Facebook has recently added a chat option for the BlackBerry app on their end. The Facebook for BlackBerry app doesn’t support chat as of yet, but it is a sign of things to come in the future.

Facebook for BlackBerry v1.8 which has been pushed out to select Beta Zone members, is reportedly much faster than v1.7, but currently does not have the chat option either. The chance that chat will be added to v1.8 before it comes out of beta is slim to none. The chat option will most likely be available in v2.0 which will most likely come with BlackBerry 6 in the fall.

Hopefully users will have the option to turn chat on and off because it could become quite a nuisance otherwise. If you can’t wait until the BlackBerry app supports Facebook Chat, you can download a third-party IM client such as beejive, Nimbuzz, or IM+ to get your fix for the meantime. Personally, I do not use Facebook Chat, so I haven’t tested it on any of those clients.

[Via: BBLeaks, BlackBerryForums]