Instant Messaging

Started by Tsutarja February 13th, 2014 6:23 PM
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Tsutarja

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So is there anyone out there that uses instant messaging? What instant messaging clients do you use? How often do you use IM? What reasons do you use IM for?

Pendraflare

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Posted March 29th, 2021
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I haven't used IM'ing services as much recently, but I do have Skype. I use it mostly for fun conversations and such. And I used to use MSN but none of the people I used to talk to on it are ever on it anymore.

I do have Facebook Messenger for IRL people, but that doesn't get used by me too much.
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Sheep

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I used to be huge into MSN but it's dead now. 8( Use Skype to communicate in its place; not as customizable but it gets the job done and I've gotten used to it. Also use Trillian but only for speaking with some real life friends and the boyfriend!

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I used to be a pretty big fan of MSN and AIM, but... as Sheep said, former's pretty much nonexistent now. ): As for latter, I lost interest in it; none of my friends use it anymore. I only use Skype nowadays, and have it installed on almost all my devices.

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I rarely use FB to communicate with distant friend that not on my MSN list and I use MSN a LOT compare to skype even if Skype replace LIVE, I use pidgin as a replacer.
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I just use Skype. Before that, MSN/WLM was my favorite IM client, but when they killed it off and forced everyone to switch to Skype, I had no choice but to convert or lose contact with all the people I talk to online regularly...which wasn't an option.

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Back in the archaic days, AIM/MSN was the way to go.

Nowadays, it's all about Facebook Messenger......and Skype, too.
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I mostly just text, but sometimes I will use Facebook's built-in instant messaging. I also use Skypes built-in instant messaging to keep in touch with other staff members of a Minecraft server that I am also staff on.
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I just use Skype. Before that, MSN/WLM was my favorite IM client, but when they killed it off and forced everyone to switch to Skype, I had no choice but to convert or lose contact with all the people I talk to online regularly...which wasn't an option.
Pretty much my reasons for Skype too, actually.

I use Skype to to talk to my boyfriend the most though. There's no other way we can communicate since all he has is twitter. He hates Facebook due to personal reasons and will never use it again. That's about all I ever use as far as instant messaging goes.

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Usually I use Skype nowadays, or Raidcall. I used to use MSN a lot when it was still.. there, but yeah. I use Facebook messaging from time to time too, but, I don't really do much of that since I don't have much interest in Facebook in general. ;o;


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I'm a big skype user, so I rarely log myself out. I'm also into hangouts as well, but a lot of my friends either hate the service or don't have an account to use them.
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In the past I used AIM, MSN, and Yahoo because different people I knew used them. Now I only use Skype and Facebook. IMing sort of died out as social networks became more and more popular.
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Nick

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I used to be a big user of instant messaging. I started off on AIM because that's what all of my school friends had at the time. Then, when I started going on internet forums and using the internet more and more, I migrated to MSN messenger, because that's what all of my internet friends used. During that time, I also discovered Facebook and switched to that being my primary means of contact outside of phone calls and texting my offline friends and cut AIM from my life. I used MSN up until they shut it down and switched to Skype. Now all of my internet friends switched to that and I just can't get into it. I log in rarely, much to the frustration of some of my friends. I don't really have much of an interest in instant messaging anymore. I like the instant contact, but all the people I talk to regularly on instant messaging I talk to in other ways. And I use Twitter a lot to keep in contact with my friends.