Facebook buddies not showing as online

[V S Rawat]

On 11/30/2010 12:24 AM India Time, _Stuart Martin_ wrote:

> Running 2.7.7 on both XP SP3 and Vista SP2. In both, my facebook buddy
> lists sohw no-one as online, even when I can see them online in
> facebook itself. Pidgin shows my status as online, I am receiving
> facebook notification messages in Pidgin, and refreshing the buddy
> list does not help. Yesterday, one of my duddies appeared as online
> only after I started a chat in Facebook's own chat client.

could you tell how can I link my pidgin to my facebook account that 
uses my gmail id?

Thanks.
--
rawat