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Facebook and Hotmail working together.

February 22nd, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

If you use hotmail and the Windows Live features that are offered with it you got a nice surprise yesterday, the ability to Facebook message your friends through your hotmail account. Now in the hotmail inbox you are able to chat not only with any MSN messenger friends but also your Facebook friends as well. The big thing is when this was actually announced about 2.5 million people connected their Facebook accounts to with Windows Live. Now there were about 6 regions in the world that could already do this but now it is worldwide. Now it makes the total number of people linking Facebook and Live to over 20 million.

It is very simple to set up. First link your Facebook account to Windows Live and just check the box that states chat with my Facebook friends in messenger. This will give you the ability to start chatting with Facebook friend’s right through hotmail by clicking on their Facebook contact name. Sometimes you do have to log out and then log back in to get it to work for the first time but once it’s up you can have all the chats you need in one place. This is a new convenient feature for all of you hotmail users out there.

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