Why don't people use ICQ anymore?

[Sid59]

it's not the late 90s no more.

 

All of you that have complaints, have your heads firmly planted in your ass, and on a different planet.

What kind of geeks are you if you can't get rid of ads?
Use an alternative client to access their network, it works extremely well if you put in more than 2 minutes to set it up and configure it.

As soon as AIM goes to a pay service, you may chime a different tune.

 

[sillymofo]

ICQs, what's ICQs?

 

[Cerb]

...but if you use an alternative client, why bother...I don't even know anyone on ICQ anymore.
I don't use AOL AIM for AIM.

 

[Xenon]

Neat my icq number still works.

ICQ#292943

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Got a friend of mine with an ICQ just over 10,000. He said he'd give it to me if he could remember the password. Heh.

 

[Tetsuo]

I don't use it cuz noone else I know uses it (much)
97855501 if you want to msg me

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Xenon
Neat my icq number still works.

ICQ#292943

Want to give it to me?

 

[Shawn]

because it's a POS. who wants to remember a stupid # when you can have a s/n like with all the other services. I still use ICQ but only through trillian.....

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: SammySon
All of you that have complaints, have your heads firmly planted in your ass, and on a different planet.

What kind of geeks are you if you can't get rid of ads?
Use an alternative client to access their network, it works extremely well if you put in more than 2 minutes to set it up and configure it.

As soon as AIM goes to a pay service, you may chime a different tune.

If AIM ever goes to a pay service, there are still the two other messaging programs inferior to AIM yet superior to ICQ that are popular among a lot of people. ICQ is the Prodigy/Compuserve of messaging programs - it had it's day in the sun.

 

[AdamSnow]

I still use ICQ... I only use ICQ... I only use MSN sometimes, only because certain friends wont use ICQ for some reason... (boo)

ICQ = 4081925... been on since like Grade 9, same number, still use it every day.

 

[GeneValgene]

check out a messaging app called miranda.

the interface looks a lot like ICQ97-99ish...and it supports AIM, MSN, ICQ, IRC, and more. been using it at work for the past month and have no complaints yet.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Eli
I do.. although the older versions are better.

i agree that the old versions are better. however, a majority of the ppl i talk to most use AIM, thus i use AIM. back in the day when i used to frequent yahoo chat... alots of ppl overseas use ICQ. i am guessing they still do. i hear that lots of ppl overseas use MSN now too.

 

[Extrarius]

I use it every day, but recently I've been using ventrillo to talk to my friends. ICQ has essentialy replaced email and ventrillo is a much faster way to get 'instant messages'.

 

[nativesunshine]

I still do.

can't remember my icq number offhand tho. oh well.

 

[brtspears2]

I use it once in a blue moon. All my friends and people I need to talk to are on AIM anyways.

1620707 ...those were the days.