Best instant messaging program

[Zoels]

does anyone know what the best instant messaging program is? ive been using aim but im thinking there must be better ones out there.

[Darkflare]

personally, of the ones i have tried i like trillian best. i hear GAIM is good too but i didnt like it as much.

[Mut]

how much better does it have to be than aim...

[Tofu #2]

MSN whats wrong with msn? why's aim cool?

[woofcat]

I also Prefer Trillian becuse i have Yahoo,ICQ,AIM, and MSN. So with one App I can use all of the IM services. Also it has an IRC client.

[PSJ]

msn is enough for me since every god damn scandinavian person uses it and no other im service.

[Uzumaki Naruto]

Aim

[Goingin]

MSN here i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif

[hiddenpookie]

Aim
icq= Gay

[Swallow Your Soul]

for me its aim...but thats because most of my mates use aim anyway as that was the first one we ever used...

MSN tells me when I have e-mail without any logging in bollocks so thats pretty much all I use it for i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif.

[Uchiha Barles]

Pretty much just pick whichever one your friends are already using, because there's no way they're all going to bother switching. That trillian thing sounds interesting. I'm currently using dead aim with my AIM.

[Assertn]

yeah.....the one the most people use will be the best messenger

i used to be a big icq fan (16091449) i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif
but then more and more people switched to aim, so yeah.......

i dont use aim 5.0 or higher.....cause it gimps up my resources, so i just use an older version w/ aim+ to disable lame banners and keep a history log

trillian's a great idea......but i'd only consider it if there was actually another messenger besides aim that had alot of people on it

[frexeze]

aim.. because my friends use it i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

[Darkflare]

its pretty much aim and msn. im actually about half and half as far as the number of friends using each.

[ShinobiNeko]

I mainly use AIM

[complich8]

I think your choice of im networks depends exclusively on who you want to talk to and what they use.

I used to use icq heavily, when all my friends did. Now my friends either use aim, or just email or call, so ICQ took a pretty long hiatus. But now people at my job use icq, so I had to dust off the old number and find a client for it.

For aim, I use a slightly older aim client with a slightly older deadaim wrapper, and the ad server pointed at my local webserver (just to make things particularly quick loading). ICQ I use the open source client Miranda IM. I don't use MSN or yahoo, because I don't like the fact that MSN refuses to listen to what you tell it to do, and yahoo im is just ghey.

A lot of my friends who are on multiple services use trillian. In linux I used to use gaim, but now I'm usually too busy when I'm in a linux desktop to worry about im. on my mac laptop, I use ichat and say again "screw icq" because usually on my laptop means at work, where it's easier for the people who talk to me to just walk the 20 feet to talk to me than to type at me and have me ignore them.

But yeah, it all depends pretty much on what your friends use, ya know?

[Pyron]

icq use to be the shit until they made better ones...

AIM isn't as good as MSN

[Stoopider]

MSN

I still use ICQ because there are still some neandherthals who haven't discovered MSN.

[r3n]

msn

[Washuu-chan]

Gaim is the best.

[Uzumaki Naruto]

if u dont mind me askin whats GAIM is just another version of aim or of somesort

[Koyuki]

MSN, it's ok. Could use Irc. But none of my friends uses it so.

[Knives122]

I use Aim, its fine IMO