Battle of the Instant Messengers

what a fine pickle we're all in. Those of us who spend any time dithering about on the net, are more than likely to have an instant messenger system of some sort another. The big question is... which one should you use and why? What the heck is an Instant Messenger System? --------------------------------------------- *** In a nutshell *** To put it simply, all it is is a little program that identifies when your friends are online. Once you know that they are online, they enable you to send each other a series of short messages, rather than waiting for long emails (which deserve long replies). There's more than one piece of ...

Instant Messaging is something I've used since the start of my online life, and in my opinion has been the sole biggest factor in drawing people of my ages group (18) to the internet. Back in the day when I had a 486 PC with a 14.4K modem I used ICQ, mainly to talk to my friends. As time moved on so have I, and I now use MSN Messenger as my main IM program, with ICQ used to keep in contact with the people I met on there. I never really found internet chat rooms all that interesting; I mean sure they were a neat idea to begin with and I did make a few friends from them, but just about every chat room came down to the same thing. You get the 12 year ...

I'm a talker me, honest I am, ever since I've got online I've always had at least one messenger program installed on my hard-drive, they've always been there for me whenever I needed someone to talk to, but theres so many out there - which ones should we be choosing? Well as I mentioned earlier I have a platitude of messengers installed on my hard drive (5 in fact), so down there where theres all that typing, you lucky, lucky dooyoosers are going to get to hear my views on each of them and hopefully I'll be able to point you to the right program for you. 1. MSN (www.msn.com) Microsoft eh?, the company you love to hate ...