Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin
Google Code has published (created? sponsored? I'm not sure how that works) a plugin for the Pidgin IM aggregator client that works with Facebook chat. Once it's installed, you can add your Facebook account as a new account, and it works just like every other chat network.
This is great as far as I'm concerned. I use Pidgin and am not a fan of Facebook chat (or web-based chat in general). Some of my friends use Facebook but not regular IM.
Prof: “I am not responding to a Facebook message!”
I admit I'm usually amused by articles like this:
More (Unintentionally) Funny Student E-Mail Messages to Professors
But check out this quote:
"A student who didn’t show up for class on Monday morning just Facebooked me to ask where the class was. I am not responding to a Facebook message! Cripes!"
...um. This just makes me splutter in incomprehension.
Why on earth would a professor bother to set up a Facebook account and then refuse to use it to communicate with students? Yes, it's possible that she set it up to network with friends and colleagues, but I'm willing to bet at least a dollar that that isn't the case here. If it were, she wouldn't consider text transmitted via Facebook's server to be somehow inferior to text transmitted via the campus e-mail server.
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