AIM or MSN messenger or ICQ?

[AccruedExpenditure]

Of course you must consider the nutmeg before on embarking on such a voyage, weather bearing of course.

 

[gittyup]

AIM for personal and Jabber work work.

 

[randomlinh]

AIM, used to use icq.. still like it if it weren't for all the bloat. the main thing would be the history list, and the ability to send messages when the user is offline.. nice touches.

 

[SUOrangeman]

When I'm not using the JAVA versions of AIM or ICQ, I use Trillian.

-SUO

 

[cherrytwist]

Quite frankly, I don't care. They all are the same animal. I don't prefer one to another. But like most people, I want to chat with my friends online. It's incredibly frustrating when 3 different friends use 3 different chat clients.

Lately it seems that most people I chat with use AIM so that's what I'm using now. But I'm alienating several RL friends that use MSN Messenger or ICQ.

 

[Jokeram]

was on ICQ for the shortest time.. a few days like 3 years ago, been with Yahoo Messenger ever since.. use AIM once in a while though.

 

[gwlam12]

icq was great a few years ago. now its aim cuz icq is so bloated with options that its so slow now

 

[FriedToast]

ICQ

tried some beastie that did all the chat clients (wasn't Trillian). But it wouldn't let me be invisible. So back to ICQ I went. But I clarify- ICQ 99a. Thought it was bad enough going from 98a to 99a. But now, this 2000 crapola. Pure schlock. Wouldn't touch it w/ a 10-ft. pole. Installed it on my laptop to try it out. Mistake. Yuk yuk and more YUK.

Might have to try AIM. Tried MSN for about 3 seconds and uninstalled it. Yahoo is installed, but I really don't care for it.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Charlie don't chat.

 

[HansHurt]

M$N cause Micro$oft kicks a$$. Viva la M$

 

[randomlinh]

what's this trillian stuff?? lets you use all of them?? hrrrm?? can anyone elaborate?

 

[daveman]

I just use AIM because everyone i chat with has it. I wouldnt really care which one I used.

 

[Helpless]

...used to use PowWow, but ICQ is the only way to go nowadays

 

[randomlinh]

hahaa, i remember powwow!

ewwww.. trillian takes up quite a bit of memory (ok, well, i suppose it makes sense.. running all those chat proggies in one..)

but it loses out on all the fun profiles and away messages

 

[SUOrangeman]

Trillian

-SUO

 

[ProviaFan]

I use MSN, mainly because it's significantly faster than ICQ, and because that's what most all of my friends use (except 1, who never is online anyway). Hey, MSN starts up in less than a second when Windows boots, while ICQ takes over 1 minute to load (at least when I tried it on a system with 64 MB of RAM...maybe if I put 1 GB of RAM in it would load a little faster .

Edit to add P.S.: Another reason I like MSN is because it has a typing indicator, which lets you see when the other person starts to type a message.
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Josh

 

[ace31216]

I use both since some of my friends use aim and some use ICQ. This way i can keep in touch with everyone.

 

[Nerd]

AIM

 

[Paulson]

ICQ + MSN for me....

 

[Demosthenes]

I really don't get a chance to decide what to use, I use whatever everyone else is using.. and that's AIM. 95% of people I know wouldn't even know what an ICQ is, and I wanna be able to chat with all my fine ladies..

 

[mikysee]

I use AIM to chat with friends in US but I use ICQ to chat with friend in Austrailia and Canada.

 

[LAUST]

MSN, it's got the least overhead and is awesome for confrence.

 

[lamplighter]

ICQ 0wnz AIM, just not in America. I do agree that AIM is better for chats but you can always use ICQ chat, and when I go "online" in AIM I can't get anything productive done cause it requires full attention to have talks.

I have 320 online/real life friends, family, biz people, on ICQ, about 35 friends on AIM from when I lived in Jersey, and 7 cousins on MSN.

 

[1967mustangman]

Just Use Trillian you get the best of all of them!

 

[falias]

I go with ICQ even though I admit there is problems with it.