For years iChat has been the best bet for a instant messaging program on OS X. At least in my opinion, the old Adium lacked in many features, and the new one still lacks some. These are excused by one simple feature that iChat is no where near beating. Facebook Chat support.

Facebook chat is possibly the ugliest thing ever invented. It plagues the bottom part of your Facebook page, blocking links, obstructing pokes, and making me piss blood I am so angry. I mean why in the name of all that is good and holy in the world of technology would Facebook ever think that something like a pop-up chat bar at the bottom of the screen would be anywhere near a good idea? Honestly, I have nothing that relates to any kind of clue as to why they did this. I just know it pisses me off. The chat interface when a window is opened takes up about 400 pixels. So depending on what computer your using to look at Facebook, the chat window may eat anywhere from 20% of your screen to 100%.

Seriously though, this chat interface is possibly one of the worst I have ever seen. Even irc was better planned when it came out in the 1990’s. This completely obtrusive chat window keeps popping up and blocking me from clicking on one of those adds that has the half naked girl on it! Cause I am totally interested in womens underwear Mark Zuckerburg. Yeah that’s totally the case there buddy, you got it completely right. Anyway, back to my point. There is a reason why Facebook is not growing as fast as it was before the remodeling; and that reason is called Facebook Chat.

However, there is a solution now to this hideous thing that makes us wanna puke when we get on Facebook. Its called Adium. Adium just added Facebook Chat support in their multi-protocol instant messenger client. This means that we can still chat on Facebook, but not only is it prettier, but it also gets logged. So now your Facebook chats can be read later in the day, and you can reminisce about the cute girl that you talked to for five hours that day. So all Mac users rejoice! We are free from the tyrants grasp once again!

Adium can be downloaded at: http://www.adiumx.com/
Facebook can be turned off by pressing the little red circle at the top of this window. Please do this now.