Exactly.!
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.
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.
I don't really use AIM anymore. I really just text on my cell phone.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Sounds to me you are not talking to the right people.Originally Posted by Xander
Hint: Quality over quantity
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
Last edited by Renmiri; 10-06-2006 at 12:49 AM.
Me and my kids have dragon eggs:
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.
I hate instant messanger programs.
Owen made this sig. R.I.P.
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.
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.
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.
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