Facebook chat no longer stays in "group"

[Erik Max Francis]

Dave Warren wrote:
> Whatever happened is new behaviour for Facebook; I've used Facebook's 
> lists feature since I started on Facebook a couple years ago and until 
> recently contacts always showed up in groups. It stopped while I was 
> travelling, I haven't touched any privacy settings since then, and I've 
> always been unavailable to Facebook chat with a certain group of people 
> who don't use it responsibly right from when I first started using it.
> 
> I can't imagine why Facebook would have made this change, although it 
> might be due to the fact that they're automatically creating lists and 
> users might have whined that it creates "duplicates", but this is a 
> total shot in the dark.

Yes, the forced group name is a new change (I saw it last week or so), 
just switched on recently (what was it, last week?).  Facebook's online 
documentation for connecting Facebook Chat with XMPP clients (not 
Pidgin-specific ones) have screenshots that don't show the forced 
"Facebook Friends" group name, so even their help pages haven't updated.

I don't know _why_ they did it either, but if it was a deliberate 
choice, I would guess something along the lines of what you suggest.

Like you said, unfortunately, nothing Pidgin can do about it.

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