Msn messenger is the best messenger

[Kakarot]

aim: easy, fast, best looking client but has annoying ads sometimes.

msn: made by microsoft, not many use it except foreigners imo, and uhhh yea

icq: oldschool chat that nobody uses anymore, long numbers are annoying, ugly interface and overcomplicated

therefore i use aim

 

[Mk]

I use msn, but some of my friends are switching to Google Talk. Any of you used it?

I have it, and one of my friends has it, but no one really uses it that I know of, so no one else is on.

I like iChat (!), by Apple, I use it for GoogleTalk and AIM. I use MSN because some of my friends are on it, but don't like it at all .

 

[whozum]

ICQ has the advantage that it's not a Microsoft product. (and it's not an AOL product!)

Actually AOL bought out mirabilis a few years ago, so it is an AOL product.

 

[loseyourname]

Yeah, iChat is fine. It's nice and small and discrete, doesn't have any ads, easy to use, and supports multiple networks. That said, I never use IM programs these days, except to talk to my roommate when I don't want to yell (she uses Trillian, finally renouncing the Dead AIM she always used). I haven't even seen an ICQ interface since the 90s.

 

[Hurkyl]

noooooooo!

 

[Townsend]

noooooooo!

What's eating you?

 

[Moonbear]

I like iChat (!), by Apple, I use it for GoogleTalk and AIM. I use MSN because some of my friends are on it, but don't like it at all .

I have iChat, but never use it because I don't know anyone else who has it. I had AIM years ago, and gave up on it because it never seemed to work right (my friend and I would both be online emailing each other back and forth, and stupid AIM wouldn't show either of us as online...rapid-fire email works almost as well). I know more people who use MSN, but it seems every time I go to use it, they've changed something and I need to upgrade again, so I gave up on that too. I have Yahoo messenger installed, and it's okay. I used it once to chat with Cronxeh. I guess none of them work very well when I don't bother turning them on. I've never grown very fond of any of those IM things...the limit on number of characters you can type at a time is annoying; I can't communicate with just one sentence at a time. It's only a little faster than just emailing back and forth (unless you have a server that prevents you from checking for new email more frequently than once a minute...had an account set up like that ages ago).

 

[Evo]

aim: easy, fast, best looking client but has annoying ads sometimes.

msn: made by microsoft, not many use it except foreigners imo, and uhhh yea

icq: oldschool chat that nobody uses anymore, long numbers are annoying, ugly interface and overcomplicated

therefore i use aim

Strange, AOL bought ICQ, the original ICQ is now AIM. I wonder what this ICQ is? I refused to use ICQ after AOL bought it, as many did. So, what you know as AIM, is what I used as ICQ.

AOL sharpens ICQ ambitions
Published: June 16, 1999, 11:50 PM PDT

A year ago, America Online paid $287 million for ICQ, a product with 12 million users but no revenue. A year later, its popularity has nearly trebled, but it's still not clear whether ICQ was a good buy.

ICQ, instant messaging and chat software created by four Israeli 20-somethings, had achieved cult-like status among users around the world when AOL snapped it up

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-227245.html?legacy=cnet

I don't use any instant messaging programs. I only signed up for ICQ because one of the people involved kept asking. I hated the constant interruptions and kept it turned off unless someone nagged me to turn it on for awhile.

 

[JamesU]

I like MSN IM. Much better than AIM, which has a crappy interface (BTW) and AOL is just bad alltogether

 

[moose]

I hate msn messenger, the games on there suck too. They try to include way too many graphical aspects. When I want to play chess, i don't want to wait for a while just for it to load and then turn out to look like complete crap anyway.

AIM's interface is simple, does the job. Everything is there, while in msn's interface, a lot of features that I use are missing, it somehow works worse too.

BTW, I use AIMutation.

EDIT: Honestly, I like trillian, because I can talk to my msn buddies...but I think if everyone used aim, it would be the best. Google talk may turn out to be good too.

 

[loseyourname]

I just installed Adium last night and it looks pretty good. It's customizable in pretty much every way I want it to be, allowing me to use a completely minimalist interface with no icons, no smilies, and no graphics - just text and a status light. (Of course, if you like that other stuff, it let's you use them.) The advantage over iChat is that it supports more networks and can be customized in more ways. The disadvantage - and this seems to be a disadvantage with all these open-source IM programs - is that it doesn't support video or audio chat, but I can always use SILC for that.