Best type of Instant Messenger?

[TDR]

Voice your opinions here!
Whats the best type of Instant Messenger service?
ICQ, AIM, YAHOO, or MsN?

My vote goes for AIM. I like every feature except the warning feature. Not that I get warned to much ,but on some occasions I get warned from people that just say hi. And I reply and I get warned.

So what do you think?

[Marc]

Welcome, TDR. The "warning" feature on AIM - talk about pointless.

My favorite is ICQ. I just like it - I am someone who likes all the features - it's the grandaddy of IM's. AIM is close behind, but I hate that button ad and it's too newbie-focused. MSN is also good, but lacks users and features.

[iFroggy]

I use AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, and MSN Messenger. I like Yahoo! Messenger the best, with AIM being a close second, followed by MSN and then ICQ.

[Marc]

Patrick, what makes you like Yahoo! Messenger so much? I personally find it the worst out of ICQ, AIM, and MSN...

[Peck]

I like MSN,ICQ, Yahoo! and finally AOL cause i never used it. What i like about MSN is that it can alert about e-mails and that its Instant. Not like ICQ when u press send it takes some time but MSN is INSTANT.

[Nate]

Although I despise AOL, I use AIM the most cuz my friends and family use it. I also use ICQ.

[iFroggy]

ICQ is sooooooooo slow to me... AIM is quicker... but, Yahoo! has new features, and I like how it is tied in with Yahoo!, which I use quite a bit.

[Wedge231]

I have ICQ and AIM. I would use ICQ more but none of my friends have it so I use AIM alot more.

[JakeLitwicki]

They ALL SUCK.

ICQ is too slow and tedius, very buggy, and a hackers dream.

AIM is part of AOL, enough said right there. Hence the name: AOL Instant Messenger

Yahoo is just like MSN Messenger which is the single most annoying software program in existence.

Just my opinion(s) :)

P.S. I use AIM and ICQ anyway :)

[Marc]

Then what is your solution if none of these work? :)

[JakeLitwicki]

To begin a life of seclusion and silence in which you never socialize with, or make human contact in your mere 77 years of existence.

actually..I have no idea

[Wedge231]

LOL. That was very funny. I use AIM all the time since all my friends are computer illiterate and dunno what the others are.

[iFroggy]

LOL! You guys are too much. :)

[lmanchur.]

Well, I'm getting into this discussion kinda late, but I thought I'd throw in my two cents! :)

I tried Yahoo! Messenger for a few months a year ago or so, and did not like it... I don't have any friends that use it (by "friends", I mean people I actually know in real life) and I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to meet people -- I never did.

MSN is really cool!... All my friends have it so I use it a lot, but I really like the e-mail alerts -- that's really cool!

ICQ, though, is the BEST. Most of my r/l friends have it and nearly all my e-friends have it. PLUS, it's better than MSN or Y! to meet new people.

I have never tried AOLIM 'cuz no I know in r/l uses it, so I have no need to try it!

[Marc]

Originally posted by SC-Lee
I have never tried AOLIM 'cuz no I know in r/l uses it, so I have no need to try it!
You must be in an odd situation, because AIM is used by most high schoolers and regular Internet people. Anyone who uses AOL has AIM, so it has a lot of users...

[iFroggy]

AIM can be very annoying, but I have to have it... I know soooooooooo many people on it and plus everyday I meet someone new that has AIM.

[Wedge231]

AIM has got to be the most popular one considering you can reach AOL users on it. ICQ is big too but I still have not met anyone who uses it outside of the internet.

[lmanchur.]

Originally posted by M. James
You must be in an odd situation, because AIM is used by most high schoolers and regular Internet people. Anyone who uses AOL has AIM, so it has a lot of users... [/B]

Well, remember, I live up here in Manitoba, Canada. AOL is not the major ISP in Canada. Sympatico, SprintCanada, ExpressVu, Rogers@Home, and Shaw@Home are the major ISP. AOL does have a Canadian establishment in AOL Canada, but I know no one around here who is suscribed to it... definetly no one in my home town.

ICQ and MSN are the popular ones among my friends.

[iFroggy]

Didn't you say you live in Smalltown, Manitoba? AOL doesn't care about any small towns in Canada! (Another Canada joke, Lee :D)... really they should... because with all that cold weather, you have to stay inside... and do whatelse... go online! :D

[lmanchur.]

Exactly, Patrick! he he :)

...but FYI, we DID have a -45 degree celsius day (I know you Americans are so stubborn and haven't progressed with the rest of the world to the metric system like the REST of the world, but if you can't do the conversion, -45 degrees celsius is really darn cold).... HOWEVER, that was the coldest day in decades and a typical late December or January & Februrary day on the Canadian praries would be between -10 and -35 degrees (including windchill)... you learn to live with it, and counter it with going on the net all day!... that's what I'll be doing for the rest of my Christmas break... :)

[iFroggy]

Metric System!!! Jump in a frozen lake Lee! :D

[Edited by iFroggy on 12-24-2000 at 12:30 PM]

[Marc]

Sometimes I wander about you two... :D

[lmanchur.]

...it's all good fun, Marc! :)

[Edited by SC-Lee on 12-24-2000 at 11:08 AM]