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Well I think this depends mainly on the country you leave i. For example in my country (Romania) Yahoo Messenger is the most popular IM client so you can't use anything else because no one else des and you wouldn't have anyone to chat to :)

YM is evil!! You are not safe when you're using yahoo messenger.. There are programs out there in the web that can flood you when you're using that thus forcing you to restart your computer... - I think

For us here in the Bay Area, AIM is more popular. (correct me if I'm wrong)

Okay, first, use reply to topic, not post new topic. Secondly, you are write. I have noticed that in China, a proprietary chinese IM service called Q? or something is the most popular and almost nobody uses MSN or skype. I don't know why different countries adopt different IM clients, but it would definitely be worth researching. I guess it's the same question as asked by ministries of imagration all over the world. Why is it that you get places like china town or little ittally in sertain cities. My grand parents live in a place that has gotten totally taken over by indian people in the last 20 years. They are the only caucation people within several blocks

I live in "Romania, the shit-hole of the world" too. So I must use YM. I hate it so bad, full of bugs if i stress my web connection then i "fall out". I have 128 IDs in my messenger and 12 in my MSN so you can tell that here in the shit-hole no one is useing it. I don't know the reason, this is like the fact that here in the shit-hole 99% of the PC users use winamp. I use WMP 11
So spit if you want we can make a AntiYM club in romania and make people use MSN or some other messenger.

I live in "Romania, the shit-hole of the world" too. So I must use YM. I hate it so bad, full of bugs if i stress my web connection then i "fall out". I have 128 IDs in my messenger and 12 in my MSN so you can tell that here in the shit-hole no one is using it. I don't know the reason, this is like the fact that here in the shit-hole 99% of the PC users use winamp. I use WMP 11
So spit if you want we can make a AntiYM club in romania and make people use MSN or some other messenger.

When I was using win32 i had trilian www.trilian.cc . On linux here I use gaim.
So I have them all.

around here, everyone uses AIM

i use trillian too

so i don't have to care about who is usimg what
i use them all in one

and if you have the chance to give the pro version a try, you have to try it

and for those who say it's a little bit confusing to use, yeah it is maybe at first, but if you try some minor tweaks, you will be perfectly satisfied by trillian, also it is way more secure and less annoying then the original msn client.

HateMe wrote:I have 128 IDs in my messenger and 12 in my MSN so you can tell that here in the shit-hole no one is using it.

If you have Windows Live Messenger you can add yahoo contants to it

...well it was in beta a few months ago so I'd assume it's open to everyone now.

Gaim for me, the others aren't even close.

Gaim supports all of those protocols, plus several more. It doesn't have a GUI that looks like it's on LSD. And no spam too. I <3 it. Link (Windows users will want the first thing on the list.)

trick wrote:Gaim for me, the others aren't even close.

Gaim supports all of those protocols, plus several more. It doesn't have a GUI that looks like it's on LSD. And no spam too. I <3 it. Link (Windows users will want the first thing on the list.)

Wow, I didn't even know Gaim was available for windows. Time to download and install the puppy.