Community weekly poll: Which instant-messaging application do you use the most?
- 3/1/06 3:51 PM
AOL Virus
by MandaE - 3/3/06 8:19 AM In reply to: AOL Instant-messaging by 57tbirdOur entire team at work used AOL until we got hit by a virus and the IT department switched everyone to MSN or Trilliun. I found trilliun used too much resources so switched back to just MSN.
Collaber
by indupriya - 8/3/09 4:01 AM In reply to: AOL Virus by MandaEMy company uses Collaber http://www.collaber.com for project management and collaboration with my team members. I pretty much liked this software. It is an alternative to MS Groove with additional features. Has both desktop and web versions. Can work online or offline. It is affordable too. $30 per year
Groove
by one2mark - 3/3/06 7:30 AM In reply to: Which instant-messaging application do you use the most? by Marc Bennett
Groove networks suite of collaboration tools are much better. It is secure, no spam, very stable, and an easy to use interface. Oh btw, you'll see it in Office 12 later this year. MS bought privately held Groove Networks from Ray Ozzie, then made Ray the Tech Director for MS.
Cheers,
one2mark
IM
by pbuff - 3/3/06 7:31 AM In reply to: Which instant-messaging application do you use the most? by Marc Bennett
AOL best because most widely used
GTalk
by jameswparks - 3/3/06 7:54 AM In reply to: Which instant-messaging application do you use the most? by Marc Bennett
GTalk is simple and easy to use. Only drawback is its fairly new with limited features, and not many people use it.
Meebo!
by jameswparks - 3/3/06 7:56 AM In reply to: GTalk by jameswparksOh, almost forgot, www.meebo.com - It's like trillian, only a web version.
With meebo, you can log on to aim, yahoo, msn, and jabber/gtalk, all on one browser.
And they just released a meebo username/password, so you can log in to all your names by entering only once.
I like iChat
by lordkuros - 3/3/06 7:57 AM In reply to: Which instant-messaging application do you use the most? by Marc Bennett
If you have an AIM or .Mac account and a Mac computer, I like iChat the best because of how well it works integrated into OS X (especially with an iSight). As far as a Linux/Windows PC, Gaim is the best.
None. Why would I?
by Peter0423 - 3/3/06 8:00 AM In reply to: Which instant-messaging application do you use the most? by Marc Bennett
To me, IM is a solution in search of a problem.
I honestly feel no need at all to be in constant touch with everybody I know -- in fact, it's an intrusive pain in the butt. Or am I the only person left on earth who feels the occasional need to be OUT of touch, for some private quiet time?
I have a cell phone ONLY because it's a safety backup when I have to make an emergency call. I don't use text messages and I see no point to them; if I want to talk to somebody, I'll call them, and if I want to send somebody a longer message, I'll e-mail them. And if someone wants to reach ME and they have to wait for a few minutes until I'm by a phone or a computer, they'll just have to deal with it. The longer you have to wait to communicate, and the more effort it takes, the more likely you are to think about what you have to say, and actually say it well - all that IM does is encourage over-abbreviated, illiterate, and usually inane rambling.
If you really, really can't do without this kind of thing, then hey, go for it, and may you be well and happy. But I can't imagine why anyone would want to live like that.
I agree
by ejbirder - 3/3/06 8:43 AM In reply to: None. Why would I? by Peter0423I don't use IM or text either. If I want to talk to someone, isn't that what a phone is for? If I want to write to someone, isn't that what the mail(or e-mail) is for? I think IM and texting is contributing to younger people being unable to communicate well, they are too used to shorthand.
IM is a life saver for some
by rpelleti - 3/4/06 5:56 AM In reply to: I agree by ejbirderAs someone who is living outside of her country and away from family and friends, I'm not sure what I would have done without IM. I can't afford to just pick up the phone whenever I want to talk to someone and IM offers an affordable alternative. And I don't feel that e-mail is quite "personal" enough at times. The interactivity of IM fills the gap.
I realize plenty of immigrants in the past have had to make do with only the postal service (sometimes not even that) but without IM the last 2.5 years of my life would have been truly difficult. If you can afford to pick up the phone and talk whenever you want, wonderful. But IM does provide a truly valuable service, at least for some of us.
BTW, I use Yahoo because I had a Yahoo account, I like it, I've had no reason to change it, and I have an aversion to MS.
Despina
PS- If you don't want to be bothered you just don't log in or you can log in as invisible. I sometimes do this if I don't feel like talking to just anyone on my list but want to watch for a certain person, usually my sister. It's a beautiful thing.
Agree with that too
by sleeppro319 - 3/4/06 6:41 PM In reply to: I agree by ejbirderI just got my first cell phone about three weeks ago, only because my car keeps breaking down and I have needed to call for help. I get and recieve a lot of e-mail from friends and relatives. I don't have the time to sit and type on a computer.
God Bless
Less input, more thinking
by carenc - 3/3/06 9:08 AM In reply to: None. Why would I? by Peter0423I agree. I'm into tech, but I burned out on IM and cell phones years ago. Some have a genetic need for constant input. (Their ancestors probably babbled incessantly on a land line every waking moment.) But honestly, do we really need idiots who talk and/or text message while driving? I guess it adds to the excitement of an already dangerous commute.
Yahoo!! is the Best
by shortee140 - 3/3/06 8:15 AM In reply to: Which instant-messaging application do you use the most? by Marc Bennett
Of course Trillian is great because it incorporates all the messengers in one. But The has to be yahoo really versatile and more secure. I been using the yahoo messenger for years and it has lead to my system being corrupt or my bully my system to make the default anything.
IM software used the most
by BroJohn - 3/3/06 8:19 AM In reply to: Which instant-messaging application do you use the most? by Marc Bennett
I use Yahoo, it also allows me to call and actually speak with them if they also have Yahoo IM. I can shut off my presence online so that no one knows I am there when in stealth mode. The only problem I have with making internet phone calls is that we who live in rural areas still don't have hi-speed connections and it is not very effective to try voice communications without that. Video is out of the question of course.
For now I guess Yahoo and maybe, when more people begin to use it Google IM.
work standard
by dennispsmith - 3/3/06 8:24 AM In reply to: Which instant-messaging application do you use the most? by Marc Bennett
My company relies on YM. In an all-too-familiar story, we're a company with many offices around the country, with project team members in different locations. Communicating on IM probably gets used too much, where a phone call, meeting, walk down the hall, or (gasp) figuring it out for ones self would be better, but it's still an important work communication application.
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