What's your favorite messaging service?!

Mine's MSN, although everyonce in a while I'll sign on AIM because I miss it but then I get tired quickly and get back on MSN.

I like MSN 'cause the comment box and the display pictures, also the handwriting function 'cause sometimes I'll draw pictures at people.

I like AIM solely because of the idle and away functions. I usually sign in on Away on msn but most people know I'm there, but when I'm not they're shocked, luckly most of them would have me on AIM and then realize I havn't touched the computer in 6 hours. XD

I can't stand Yahoo for the life of me, I may have used it once since I was 14. :rolleyes2

So which messenger is your favorite and why? What would you do to make it better if it's not good enough already? :D

MSN is great if you patch it to oblivion. Yahoo sucks, though.

well, the client I use is adium, pretty nice.

My favorite service, well they're all rather similar. aim seems to have the best transfers, but you can leave offline messages with y!m,but adium will store messages until I or they are signed on again, so it's moot. AIM I guess.

I talk to the most people on MSN (all folks from here of course), but I'm on AIM all the time just in case someone from RL wants to contact me (which happens occasionally). I'm always away on AIM though, even though I'm very often NOT away. Sometimes my away message is a conversation-starter (I NEVER use "I am away from my computer right now" as an away message, and I despise it), often it tells what I'm doing, and it's a chance for me to be witty and creative. I don't put up an away message; I craft one. Also it's one of the main ways my parents gain information about my life. Yes, they use AIM.

I also like MSN because it's where I talk to a number of people from EoFF, plus all the reasons Greed-ness mentioned.

Yahoo is just terrible in comparison.

AIM by far. It's so simple and unobtrusive, and file transfer is a piece of cake on it.

edit: oh yeah, obviously I'm not using anything above AIM 5.9, because that Triton stuff is garbage.

The old AIM. I hate the new one. Y!M wasn't too bad either. Though I hardly get on them unless I'm looking to talk to someone specific. I tend to get stalked by a few people I'd rather not talk to. :shifty:

msn lately. aim has so many stupid features, that if i use it, i only use version 5.1 or whatever. none of that aim v. 6-7 nonsense for me~~

but i talk to most people on msn. i like the handwriting feature too, and the display pictures are a lot nicer. then again, for aim the away message is nice, and the personal profile...

but on msn i always am away and i can still talk to people from away, which i like.

so i dunno, but probably msn. not yahoo, of course. xD

I use Trillian, so it doesn't matter much to me. AIM's plugin seems to be the most reliable. MSN as a service is more feature-rich than AIM or Yahoo, but the actual messenger is plagued by so much random bull:skull::skull::skull::skull: it's really horrible. But as a Microsoft program that's not especially surprising.

MSN. If I'm online, I'll be on MSN.

I don't really use any of the others. I use Skype occasionally if somebody wants to voice chat~ :jess:

MSN, I guess. I only get on it to talk to one person in the early AM hours. It doesn't really matter to me because I don't need fancy magenta pants features, just text.

msn

Yahoo is kinda clunky and troublesome just for logging in, and AIM is AOL related and I refuse to touch it. ICQ is a pain and I don't know anyone that even uses it anyway, though some aspects of it were fun... if only I could remember what.

MSN.

Msn I'd say.

MSN, though most of the people I talk to are on AIM.

I like msn the most but i dont know why people dont like yahoo. I dont use it as much as there arent as many people online but i still like it.

I hate it because no matter what computer I'm using, no matter where I am, no matter what account I'm using, no matter what IM client I'm using, Yahoo CONSTANTLY fails to deliver messages, and doesn't tell me so until 5 minutes later, and usually only if I check the message window myself.

Plus, for a while you could send people little Madonna animations complete with sound bites. That's just wrong.

Yahoo!!! *is addicted to online chatting*

Mostly MSN. If I am IMing, most likely on MSN. Sometimes I just stay as "Appear Offline" and only IM those I want to talk to. Occasionally I use AIM, more so to sign in for a bit and see if anyone interesting is on.

I always log in on MSN the second I go online.

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I always log in on MSN the second I go online.

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MSN lets me be able to be social with joo eoffers :D

I don't chat anymore, but when I did I'd use AIM.

I use IRC. If I need to contact PC nubs, I use MSN. MSN is also okay for voice/video chats, I suppose. File transfers on MSN are complete fail though, because of the lack of a resume feature.

aim

I like to use Trillian. I don't like opening up multiple IM clients just to chat to people. So, I use Trillian to keep all my contacts all in one place. :)

I use Adium.

AIM i have yahoo also but i havent used it in like 2 years.

MSN is what my friends use, so that's what I use. It gets annoying having to manage several windows but you get used to it.

I think it's the patch at Mess with MSN Messenger: msn emoticons msn names display pictures download that allows you to use one window for all of your MSN chats. Tabbed chatting. :P

MSN. It's easy and it's the one everybody seems to be using.

I use AIM since I have more people to chat with. I only chat with two friends on Windows Live Messenger.

I don't really chat online anymore- but there's myspace... But I don't really like myspace either. MSN is good.

IRC as the preferred chatting medium, however mostly everyone I talk to uses AIM.

MSN, everyone i know uses it and its just so simple.

The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
I like to use Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and IRC.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
So long as you know what you're doing, then Y!M is not a problem.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
Set it to the Classic skin, for a start - this solves most of the problems people might have with the thing. Then just minimise the crappy bits and it looks fine and dandy, just like it did years ago.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
The voicechat and webcam facilities are superior to those used on MSN, easily. Particularly voice conferences. I detest MSN's version of voice conferences.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
If I have to talk to someone on MSN, I use Y!M, thanks to the new functionality between the two systems, which is great.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
It means I don't have to bother logging into Trillian anymore, just to talk to people on MSN.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
The things that I need, Y!M provides.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
This includes nicknames, offline messages, secure archives, mail alerts (Y!Mail > Hotmail), an effective invisible mode (although I don't use that these days, admittedly), a lot of friends on the list...
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
...and perhaps most importantly, much like all decent messaging systems, it doesn't put what you're saying below a freakishly long username that is constantly changed so you never know who the bloody hell you're talking to.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
IRC is good for chatrooms - obviously.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
AIM is good for file exchanges, especially if you use the direct transfer function. That's lovely.
The member of Eyes on Final Fantasy that is known as Loony BoB and has a userid of 22 and is currently feeling happy and would like to just make a shout out to his good old mate Dan says:
MSN is annoying on too many levels. I can't understand the conversations people quote to me. You lot are just lucky that this post, at the least, is not a conversation and just me making a point with a single username. Good for you.

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BoB: I like to use Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and IRC.
BoB: So long as you know what you're doing, then Y!M is not a problem.
BoB: Set it to the Classic skin, for a start - this solves most of the problems people might have with the thing. Then just minimise the crappy bits and it looks fine and dandy, just like it did years ago.
BoB: The voicechat and webcam facilities are superior to those used on MSN, easily. Particularly voice conferences. I detest MSN's version of voice conferences.
BoB: If I have to talk to someone on MSN, I use Y!M, thanks to the new functionality between the two systems, which is great.
BoB: It means I don't have to bother logging into Trillian anymore, just to talk to people on MSN.
BoB: The things that I need, Y!M provides.
BoB: This includes nicknames, offline messages, secure archives, mail alerts (Y!Mail > Hotmail), an effective invisible mode (although I don't use that these days, admittedly), a lot of friends on the list...
BoB: ...and perhaps most importantly, much like all decent messaging systems, it doesn't put what you're saying below a freakishly long username that is constantly changed so you never know who the bloody hell you're talking to.
BoB: IRC is good for chatrooms - obviously.
BoB: AIM is good for file exchanges, especially if you use the direct transfer function. That's lovely.
BoB: MSN is annoying on too many levels. I can't understand the conversations people quote to me. You lot are just lucky that this post, at the least, is not a conversation and just me making a point with a single username. Good for you.

I used to exclusively use Yahoo because I think it has the best voice chat option,none of this 'hold a button and record your message' type of business like msn does.
But I don't use it anymore since no on else that I know does,lol.
I would like AIM if the emoticons didn't suck beyond belief.
I hardly use it anymore even though most of the people I know use it.
MSN is the way to go for me now,especially since you can actually create emoticons yourself and all the other features arent too shabby.
I never used to like MSN because it would always boot me off the internet,but that problem seems to be fixed now D:

MSN because I am lazy and don't much care. It does what it's supposed to - for what I use it for anyway - so I see no real reason to bother with anything else.

MSN. I never use aim or yahoo anymore because they suck beyond belief.

I don't use any messenger service; they are silly. I just use MySpace to talk to people, or my cell phone.

AIM fer sure. It's just more convenient because all my friends use it.

Despite the fact that I've already posted in this thread, I just read the title as "What's your favorite massaging service?!"

Answer: Indonesian blind masseuse.

So far a lot of people have said Y!M and "anything but MSN" suck, but I don't recall any people giving their actual reasoning for it. Maybe this is just a natural bias. Personally, I think more than anything, it's that people are too lazy/oblivious to download different software and use it. They see MSN on their Windows install and they just use that, and because of this, everyone else does too. It's rather sad. It's a terrible system, and to my knowledge all it's flaws are easily rectified by using another system. Y'all are lazy, nothing more, nothing less!

Actually I've used all 3 and yahoo and aim suck balls when compared to msn and all it's glorious features.

I use msn is enough for me I just chat with my brother or bf daily so I don't really care :)

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So far a lot of people have said Y!M and "anything but MSN" suck, but I don't recall any people giving their actual reasoning for it. Maybe this is just a natural bias. Personally, I think more than anything, it's that people are too lazy/oblivious to download different software and use it. They see MSN on their Windows install and they just use that, and because of this, everyone else does too. It's rather sad. It's a terrible system, and to my knowledge all it's flaws are easily rectified by using another system. Y'all are lazy, nothing more, nothing less!

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It's a terrible system that can be easily fixed with a couple of patches. Yahoo just sucks because it's a horrible, unreliable service.

Also, that "freakishly long user name" you were complaining about is mostly the fault of the person you're talking to, and partially your own fault. My MSN name is just my real name. Everyone else's name on my list is their own real name, because I gave them all nicknames.

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nicknames, offline messages, secure archives, mail alerts (Y!Mail > Hotmail), an effective invisible mode (although I don't use that these days, admittedly), a lot of friends on the list...

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MSN has all of these things. (Also, Gmail > than Y!Mail AND Hotmail. :P)

Gmail is terrible because it's alternative to folders is frankly horrendous. Other than that, though, the entire system is a ripoff of Y!Mail.

You shouldn't have to patch a messenger service to make it work. I still don't see what people are complaining about Y!M for, though. Horrible? Unreliable? How? It's more reliable for me than MSN is, that's for sure. And yes, I know how reliable MSN is because Danielle uses it. I'm assuming you're talking about connections, because I don't know any other thing that you can say is unreliable about a messenger service.

Also, MSN does not have a quality voice conferencing system.

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I use Trillian, so it doesn't matter much to me. AIM's plugin seems to be the most reliable. MSN as a service is more feature-rich than AIM or Yahoo, but the actual messenger is plagued by so much random bull:skull::skull::skull::skull: it's really horrible. But as a Microsoft program that's not especially surprising.

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Same here. I vote for Trillian.

MSN, always preferred it to any other, but recently I use macs so I had to download mac messenger and it has no inking and this makes me VERY :(

So to improve, messenger with inks for the mac please, I'm missing so many pictures right now ;(

I pretty much only use msn at work these days though.

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Gmail is terrible because it's alternative to folders is frankly horrendous. Other than that, though, the entire system is a ripoff of Y!Mail.

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Because Yahoo email is somehow unique and creative in some way? Maybe it's changed, but when I tried it out years ago it was pretty much the same thing as Hotmail, except faster.

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You shouldn't have to patch a messenger service to make it work.

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MSN works fine without patching, but if you do patch it you can make it great. Tabbed chatting, custom statuses, skins, no ads, etc.. Honestly, I'm surprised with how reliable MSN is. It's like Microsoft actually somehow managed to make something that works.

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I still don't see what people are complaining about Y!M for, though. Horrible? Unreliable? How? It's more reliable for me than MSN is, that's for sure. And yes, I know how reliable MSN is because Danielle uses it. I'm assuming you're talking about connections, because I don't know any other thing that you can say is unreliable about a messenger service.

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I hate it because no matter what computer I'm using, no matter where I am, no matter what account I'm using, no matter what IM client I'm using, Yahoo CONSTANTLY fails to deliver messages, and doesn't tell me so until 5 minutes later, and usually only if I check the message window myself.

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I used to use MSN, but my friend started me on using AIM recently.

Always been AIM i make accounts for other things but never have stayed on for more than a week or so. I even have an App on my Ds for AIM

AIM. Well, technically I have iChat, but still, it works as AIM.

MSN. Because all my friends have it, and it's what I've used since 2000.

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Because Yahoo email is somehow unique and creative in some way? Maybe it's changed, but when I tried it out years ago it was pretty much the same thing as Hotmail, except faster.

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You know Gmail's look? That's Y!Mail's look. :p Y!Mail changed to it about... six months before Gmail came out. I couldn't believe how insanely similar they were. I thought there would be a lawsuit out or something. And no - Hotmail is a load of crap and I never could stand it. I can't remember Y!Mail being like that, but then, I can't remember what Y!Mail looked like seven years ago either.

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MSN works fine without patching, but if you do patch it you can make it great. Tabbed chatting, custom statuses, skins, no ads, etc.. Honestly, I'm surprised with how reliable MSN is. It's like Microsoft actually somehow managed to make something that works.

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Tabbed chatting is something I personally dislike so I don't know if you can do that with Y!M. Custom statuses, skins? Both default options on Y!M. No ads? Admittedly, there is one ad at the bottom of Y!M but I never notice it. It's very non-intrusive, sort of like having an ad at the bottom of a webpage that you just disregard. There's probably a patch to get rid of that too but it's not worth the bother to me.

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I still don't see what people are complaining about Y!M for, though. Horrible? Unreliable? How? It's more reliable for me than MSN is, that's for sure. And yes, I know how reliable MSN is because Danielle uses it. I'm assuming you're talking about connections, because I don't know any other thing that you can say is unreliable about a messenger service.

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I hate it because no matter what computer I'm using, no matter where I am, no matter what account I'm using, no matter what IM client I'm using, Yahoo CONSTANTLY fails to deliver messages, and doesn't tell me so until 5 minutes later, and usually only if I check the message window myself.

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Funny, that's the exact reason I dislike MSN. xDDD I've not had that happen with Y!M for donkey years. All my messages get through, although Jess and I had some trouble with her MSN and my Y!M talking to each other for a short while when they first started allowing the systems to talk to one another. No problems since then, though, so I figure they've fixed it.

msn and skype ftw =D

I prefer AIM since that's the client everyone on Bleachforums uses and it makes it easier to hosts chats there. I kinda like the newer version of AIM myself since I'm usually juggling eight IMs and a chatroom and the single screen for them all keeps everything organized for me.

I signed on to MSN the other day and saw a bunch of people of EoFF on but I'm too shy to IM anyone from here anymore it seems. D:

I use MSN Web Messenger because it's nice and simple.

I read this as "What's your favourite massaging service?!", and I got all excited about massages. I am now disappointed.

But, I use MSN mostly - I have Y!M, AIM and Skype. DOn't really use them though.

Loyal aim user for years and years.

I have msn, but I mostly like aims away service. (The box~)

But I use older aim, I have no time for bloatware. Especially when I already have an OS as bloatware ;D

MSN

1. Handwriting.

2. All my buddies use it.

My favorite is talking to people face to face.

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My favorite is talking to people face to face.

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Then go talk to people face-to-face.

I didn't tell you to go use AIM when you said you liked to use AIM. Or whichever one you said. So rude.

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Any of these are still been used by the dinosaurs here?

I can confirm that I continue to think, even after all these years, that MSN was trash. :D

These days I use Discord for most of my chats, with the exception of Facebook Messenger for keeping up with my family, and a couple of people still message me on WhatsApp.