Does anyone still use MSN?

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Spinozaad

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Still using it to keep in touch with people. Still popular over here in the Netherlands, mostly because it's been around for so long.

Also, since I deleted my hyves and still refuse to start a facebook, I'm somewhat condemned to it.
 

GrandAdmiral

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Anti-Microsoft so hell no. I use Google Talk.

I also dislike Facebook so I don't use that either.

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TenSecondHero

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I use MSN to stay in touch with a couple of friends that don't use Facebook. MSN tends to be the most popular IM application in the UK, not many people use AIM here.

I use Facebook to keep in touch with people that don't use MSN or have my phone number, however that's only messages, I gave up on Facebook's chat thing, it's just too slow and buggy.

It's actually Windows Live Messenger, but me and my friends have always called it MSN or just 'messenger'.
 

AnonymouZero

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Nickolai77 said:
When i was a younger teenager i remember [footnote]Christ, saying that makes me feel old...[/footnote] how MSN used to be really popular. It was the bane of teachers and parents who saw it as distracting us from our homework, and I remember spending most of my evenings chatting away on MSN, making friends with people who i wouldn't have normally met, and all in all, having a fun time.

Anyway, then i go off to university. And due to some over-zealous and confusing firewalling on the university internet system, which has royally buggered my laptop over, i couldn't use MSN whilst i was at university. I eventually come back home, and nobody seems to be on MSN anymore.... Typically there is less than half a dozen people online for me now, and all those old friends i used to talk to are no longer online, so i'm losing touch with them.

So, do you often use MSN, or indeed Skype, Yahoo or AIM or whatever? Do you think these instant messaging services are less popular than they used to be? Or are my friends just being anti-social?
cellphone mate. it's all about texting now. and yeah, facebook and the such have funner (i can also look at your pics later) interactions.
 

Nickolai77

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AnonymouZero said:
Nickolai77 said:
When i was a younger teenager i remember [footnote]Christ, saying that makes me feel old...[/footnote] how MSN used to be really popular. It was the bane of teachers and parents who saw it as distracting us from our homework, and I remember spending most of my evenings chatting away on MSN, making friends with people who i wouldn't have normally met, and all in all, having a fun time.

Anyway, then i go off to university. And due to some over-zealous and confusing firewalling on the university internet system, which has royally buggered my laptop over, i couldn't use MSN whilst i was at university. I eventually come back home, and nobody seems to be on MSN anymore.... Typically there is less than half a dozen people online for me now, and all those old friends i used to talk to are no longer online, so i'm losing touch with them.

So, do you often use MSN, or indeed Skype, Yahoo or AIM or whatever? Do you think these instant messaging services are less popular than they used to be? Or are my friends just being anti-social?
cellphone mate. it's all about texting now. and yeah, facebook and the such have funner (i can also look at your pics later) interactions.
Heh, but instant messanger doesn't charge you every time you send a message.



I understand the appeal of facebook, i after all have a facebook account, but i mainly use it to see my friends posts and pictures, but i don't contribute much to Facebook itself- i don't want to bore people with status messagers saying "I'm listening to x band" or "I did y and z today and it was funny". Still, considering facebooks popularity, its hardly surprising that instant messaging over facebook is so popular too, dispite it being glitchy as hell. From reading some of the posts here, it seems like it depends what kind of friends you've got. Most of mine seem to have moved away from MSN...
 

RottingAwesome

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I'm 15 and use it everyday
though I have many contacts there's only about 3-4 people ill actually have conversations with

most people dont seem to be able to carry a conversation past "what's up?" "nm you?"
i don't usually bother with those people.

also facebook chat is really annoying >_> it's for people i don't have on msn because i don't like them to pester me
 

ilion

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I still use yeah. when iam speaking to non steam people\friends. Why? Its out of fashion?


OH its different from live messenger?
 

spartan231490

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I use aim litereally, all the time i have internet. It's the best way for me to get in touch with all my friends in various places.
 

Emptywalls

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Nawh just use it to talk to the missus or check my emails.Personally I think that texting and calling ppl is much easier :D



BUUUUUUUUUT its much better than that god damn Facebook chat!!!!!!!! XD
 

Valiance

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I use Pidgin, which I have logging into AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and Google Talk. I don't use facebook IM unless I'm actually on Facebook, and although it has support for IRC, I use other IRC clients.

That said, most of my friends use AIM, but a couple use MSN.

Steam is used a bit, but I really don't see the point when I play most of my games in full-screen windows and alt-tabbing to an IM window is just the same as shift-tabbing to an IM window.
 

StarStruckStrumpets

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I still use MSN, I start it every time I turn on my PC. All of my friends have it, and seeing as I killed my facebook in order to be more social (Oh, the irony!), it's the only way to contact friends other than using my phone.