Author Topic: Instant messengers predominance (Read 4268 times)

duz · « **on:** October 12, 2010, 09:22:45 am »

What's the most famous instant messenger in your country?

Here in Brazil ICQ was used until 2004 and dead in 2005.
Now the most people uses MSN.
(old internet users still prefer ICQ, I guess)

Mittsu · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2010, 09:39:40 am »

gadu-gadu, other messengers are not even close

duz · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2010, 10:02:57 am »

Quote from: Mittsu on October 12, 2010, 09:39:40 am

gadu-gadu, other messengers are not even close

Hmm, Poland.

I never heard about this program. Interesting.

jrgp · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2010, 10:07:32 am »

Aim.

iDante · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2010, 10:25:01 am »

Aim for sure.

10th_account · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2010, 10:28:11 am »

MSN for the kids, I guess. But at collage it's IRC.

Mittsu · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2010, 10:38:53 am »

Quote from: duz on October 12, 2010, 10:02:57 am

Quote from: Mittsu on October 12, 2010, 09:39:40 am
gadu-gadu, other messengers are not even close
Hmm, Poland.

I never heard about this program. Interesting.

it used to be good, but now it's overloaded with useless features and ads

darDar · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2010, 10:39:04 am »

ICQ for the kids, MSN for the adults and teenagers // Germany

Psycho · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2010, 10:50:11 am »

It's grown to be a bloated piece of crap, but everyone I know still uses MSN.

zakath · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2010, 10:58:25 am »

msn for friends, skype for business.

jerich · « **Reply #10 on:** October 12, 2010, 11:32:09 am »

it seems social networks are taking over instant messaging as the new medium of communication imo

croat1gamer · « **Reply #11 on:** October 12, 2010, 12:54:17 pm »

MSN, IRC, Skype, Xfire and sometimes ingame chats (but i doubt they count).

jrgp · « **Reply #12 on:** October 12, 2010, 01:37:06 pm »

Quote from: Psycho on October 12, 2010, 10:50:11 am

It's grown to be a bloated piece of crap, but everyone I know still uses MSN.

Imho most official IM clients are totally bloated, which is why I use pidgin/meebo and irssi. I only open skype when I need it, which isn't often.

L[0ne]R · « **Reply #13 on:** October 12, 2010, 01:42:54 pm »

ICQ is still popular in Russia and Ukraine as far as I know, but Skype's getting more and more popular too. Also Mail.ru Agent (used mostly by internet newbs).

I use* ICQ, MSN and IRC.
ICQ is filled with spambots, while MSN's almost completely spam-free unless you have noob buddies who got scammed by some shady website. Also tried XFire before, but was disappointed by the fact that there's a limited list of supported games.
And I use Miranda IM as a client.

*I just stay online and rarely talk to anyone, if that can be considered "using".

Furai · « **Reply #14 on:** October 12, 2010, 01:46:00 pm »

Miranda pwns.

Dusty · « **Reply #15 on:** October 12, 2010, 02:19:36 pm »

IRC for geeks
MSN for youngsters
Skype for families
Facebook for everyone

Mittsu · « **Reply #16 on:** October 12, 2010, 02:22:25 pm »

oh yeah, skype is pretty popular in poland too

-Vis- · « **Reply #17 on:** October 12, 2010, 02:42:29 pm »

MSN for mIRC, because I don't need video/voice chat on my IM client.

demoniac93 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 12, 2010, 03:32:35 pm »

Yahoo, Skype, and MSN.

DarkCrusade · « **Reply #19 on:** October 12, 2010, 03:41:12 pm »

ICQ is one huge overloaded piece of crap compared to MSN and that's why I use it.

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