What's your favorite messaging service?!

[Casey]

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

[Jowy]

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

[cloud21zidane16]

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

[Loony BoB]

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.

TRANSLATION
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.

[Seraphic]

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:

[Nominus Experse]

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.

[Blue Harvest]

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

[Galadrius]

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

[Apollo]

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

[Ouch!]

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.

[Loony BoB]

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!

[Blue Harvest]

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

[Polaris]

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

[Roto13]

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!

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.

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...

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

[Loony BoB]

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.