Comments on: What Instant Messaging Client Do You Use? [Poll]

By: amit

amit — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:26:47 +0000

Yahoo & MSN

By: bob

bob — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:42:02 +0000

The pop-up was obviously the one warning that the max amount of choices was two, I got caught out too I use three!

By: Neil Watson

Neil Watson — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:41:32 +0000

I don’t use any. I have never found the need. Occasionally use Skype chat.but at best once a month.

By: marco

marco — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:31:46 +0000

AIM is missing. Anyway, I would love to use another IM client, but there ain’t any other software that supports REAL video and voice chat on the MSN network. So i will probably stick with the big Windows Live Messenger until 2020

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:45:53 +0000

Um. Why isn’t AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) on the list?

Trillian worked lovely and then all of a sudden stopped, and gave me connection issues up the ying/yang. So not anymore, I did like the format though.

Have to check some of these out, maybe I’ll find a new favorite.

By: Sound Of Vision

Sound Of Vision — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:03:01 +0000

I have ICQ, MSN, Gtalk and Y!IM. MSN is my mostly used IM together with Gtalk (not everyone has gmail account) so I voted for those 2.

I use ICQ rarely, but it was my first IM so I kept it because of sentimentality and one person there. It’s just a bit complicated…And I like the look of Y!IM but don’t have many people there and sometimes blocks.

I heard of Digsby and if it supports all other accounts (MSN, Y!IM, Gtalk, ICQ etc) I might download it!
What is important for me with IM clients is that is should be fun and easy to use. I love smilies and themes and nice looking. Can you collect smilies on Digsby like you can on MSN?

By: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:30:28 +0000

Digsby is my current choice but sometimes the automatic updates does not work perfectly.

By: Moin

Moin — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:58:23 +0000

Adium is one of the best!

By: maven2k

maven2k — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:55:41 +0000

If I actually open and IM client I use Pidgin, but most of the time I just use the one built in Gmail. I don’t think that qualifies as Google talk, but since you can log into yahoo messenger with it, that pretty much covers most of my friends.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:06:16 +0000

When I’m working on my computer I don’t like to be interrupted. So I’m going to show just how out-dated I am.

I don’t use an Instant Messaging client! Nope, none at all!

The only people I need to contact “right now” are on my cell phone. And, NO, I don’t text! Everyone else gets emails!

Maybe next time you can include “NONE” as one of the options, after all not everyone out there installs the latest service, just because it new. If I don’t use something or don’t think I will then I’m not going to put it on my computer.

Thanks