issues: facebook plugin

[Dave Warren]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:37:35 -0500, Jeffrey Steben <zero3187 at gmail.com>
was claimed to have wrote:

>Dear Pidgin Support,
>
>I'm not sure if you know how to solve my problem because it's with a third
>party plugin but I figured I would email you guys and ask anyways. I have
>been using the facebook plugin for the linux version of pidgin for a while
>and I love that pidgin can do everything that AIM did on my windows machine
>but better. My only issue is now when I use pidgin and try to instant
>message a facebook friend it comes up with an error within the chat window
>that says, "you are not permitted to do that" and will not let me message
>them.
>
>I was just wondering if you would happen to know a solution to my issue. If
>not could you possibly steer me in the direction of where I could find a
>solution?
>
>I really appreciate the help and hope to hear back soon

Stop using the Facebook plugin and instead use Facebook's XMPP
interface: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=16739