Instant Messaging

[Xander]

What do you think of it these days?

I'm not sure. I recently started using MSN a lot more again after barely using it for ages. But I find it weird. Like after a couple of conversations I never talk to some people again x_x Or if I talk to them I feel like I'm talking to them too much!

I talk to lots of cool people on LastFM and some I wanted to chat to on MSN but then its like we never talk on there cos...I dunno. I guess it's easier to talk with things like shoutboxes or journals and stuff. You're just commenting so it's not like "hi, how are you?" which I still always seem to start IMing convos with even though I know it sucks >_<

Or then when you get chatting with people a lot it's like, if I go online and they're on should I say hi first? Or should they because they are already there?

And then there's the thing where you sign on with your old email and see someone on your current list has blocked you..do you ask them why, or just forget about it? How paranoid should you get over MSN? xD

Sometimes I like to have MSN on at work when I'm on my own just cos it kinda feels like people are "around". xD And sometimes you can end up having random funny conversations but... I dunno. At one time I thought Id keep IMing to real life friends who I didn't talk to enough to stay in touch but..I gave in and started talking to random people again. But yeah... it can just be...weird. Or something.

[Decessus]

All your IM freinds are fat, bald men in their midlife crisis.

[Xander]

No they're not :p I've seen them and I've met one soooo! I only have like 10 people on my MSN. xD I'm picky!

[Jowy]

I haven't used MSN since I first had dialup back in 2002. o_o

I just use AIM. Yahoo Messenger's only really around for voice chats. I only talk to a few people regularly anymore, and it's usually when I'm on my work screen name.

[Decessus]

All your IM freinds are fat, bald men in their midlife crisis that pay other people to meet up with others.

[Levian]

I mainly talk to Psy and Rye. They should hate me by now.

[Decessus]

They are both fat, bald men in their midlife crisis.

[Rocket Edge]

Instant messaging is great. I know someone very well for the past two years due to it, and can keep in contact with friends & family when they leave or go abroad..

[Reine]

I have mostly people from #eoff on my MSN contact list.

Nethertheless I dont actually use it much, and mainly just leave it signed in incase someone wants to contact me about something..which they never do xD

[Yamaneko]

I don't use IM programs anymore. Communicating via text is for suckers.

[Sephex]

I use AIM. I don't really talk to people all that much. People are welcome to IM me if they want to.

[Shauna]

I'm online, but I'm either not there, or waiting for someone to talk to me. xD

[Ryth]

I use AIM all the time. I don't mind starting off talking about moods and days. Since that occasionally can start up a conversation. I have a lot of people on my list and talk to them daily. I love using it, I feel I can keep in touch with people easier.

I don't randomly IM people though, I tend to meet them on forums, and talk through PM for a while before bringing it up. Then we sometimes have fun racing to see who can start the conversation first when we're both logged on. Silly amusement.

I've never been blocked before, at least not knowingly. So I don't know, I'd probably inquire as to why.

[Venom]

I dont use msn much anymore or anything else.

[Reine]

I'm online, but I'm either not there, or waiting for someone to talk to me. xD

Which is why the only time we ever have a conversation is when someone invites us both into a multi-conversation :D

[Shauna]

Exactly. :D!

[Vikeve]

all the time but ive stopped recently since most people i talk to go to my school, so sometimes they just annoy me with stuff i already know but sometimes it can be a lot of fun.

[Shiny]

Well, Xander, you see I think IM is much better than talking on the phone, or email. Because, Xander, I don't really like phones. They yell things at me, Xander and email is just plain slow. Xander. AIM is good enough for me. But, because of certain occurrences that happened in the past I now only let people on my buddy list IM me.

[Hawkeye]

I don't really use AIM anymore. I really just text on my cell phone.

[Necronopticous]

I use AIM, MSN, and Google Talk. I prefer Google Talk, but hardly anyone has it. Between AIM and MSN, I like way MSN's webcam stuff works, and I like the way AIM has direct connect abilities. It sort of sucks having all three programs open, but oh well.

[Miriel]

95% of the people on my AIM buddy list are real life friends. But I've noticed that in general, none of my friends use AIM as much as we used to High School. I still log on, but it's usually for the express purpose of talking to someone. Oh, so and so isn't picking up their phone, I'll try AIM, sorta thing. I don't log on and just let AIM sit there like I used to.

[Goldenboko]

Instant Messaging is pointless. The only thing you can do with it is....

A. Talk to people you don't know and end up being 40-year old sickos

or

B. Talk to your friends who you can just call up on the phone.

Plus talking on the phone is quicker and makes it easier to multi-task.

I only use it to distribute files (it actually works nicely)

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I sign into MSN all the time, and I forget about AIM, though most people I talk to are on MSN anyways.

My MSN list consists both of people that I know offline and online and there are some random people who added me to their list. I usually only talk to the same few people, everytime I am online. Sometimes I will IM someone from HS to see how they are doing and such too.

[Paro]

Everyone from my old highscool keeps in touch with MSN, we used to use ICQ but that changed many years ago.

I have many women (who i've met) on my list.

[Renmiri]

What do you think of it these days?

I'm not sure. I recently started using MSN a lot more again after barely using it for ages. But I find it weird. Like after a couple of conversations I never talk to some people again x_x Or if I talk to them I feel like I'm talking to them too much!

it can just be...weird. Or something.

Sounds to me you are not talking to the right people.

Hint: Quality over quantity :D

Don't take blocking too personally. I confess, I block a lot of people and rarely give out my MSN addy. But that is because I barely have time for going online. I'm always blocking / unblcking people because my "limit" is 1-2 people to chat... I just can't type any faster! Things are just too hectic with 3 little kids, 2 dogs and 3 cats. And a web site to maintain.

I guess I'm lucky my online buddies still talk to me after all the blocking / unblocking and my plain MIA periods. Thankfully people I chat with know and understand that I can go offline any minute to change a diaper, kiss a booboo or serve some cookies and not come back for hours. Or days.

Gotta go or my little boy will have a fit. I promised to play Zelda w/ him after he finished his homework :D

[Roto13]

It sort of sucks having all three programs open, but oh well.

Trillian. :P

I use Trillian for Yahoo, AIM, IRC, and ICQ (even though I don't have anyone on my ICQ list. :P). I use MSN for MSN. I have something like 160 MSN contacts. I rarely actually start conversations, though. If I do, it's probably with someone who is rarely online.

[Venom]

I hate instant messanger programs.

[Denmark]

I pretty much only talk to my girlfriend on AIM, and that's because I'm at college now and she is not, and i can only talk to her on the phone after 9 because we talk for hours and my peak minutes are rather limited.

[LunarWeaver]

I use MSN now and then, but I don't use it much like I used to. I always want to do other stuff while I'm chatting because I'm weird like that, but I can't multi-task at all so it doesn't work out. I go the PM route more than IM.

[Meat Puppet]

MSN is so bloated with all kinds of useless (and ugly) features that it gives my computer near fatal AMIs (or whatever computers get). Not only that, it wants me to upgrade my OS so I can get even more useless (and ugly) features.
I could easily tough out these system-clogging features if so many people on my contact list didn't suck. I have—at the very most—3 IM buddies who are actually worth going through the anguish MSN inflicts upon me. The majority of people are friends, ex-friends, annoying internet people who want me to join their boring and dying forums, and family.

I used to like AIM because it came off as very dry bone, hard knuckles, rock jawed and so on. But then one day it like, sold out. Still doesn't pump my arteries to near explosion—though it is getting very close. The people there aren't too bad; Julie, for example. I also get a strange pain in my crotch every time I open the program. Now that you mention it, I actually uninstalled the program a few days ago to make room for Billy. A temporary uninstallation, I guess. Maybe.

ICQ is great if I'm feeling a little low; as soon as I sign on I'm blasted with crazy sounds and 30-something year old Chinese women chatting me up.

Yahoo! Messenger is... well... tolerable, I guess. I have like 153 contacts who are never online. The one person who is online is away or busy. I have two fond memories of the program: It was the first place my good friend Curtis Goodes instant messaged me, and it is also where crono_logical sent me its porn collection (all 0kb of it).

Trillian makes me pee blood.

Google Talk is by far my favorite. I guess it's that kind of straightforward thing I liked about AIM all those years ago. Though all these recent updates are making me a little uncomfortable. For the future of it, I mean. I guess I just worry about it too much. At the moment—spare a few bugs—it's a great program.
Even if hardly anyone uses it.
...though that is actually a pretty good thing.

[Ashi]

I only use MSN. The only messenger I've been using for the past few years. I only talk to a handfull of people. With people I know online-only, convernsations usually do start with "Hi, How are you?" but I think I talk to more IRL people on my MSN list and we usually just start msging each other with something random and not the typical "How are you?".

[theundeadhero]

MSN and yahoo are always open. MSN doesn't really get used much because the people on my friends list just don't seem that talky. Yahoo get's used a lot more because that's where any of my family and real life friends and I talk if they use IM thingies. Without that, I would be a ghost because it <i>isn't</i> just that easy to call someone.

[Christmas]

No one wants to talk to me. :(

[Polaris]

I only use webmsn, I odn't feel the need to install it and I'm hardly online there! It's fast if u wanna talk to someone without pm but personally I prefer pm on a forum!

Google Talk is not bad either!

[ljkkjlcm9]

I'm almost always signed onto AIM, but I rarely talk to anyone. I have 1 friend that I consistently talk to on it. And everyone on my main screenname, I have met in real life. People I haven't met, get tossed to a secondary name. People in college are almost always signed on, but rarely ever there, it's kinda funny.

THE JACKEL

[The Real Dark Messenger]

I use MSN and Skype. Espicially MSN. I like it a lot, but I don't really have people on it, that I haven't met IRL. Out of my 30-40 contacts I have about 4 'cyber' friends.
The IRL contacts are just old friends from school, family, etc. And I find it nice to 'have them around'.

[Fuzakeru]

I use AIM cause the RP group at Bleachforums makes chats there daily.

I sometimes use Yahoo since we host voice chats. n_n Those are fun. ( By the way - EoFF should have more of those. =/ )

I hardly ever use MSN. -shrug-

No one from EoFF ever IMs me anymore. xD

[Shauna]

I sometimes use Yahoo since we host voice chats. n_n Those are fun. ( By the way - EoFF should have more of those. =/ )

Yes. I agree.

[Xander]

This one guy seems to have me completely confused with someone else. It makes me giggle. xD (because i'm mental... = me) Perhaps I need to get a little better acquainted with certain people on my list...

Teddy says:
where do you live again? boston?

because i'm mental, be gentle with me says:
umm, england xD

Teddy says:
oh

Teddy says:
that's totally not boston

because i'm mental, be gentle with me says:
totally not, no

Teddy says:
so you can't come to this concert with me

because i'm mental, be gentle with me says:
I guess not, its kinda far.. ;_;


Edit - I don't think he gets it..

Teddy says:
I wish she was playing tonight

Teddy says:
or any band I was into a lot, not just a band I kinda like

because i'm mental, be gentle with me says:
so the show is tonight?

Teddy says:
yeah

Teddy says:
so you definitely can't come

because i'm mental, be gentle with me says:
don't think I'd make it in time....

[Reles]

AIM's how I keep in touch with 90 percent of the people I know. The other 10 percent is on MSN, which are probably the most important people in my life. I used to have yahoo, but I don't really talk to any of those people anymore, they're never on anyway. IMing is great fun though.

Also I have these weird Spanish guys that attack me on msn, I tried blocking them, it got rid of most of them, but on some email address I just can't delete or it kicks me off msn entirely, it really bites.

[Rainecloud]

MSN for me, only because I can't be bothered installing anything else.

My contact list = Xander. That's it. :)

[Xander]

MSN for me, only because I can't be bothered installing anything else.

My contact list = Xander. That's it. :)

Rainecloud's a sweetie ;)

[Yuffie514]

i started an MSN account a few months ago, but so far i like AIM better.