If a service doesn’t have a way for me to support it directly, and isn’t depending on my support, I’m going to be very wary of depending on it. -- From "2011 The Year the Free Ride Died" on ReadWriteCloud
Apparently Adium attempts to use Safari in some way, shape, or form to initial authorize itself to Facebook to connect to Facebook chat. However, if you already have Facebook cookies from a previous session sitting in Safari, Adium goes in to a never-ending loop of authorizing Adium to use Facebook auth.
The trick around this is to simply just clear your Safari cookies for Facebook and then attempt to connect to Facebook chat via Adium again.
I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and after yesterday my infatuation with his movies still continues. Let's just say The Social Network profoundly reinforced some of my core beliefs while at the same time being my type of movie - dark and complex.