Have facebook friends in a separate group

[Michael Secord]

Just so it's out there for everyone, when you create a new group in the 
FB chat on their site, you can click the "amend" link that comes after 
the chat group name, it will bring up all of your friends and fan pages, 
and you can just click them, and then save the changes, instead of 
dragging them one by one into the group :)

-Michael

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: Have facebook friends in a separate group
From: Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net>
To: W.H. Kalpa Pathum <callkalpa at gmail.com>
Date: 3/30/2010 1:39 PM

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:49 AM, W.H. Kalpa Pathum<callkalpa at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I enabled Facebook chat in pidgin using XMPP according to the
>> instruction provided at the news page of pidgin.im. Earlier I uses the
>> third party plugin to have facebook chat in pidgin and there my
>> facebook friends were showed under a separate group called "Faecbook".
>> But when I moved to this XMPP, all my facebook friends are shown in
>> the "Buddies" group mixed wiith my other buddies. I want to have my
>> facebook friends as a separate group. How can I get this done?
>
> In this case the buddies are not in any specific group, so Pidgin uses
> the default of "Buddies."  It is not possible to change this default
> value apart from editing the source code and rebuilding.
>
> The only way I know of to put these buddies in a different group is to
> log into chat on www.facebook.com, create a Friend List, and drag each
> buddy into it one by one.
>
> --Mark
>
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