Goodbye, IM Clients…
I’m so done with instant messaging clients. All of them.
MSN Messenger. Done.
Yahoo Messenger. Done.
ICQ. Done.
Those were the ones I used. Then there’s the software that allows you to combine all your IM clients under one program. But they hog resources like nobody’s business. So they’re out too.
Trillian. Done.
GAIM. Done.
Pidgin. Done.
Why?
Because nobody actually contacts me on the stupid things. Why should I blow 50MB of my system memory running the IM client when nobody actually contacts me on it? It’s a big fat waste of resources, that’s what. So I’m out.
I may opt to use Skype as both IM and VOIP.
(Not that anybody will be contacting me on that either…)
February 29th, 2008 at 9:03 am
I have Skype and Adium. We use Skype to talk to Nick’s family in Ireland. It rocks!
I will now start IMing you ALL THE TIME.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Amen, brotha’! I rarely even turn mine on at work and I rarely use it at home even though it automatically opens when I boot up. Why bother if you don’t use it!? Smooth move.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I use Google Talk and but Yahoo Messenger all the time. I’m always a little gun shy about contacting people via these two means…unless I really, really, really know them.
February 29th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Iv used MSN, ICQ, AIM, Skype all in the past. After awhile I drifted away from ICQ because no one really used it, and AIM because I just didn’t like it. Now the only 2 I use are Skype and Msn messenger. Those 2 arn’t bad but I can see if no one contacts you theres really no point in using them.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:05 am
You know how often I actually turn Yahoo Messenger on, and when I do turn it on I normally walk away forgetting about it. I just don’t know that many people that use yahoo messenger anymore, so unless someone emails me saying “get on yahoo” I normally forget about it.
I must admit it will be a sad day when I do finally remember to login, and I don’t see you there on my list.
I may contemplate going back to Skype, but most people I know use AIM or MSN.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:11 am
Try visiting http://www.meebo.com it combines many messengers but they are all on a website rather than software running on your PC
you lose some of the features, but most of those extra features are annoying anyway
March 1st, 2008 at 11:18 am
Since they blocked all external IM at the office, I’m only on Yahoo IM via the email client anymore. Every once in awhile it comes in handy, but for the most part I don’t use it.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:30 am
I’ve used Meebo before. It’s handy…I’ll say that.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I ditched all except Yahoo IM and the google one, which comes with the Google mail. I usually forget to turn Yahoo IM on, anyway. But I do talk to EDW and Paperback Writer on it sometimes.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:18 am
i think this is where Twitter fits in. it gives me all the chance to contact people, but because it’s online it can be on anyone’s schedule. plus the pluggins are kind of addicting
March 5th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
On second thought, Skype can bite me too. I’ve been getting nothing but error messages when that program shut downs.