The conversation, merger and partnership of platforms is very common in Social Media Marketing as we use to come across different types of happening on every third and forth day. Recently, Facebook and AOL went into partnership with each other in AOL’s instant messaging platform, AIM. And the next step of sequence is desktop version of Face book chat available everywhere even on desktop applications.

Now on Facebook chat can be integrated with any favorite instant chat messenger used by a person and they can remain connected with friends even they are not on the Facebook page. This has been made possible by the help of an open messaging XMPP Jabber protocol that is supported by most instant messaging softwares including iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda and Google Talk as well.

And its functioning in itself is very simple and what you need to do is just to connect your Facebook account with your instant messaging client on your desktop and you are ready for Chat. More you can chat with your friends. However, this desktop chat is lacking in crea ting a separate friend list and you will have to go back to Facebook account to do so. So give a try to Facebook chat and send immediate feedback response to Facebook.