Hey all!

I know there's another thread comparing the Skype and MSN messenger services, but I thought I'd introduce the other IM services out there - ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, etc. and ask you which one(s) you use often and what features do you like overall in your IM program(s) of choice?

instead of answering your question. I'll ask another, why are you so interested in knowing what people use most often. What's the value in the knowledge. Nice that you point out that this thread has been posted over and over again.round

Hi there

I agree completely to what round has to offer. Instead of starting a new topic this could have been included in the thread.

And then shigajet you have not even put any point across. Atleast you must have stated what messanger you are using. What are its pros and con.

One point I differ is questioning the value of knowlege. Value of knowlege cannot be defined and calculated in set parameters. It has a broader meaning and span.

A learning acquired may show the value over a period of time. This learning may help or guid someone to signup or change a service provider

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Thanks for pointing that out. In my first post, I forgot to include my own experiences using an IM service. In the beginning I used ICQ, since it seemed that many friends of mine had an ICQ number. There wasn't anything particularly wrong with the program, except with each new version that came out, it took up more space on my (old) PC. Still, it did the job. After a while I took a long hiatus from the messenger services until recently, when I heard about Skype and MSN Messenger from a few of my friends who are using it. So, slowly but surely, I'm getting back into using an IM service again, but I just want to narrow the choices down to two (at the most).

Basically, if you had to choose an IM service, which would you recommend?

i use yahoo messenger because its fast
I have dialup account
gmail and Msn messenger is not ver fast login but yahoo is ver fast
Yahoo has offline service but google and msn messenger dosent have that
i think yahoo messenger has good interface
but yahoo is ver popular and worms can speard in yahoo messenger very fast and easy
MIRC is not secure ( DCC service must be off )
its file transfer and worms speard with this services
in msn and yahoo and irc and google and icq messenger google messenger is secure
becuase its new and hasnot bug
ICQ Messenger has not good interface but has good pager
i like icq pager its nice and fast and its good for programming

Well, I am pretty sure you knew there were plety of topics such like this one. And it is true: you should have added your own experiences on it.

I use MSN Messenger. It is the most used msg service so far. All my friends and not so friends have an account with MSN. I use Yahoo, Googletalk and AIM but none of my buddies seem to be interested on getting an account overthere...

Cheers!!!

I use MSN Messenger. Most of my friends do too. We find the interface very friendly and we link the style of the program, you never misss a message, it looks so cool, and there are loads of features that you don't get on other IMs. Although it did mean we had to sign up with hotmail first to use it, which totally blows.

i personnaly use yahoo messanger and find it pretty fast and user friendly. Now the new mssr has added voice feature to it.

But use it as messanger only. MSN is bit slow as I have experienced and then there are certain features where yahoo has the edge. For eg offline messages, smilies etc.

As far as skype goes I recommend it for its quality of voice and they least amount of hard disk space it consumes.

I has used ICQ at and REDIFF (India) at certain point but never got hooked to them.

I will always recoomend Yahoo as a messanger.

i have msn and yahoo, IMO they are the best to have yahoo first then msn cuz msn is still behind of cool features.

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