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MSN gone the way of ICQ?

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I found it's more an age thing. The older people get the less they use an instant messenger.

I use Digsby to consolidate everything. But it's really just out of habit as there's only about 2 people I talk to. The rest I use my mobile and call them.
 
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: venkman
Originally posted by: villageidiot111
MSN was always more popular than AIM in the rest of the world. AIM only dominated primarily in North America.
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It seems to me the rest of the world is a little slow in figuring out how to use programs that are not pre-installed on the computer. thats why the EU had to go after msft for anti-trust violations for bundling IE. 😛
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Right, you're using AOL software and we're the slow ones. BTW I don't know about Vista but MSN doesn't come with Windows 7, it comes with the Windows Live Essentials, a separate downloadable package.
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The IM client was much lighter and faster than the MSN client (back in the day, dunno about today but there are multi-network stuff anyways). Either way, I think we can agree both are better than Yahoo Messenger, whose users base is mostly pedophiles. 😛
 
Yahoo & GTalk for me primarily. I've always hated AIM, though I use it for the like 2 people that I know are on it. Never used ICQ.
 
I mostly just use Google chat now, though I used to use AIM all the time. I have an AIM account linked to the Google chat thing, but for the most part everyone else is using Google too so it's not really necessary.

I never used MSN or knew anybody who did. I'm surprised it was ever considered a valid means of IM. I guess it's one of those weird foreigner things, like soccer.
 
I think the addition of facebook chat kind of killed other clients for a lot of people. I remember when that came out hardly anyone else was on IM, but have slowly filtered back. Many use both now. I've pretty much always used AIM for most stuff. I guess because we started with AOL internet and it was just easier to keep the IM client afterward. However I refuse to upgrade to the newer ones and am happy to keep my 5.9 version.

MSN I only used for a bit to talk to some european guys. At one point I joined a group that only used Yahoo messenger, man that was a pile of shit. Never used ICQ though.
 
Mainly use MSN for work and a little AIM. Communicator is fine for inter-office chatting, but the others are great for vendors or third parties.
 
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: Colt45
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: Colt45
My list seems about 50/50. Of course everyone pro runs a multi protocol client anyways.
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I've never found a multi protocol client that wasn't a steaming pile of dog shit.
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pidgin
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Dog shit 😉
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then stick with whatever bloatware client you are currently using.
 
I use only MSN but I use the pidgen client. Got tired of MS's bloat crap. Every freaken day a new update forcing me to reboot then the program would use an extra 100MB of ram. Came to a point where even with 3.5GB of ram I'd start getting memory issues with too many chat windows going on at once.
 
Originally posted by: venkman
Originally posted by: villageidiot111
MSN was always more popular than AIM in the rest of the world. AIM only dominated primarily in North America.
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It seems to me the rest of the world is a little slow in figuring out how to use programs that are not pre-installed on the computer. thats why the EU had to go after msft for anti-trust violations for bundling IE. 😛
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MSN hasn't come standard on computers for about 6 years.

It used to be bundled as 'Windows Messenger', but that client became incompatible a very long time ago.

 
Originally posted by: coldmeat
Neither AIM or ICQ ever caught on here.
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Shens. For the longest time, ICQ was all there was. Yes... even in Canada. 😉

I use Pigin so I can see my ICQ, MSN, etc. friends all at the same time with one app. And my two contacts that are Canadians?.... they're using ICQ. 😛
 
digsby :thumbsup: I don't even care what people use anymore since I can just be logged onto all of them.

ICQ was the client most people I played games with online used.
AIM was pretty much the only chat client most people I knew from school used.

Now it's a mix of AIM, GChat, and Facebook Chat.
 
any client that doesn't let you send offline messages = t3h sucks! Unless shit has changed in the past few years neither AIM or MSN allow this. Yahoo's had it for what 10 years now? lol
 
I just use pidgin and log into them all (aim, msn, gmail). I only talk with a few people though. I do really think that facebook has changed things because so many people now rely on it. Some just log onto facebook and begin chatting.
 
I didn't realize people used the Facebook chat, but all in the past week an old roommate suddenly messaged me on it, my sister mentioned using it, and now people in this thread are saying they use it. I guess I don't stay logged into Facebook all day like I do with Gmail so my first inclination is to use the chat in Gmail instead.
 
I used trillian for a while, but the trillian pro thing kind of annoyed me, and it was getting bloated.

Now I use Pidgin or Kopete. But nobody I know really uses IMs anymore, like myspace it was kind of a high school thing. I've ended up using gmail and facebook chat as often as aim.

I was big on icq back in the 90s when I was a member of a few video game clans.
 
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