Does anyone use ICQ anymore?

[brigden]

Just curious...

 

[Kenny]

No. I'm sure people in other parts of the world such as China use it a lot (like our AIM and MSN) though.

 

[Fiveohhh]

not me I started one day, but everyone I know was on msn, so I realized it was kinda pointless to have the client installed

 

[waylman]

i have an account but it's set up through trillian

 

[jagr10]

Not really. ICQ was so damn big back in the day, but MSN slowly took over by integrating their hotmail and passport info into msn, making it easy to sign up. Now fewer people use ICQ. Almost reminds me of when Netscape was the #1 browser for a while and the IE snuck up on them and took over. Microsoft sure has a way of coming out on top.

 

[0roo0roo]

yes, offline messaging is cool

 

[notfred]

A bit, but I use AIM more.

 

[T3C]

yes, well its going through trillian.

 

[mee987]

i use the icq service, but not the icq client. not sure which you are referring to.

 

[mpitts]

I am on ICQ, but I rarely get messages there anymore. Everyone I know uses AIM or Yahoo!.

 

[Ketteringo]

49981695

ICQ 4 life, lol. Every other place in the world uses it, just not the US. If I want to talk to my international friends I have to use ICQ.

 

[ElFenix]

i use icq, both the client and service.

 

[Vic]

Yep. I also have AIM and Yahoo all using Trillian. Don't like MSN.

 

[datalink7]

Yes, through Trillian.

 

[lowtech1]

A little bit 2 year ago. I don't do much interm of chat any longer, and at the moment am trying out Skype (kazza phone client)...and looking for someone to test it out with.

 

[Yossarian]

ICQ was good but turned into massive bloat. I have never seen so many features that no one ever wanted (other than in a Microsoft product of course )

 

[brigden]

Why does MSN Messenger not make use of offline messaging? Server space?

 

[0roo0roo]

with 1 gb of ram i find it possible to load both aim and icq at the same time. its incredibles it is!

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
with 1 gb of ram i find it possible to load both aim and icq at the same time. its incredibles it is!

You realize each program only loads ~10MBs each right? Anyone with 256MB or more wouldn't even notice. And considering that 256MB costs about $20 bucks nowadays....

 

[VictorLazlo]

I gave up and switched to MSN (I feel so dirty). Never would have done it on my own, but you've got to go where the people are! I held out on ICQ as long as I could, but got tired of chatting with that one friend who still uses it.

 

[GroundZero]

yep

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
with 1 gb of ram i find it possible to load both aim and icq at the same time. its incredibles it is!

You realize each program only loads ~10MBs each right? Anyone with 256MB or more wouldn't even notice. And considering that 256MB costs about $20 bucks nowadays....

It's called sarcasm

 

[Que-TiP]

i still use it

 

[brigden]

Do you think MSN Messenger will ever utilize offline messenging?

 

[Lithium381]

technically i have an account, but i don't have the client installed currently