Thanks for your response.

I have first of all tried to log in via the widget. When i clicked on it, it sent me to the web browser to my facebook account. I tried to set-up the account through the desktop menu, but it just came back the with message of no network connection available.

I have therefore followed the steps again, and the X-Terminal is showing screen is showing the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libcurl3 is already the newest version.
0 upgrade, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded

Is this what i should have expected or has something gone wrong?