A new desktop application called Social.im lets anyone with a Facebook detail chat with their Facebook connections outside of the browser. It takes your list of Facebook friends and rolls it into an IM buddy list that’s accessible from a desktop client.

Right now, Social.im’s software is only available as a download for Windows users. And it additionally only works with Facebook. Social.im hopes to add other networks like Bebo and hi5 in the future, letting you interact with friends from multiple social networks in one application.

After you download and install the software, a window opens to Facebook's login page. Once you enter your Facebook credentials, Social.im pulls  your friend's names and Facebook avatars into a buddy list. whether your friends have the Social.im application installed, they will seem as available, busy, or

offline, as in any other chat program. Friends who have never logged into Social.im seem in your buddy list with a blue circle.

A toolbar at the bottom of the buddy list keeps a tally of assured Facebook features, like the amount of messages you have unread in your Facebook inbox. whether another data comes in, or whether you receive a Facebook "poke", a toast notification pops up to heads up you to the change in status. It's the same notification sharp you get when one of your friends changes their status.

Social.im was created by Lucas Ryan and Yan-David Erlich, founders of Mogad, Inc. Mogad raised $500,000 last August from angel investors Aydin Senkut, Georges Harik, Hank Barry, and PayPal founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel.