facebook. One has to wonder if Facebook built the platform like this intentionally to stop companies such as Adium from building this type of application.
What do you think?
Do you like having Facebook Chat within Adium? Have you experienced the continual log outs? Do you think Facebook did this on purpose?
