Today, I installed the Facebook Plugin for Pidgin. Pretty basic, just downloaded the .deb file and double clicked on it.

One caveat was that I had the Pidgin MusicTracker plugin enabled and this caused Pidgin to crash when I set up my Facebook account. The MusicTracker can be disabled for selected acocunts and it must be disabled for Facebook. The solution was to disable MusicTracker, setup the facebook account and go back re-enable MusicTracker and disabling it for Facebook.