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Why don't people use ICQ anymore?

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Dasm...i'm on 8 digits, haven't used my ICQ account in about 2-3 years but I still remember the number!

49149784


Confused
 
It's been a POS for years. It's the most ridiculously bloated software in the world, after realplayer of course. I stopped using it when I was tired of creeping instability from them adding an insane amount of "features". Huge crappy software. Back in its heyday it was great. Now it's garbage.
 
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.
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Most sheep huh? I don't know about you, I actually prefer to be able to talk to my friends, and not like the 1 or 2 geeks that I know that use ICQ.

That said, I use Trillian.
 
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)...
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I beat you! 319XXX (6 digits). My original account number was 2. 😉

I still use it through trillian. It was nice in the beginning, thought it had potential. Unfortunately everyone has aol and I wanted to chat with friends so I had to add aol... It's really all the same crap.
 
IM services are a communications tool. If everyone I know uses AIM, being different & using ICQ would be rather self defeating.

Bottom line is the people I want to talk to use AIM.

Viper GTS
 
Because everyone else uses AIM, and although you can now send/receive messages to AIM members with it, it's still easier to just use AIM. You still have to take into account that not everyone has the version that works with ICQ, too.


In other words, more of my friends use AIM, so why would I use ICQ and not be able to talk to them?
 
ICQ bloated itself to death:

- ditch the ugly flower power
- ditch the retarded added features
- streamline the interface
- centralize the properties into a main screen that makes sense
- streamline the message windows so that you arn't wasting tons of space

If ICQ did that, they could get back where they used to be.
 
Spam, never has been very stable, too much stuff for such little use, and AIM does everything most of us want or need, and do it better through multiple firewalls.
 
Because there are much better alternatives now. Back in the day when it was a small company based out of what, Israel, was it good. It was streamlined, unbloated, etc before AOL got ahold of it. Actually it started getting a little bloated before then.
Who wants to remember numbers for accounts?

Hey guy's whats your online sn's?

John: 90092173
Sarah: 328971023
Bill: 03267191
Joey: 46102943

And when everyone else you know prefers and uses AIM, why bother using ICQ at all?
 
Originally posted by: skace
ICQ bloated itself to death:

- ditch the ugly flower power
- ditch the retarded added features
- streamline the interface
- centralize the properties into a main screen that makes sense
- streamline the message windows so that you arn't wasting tons of space

If ICQ did that, they could get back where they used to be.
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I haven't touched ICQ in years for those reasons. It just wasn't ever worth putting up with.
 
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