What program for communication do you use?

@Bublik (19)
Lithuania
January 12, 2009 1:38am CST
I personally use Skype to interact with my friends, but i know there are other programs like msn, icq, so i'm curious what kind of programs do other people use to communicate?
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• United States
12 Jan 09
I use skype as my phone and I use yahoo as my messanger. I love skype and how you can talk to any one you want that uses it for free. No Charge. I also for 12 dollars a month get to have a local phone number that my local friends and family can use to reach me. It goes right thru my computer and I can choose to answer it or not but what the number is that comes up. I love both of them and would be lost with out them both.
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@Bublik (19)
• Lithuania
12 Jan 09
I also like the fact that you can speak with each other through skype That's probably the main reason i use it (:
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@manya_pearl (1901)
• Singapore
12 Jan 09
im using ym and facebook, seldom for skype. I do have my multiply.com, friendster, mylot...hi5... I prefer facebook because i can see their profile... and i can still know what happen to d person by reading their comments one another from my own profile... I can see if they have new pics, even i dont open their profile. Its nice... its better than friendster and myspace and hi5.
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• Montreal, Quebec
12 Jan 09
I used to use Trillian before, its good when running momre than one im program, but doesn't have all the features as the original messengers. For example, you can't use webcam or play games on trillian as you can on yahoo. That's why I stopped using trillian
@Bublik (19)
• Lithuania
12 Jan 09
Isn't hard to control all of these things at the same time? Wouldn't it be wiser to use only a couple (:
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@vicky30 (4766)
• India
12 Jan 09
I use yahoo messenger to communicate.It also gives me news about my latest mails.I can also go to the public chat room and chat if none of my friends are online.I previously used to use msn messenger now i'm not using it.
@Chispa514 (871)
• Montreal, Quebec
12 Jan 09
I've never tried skype But i use msn, yahoo, icq, aim, and camfrog (usually all at the same time lol)
@Bublik (19)
• Lithuania
12 Jan 09
Yeah a friend of mine also uses three or four of these at the same time (:
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@McWit0 (3)
• Spain
12 Jan 09
I don't like Skype :/ I prefer MSN of course for text communication and Teamspeak or Ventrilo for voice. I use also IRC chat for gaming chat.
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@Bublik (19)
• Lithuania
12 Jan 09
Well apart that skype uses up a lot of pc resources, i don't see any downfalls of it, do you?
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• United States
12 Jan 09
Trillian is a good program for connecting to all the various services at the same time. I've seen the Trillian Astra beta, which adds services like Skype's IM protocol and others, and it should be even more amazing than Trillian. Working IT at a company and doing odd-jobs for people means it has to be easy to get in contact, so being available by any and all means is a must. Each of the different services have their ups and downs, I can't really say there is one that stands out above all the others. ICQ/Jabber is more open source, but not as popular. AIM is by far the most popular. MSN has a lot of useful features the others lack. Skype is the standard for audio and video, and is starting to add a bunch of useful features, and is quickly becoming closer to becoming my favorite.
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@joosh00 (121)
14 Jan 09
I Use MSN Messenger Mainly Just Because I Love MSN Plus!.
• Bulgaria
12 Jan 09
I use only Skype now, but before I used ICQ and MSN.