It appears upgrading to telepathy-gabble 0.17.5 has fixed the problem for me.
It may be worth getting this update into the stable release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1204588 Title: Empathy shows numbers instead of names for some Facebook contacts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1204588/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs