Yes, but it has been deprecated.
On 6/4/2015 4:04 PM, Traci wrote:
Is this the same as Facebook chat that people were looking for?
Interesting article.
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April 25, 2015 ↔ 13 comments
How to Use FaceBook Messenger on Mac OS X via Messages App
Paul Horowitz
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Facebook Messenger in Mac OS X Facebook Messenger is a popular means
of communicating, but the Mac doesn’t have a dedicated Facebook
messaging app like the iPhone or Android does… or does it!?! Indeed,
you can use Facebook Messenger to message friends from OS X, and in
moments you can set up the Mac Messages app to function as a Facebook
Messenger client in OS X.
Using Facebook Messenger from the Mac is really quite simple, but it’s
entirely separate from configuring Facebook sharing from the Mac
<http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/25/set-up-facebook-mac-os-x/>, so if you
have done one but not the other, you’d need to complete both to have
the full Facebook functions of sharing, posting, and messaging
available to you in OS X.
How to Add Facebook Messenger to Messages in OS X
This basically turns your Messages app into a full fledged Mac
Facebook Messenger client, you’ll be set up in just a few seconds with
these instructions:
1. Open the Messages app on the Mac if you haven’t done so yet
Mac Messages icon
2. Pull down the “Messages” menu and choose “Add Account…”
Add an account to Messages for Facebook
3. From the message account screen, choose “Other messages account…”
and click on “Continue”
Add Facebook Chat to Mac Messages app
4. Pull down the menu next to “Account Type” and select ‘Jabber’ from
the list
5. In “Account Name” enter your Facebook account user name as
follows: yourusern...@chat.facebook.com
<mailto:yourusern...@chat.facebook.com> (a Facebook username is
whatever your Facebook profile URL is, for example:
‘www.facebook.com/your_name_here’
<http://www.facebook.com/your_name_here%E2%80%99> the username
would be “your_name_here” and the account name would then be
your_name_h...@chat.facebook.com
<mailto:your_name_h...@chat.facebook.com>)
6. Enter your Facebook account password in the password field, this
is the same one you use to login to Facebook from the web or the apps
Add Facebook chat for Facebook messenger support in Mac OS X
Messages app
7. Ignore all other settings and choose “Create” – this will setup
Facebook messaging client and in a moment you’ll see your Facebook
Friends list populate as a buddy list, complete with friend names
and friend profile pictures
Facebook Messenger friends buddy list in Messages app of OS X
8. Message anyone in the list as usual, the conversations are going
through Facebook Messenger
Facebook messenger in Mac OS X Messages app
If you’re on a Mac, the ability to have Facebook Messenger
conversations right in the Messages app of OS X is really quite nice,
the conversations will appear alongside other text messages
<http://osxdaily.com/2014/12/17/send-receive-text-messages-mac-os-x-sms-relay/>
and iMessages, Google Chat, Yahoo Messenger, or AOL / AIM communications.
Once you have Facebook Messenger added to Messages, you will be
automatically logged into Facebook Messenger when the Messages app
opens. To log out of Facebook Messenger in Messages, simply pull down
the “Messages” menu item and choose “Log out of chat.facebook.com
<http://chat.facebook.com>” – similarly, you can log in that way as well.
You can access the Facebook Friends buddy list at any time from the
“Windows” menu item in Messages app, where you can also set your
status to be online or offline, or away.
Facebook Messenger friends list in Mac Messages app
This certainly beats having a web browser window open to Facebook.com
<http://Facebook.com> on a Mac, and if you have set up Facebook posts
and sharing in OS X
<http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/25/set-up-facebook-mac-os-x/> you now
have much of the Facebook functionality right in OS X without having
to go to the website to talk to friends, share stuff, or post status
updates.
What if you don’t have Messages for OS X? All modern Macs should, but
if you’re using an older version of Mac system software that has the
iChat app instead, don’t worry, you can also use Facebook chat in
iChat <http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/15/how-to-facebook-chat-in-ichat/>
too. The configuration and setup process is a little bit different,
but the protocol is the same as is the ability to have a full
conversation with your Facebook buddies. So, whatever your version of
OS X on whatever your Mac, you’ll be Facebooking. Good for you. And
no, if Facebook has been blocked on the network or hosts file
<http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/21/block-facebook/>, this will not bypass it.
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13 responses
1.
Joseph
April 25, 2015
Isn’t this functionality going away on April 30?
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
2.
Dan G.
April 25, 2015
Unfortunately you can only enjoy this ability for 5 more days. The
service is being deprecated on 4/30/2015:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat
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Paul
April 25, 2015
Wow what a bummer, I guess the web app or iOS app will have to do!
3.
Josh
April 25, 2015
Good tip, but there are some other (quite possibly, better)
options too.
Standalone Mac app: http://www.goofyapp.com
Facebook also has a web app that works just as well:
https://www.messenger.com/
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mark
April 25, 2015
Goofy is only for Yosemite, so thats a no no here.
4.
Ryan
April 26, 2015
Glad I read the comments before I sat down to do this. I’m new to
Mac and was surprised and slightly disappointed to see no
Facebook/Instagram app support.
5.
Dee W
April 27, 2015
This did not work for me.
6.
april j.
April 27, 2015
if security is a concern of yours, you shouldn’t be using fb chat,
anyway! for the love of god, use a messenger with
end-to-end-encryption, like adium (otr). (on your idevice, you
could be using something like threema or telegram.)
7.
Kjetil Haugen
May 5, 2015
Still works nicely as far as I can see.
8.
Kevin
May 9, 2015
Contrary to previous comments, FB hasn’t closed this portal down.
It still works as of May 10th.
9.
Vive
May 13, 2015
I’ve used it but doesn’t work correctly with many participants of
the chat. Now I’m using this: http://fbmacmessenger.rsms.me, works
perfectly :)
10.
viaccess2
May 26, 2015
wow i love it
still working 26 May it is very cool
11.
This
June 1, 2015
This doesn’t work (anymore?). Connection unexpectedly closed,
please try again later.
As mentioned above, facebook have removed this functionality.
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