Quickly, let's say how much the Facebook chat from the main web page is poor and full of defects : slow, with small windows, which does not retain the history, which ends the communication by closing the page and which forces the user not to be able to change website and browse. The best programs for chatting on Facebook from desktop, without opening the browser, with friends displayed neatly like on MSN Messenger or other messaging programs have already been collected on one page of this site.
The recent news is that the famous (not in Italy) AIM instant messaging program, widely used in the United States and owned by AOL, to attract new subscriptions and compete with MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger, offers the possibility to add contacts all Facebook friends and chat with them .
AIM, for those who do not know it, is a popular and elderly (since 1997) instant messaging client that works as MSN Messenger, that is, you can chat with registered friends.
Recently he added the functions of the main social networks for the visualization of the statuses on Facebook and Twitter.
If the other chat programs for Facebook seem a little improvised, with integration plugins or programs with a lot of advertising, AIM is certainly a more solid and secure solution .
All Facebook friends are automatically added to the AIM interface (where the contacts are called Buddies).
The online ones are listed at the top and the online ones that are not on the page are marked with a ZZ icon.
To chat, just press on a friend's name and write and the conversation is saved to reread it when you want in an AIM history.
To use AIM you must register by providing an email address and indicating a password and a login nickname.
To chat with Facebook friends on AIM you need to download AIM .
AIM can also be integrated into Google Chat in Gmail (if you set the English language in the Gmail options) by going to the arrow next to the status settings.
The Facebook chat on AIM works well, you can still see Facebook contacts, but, if this is possible one day, there would be a really important and useful integration between Google Gmail and Facebook.
