Why don't people use ICQ anymore?

[Howard]

It's still better than other clients in many ways.

 

[DumbGuy]

too many buttons, too much crap to look at.

 

[badet77]

For one thing they have a lot of ads now... it's annoying

 

[Eli]

I do.. although the older versions are better.

 

[00Jones]

MSN, Aim, and YAhoo are better.

 

[Spencer278]

42105431045424115 my ICQ number

 

[geno]

too clunky

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

porn spam every five minutes.

 

[TuffGirl]

I still use it, albeit on Trillian. I have an uber low number too.

 

[fatbaby]

Originally posted by: TheBoyBlunder
porn spam every five minutes.

that and its harder to memorize the icq #s ever since they went to 7 digits.

Also, in order to communicate with other people, you must speak their language (aim/irc)

 

[paruhd0x]

AIM has more ads, I hate the freaking animated image directly smack dab at the top of the buddy list. With ICQ you can patch the program and remove ALL ads (don't ask me how, I'm not going to tell you.) The only reason I would ever use AIM with their client is to chat with people on mobile phones through SMS.

ICQ > AIM always, too bad most of the sheep use AIM.

 

[Anubis]

so much spam

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: 00Jones
MSN, Aim, and YAhoo are better.

How so?

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: TheBoyBlunder
porn spam every five minutes.

I get that with MSN too.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Anubis
so much spam

Spam??

I've been on ICQ for like.. years(ICQ# 8235397).. and can count all the spam messages I've gotten on 1 hand.

 

[fatbaby]

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
AIM has more ads, I hate the freaking animated image directly smack dab at the top of the buddy list. With ICQ you can patch the program and remove ALL ads (don't ask me how, I'm not going to tell you.) The only reason I would ever use AIM with their client is to chat with people on mobile phones through SMS.

ICQ > AIM always, too bad most of the sheep use AIM.

My aim has NO ads at all. And i didn't pay the $5 for that aim+ crap either (nor did i steal it).

 

[Anubis]

8235397

i still have an actie account

6955996

i was on before you. back in like 99. if i urn iton now ill have 10 crap messages in 5 min.

 

[dighn]

it's a bloated pos

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Anubis
8235397

i still have an actie account

6955996

i was on before you. back in like 99. if i urn iton now ill have 10 crap messages in 5 min.

No, you weren't. I used to have a 6-digit number.

 

[GregGreen]

hmm
cant remember if mine was 6 or 7 digits
but it started with 103 nad this was back like pentium 100 era

 

[BCYL]

I beat all of you... my ICQ number is:
32xxxx (6 digits)

And it is still active (I use it everyday)...

 

[SKORPI0]

Still use mine for about 7 years.

 

[SuepaFly]

Mine used to be 6 digits then I accidently deleted it and got a 7 digit one. Doh. I still use it.

The problem is that the world fell into the AOL instant messager thing, because they thought it was the only one. Now if I ever want to talk to anyone, its always AIM, sometimes MSN messenger. They win.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: BCYL
I beat all of you... my ICQ number is:
32xxxx (6 digits)

And it is still active (I use it everyday)...

Ha! - my IQ is way lower than that, it's 2 digits.

 

[Mucho]

I got sick of the spaming and switched to Yahoo.