What the heck IS ICQ anyway?

Posted by anthonyloprimo on July 2, 2010, 12:39 p.m.

I see a fair amount of people still using this… messenger?

I hear it's so good, and you can use it with AIM, etc. I call BS.

I must have added a total of 8 different people - some of which also have AIM/MSN/YIM, (and I chat with them over that). I send them a message from AIM to their ICQ number, and they never respond. What is this bullcrap?

If ICQ is half as good as I hear, why the heck have I been unable to talk to them via AIM? I've noticed AIM allowing this for the longest time and It's never worked for me.

Comments

KaBob799 13 years, 8 months ago

ICQ is useless. It's like "What if we had the features of an IM, but forced you to use a phone number instead"

This is pretty much the first time I've heard it mentioned in years o.o

Kaz 13 years, 8 months ago

Quote:
I hear it's so good, and you can use it with AIM, etc.
Should use Pidgin if you want to use multiple messenger names.

KaBob799 13 years, 8 months ago

I don't talk to anyone on AIM so I just use MSN to talk to MSN and Yahoo people.

Cesar 13 years, 8 months ago

or Meebo if you don't wanna download anything

Ferret 13 years, 8 months ago

Pidgin forever. Best thing ever. I pretty much only use it for msn just because the windows for msn are so large and bulky taking up a third of my screen. Not to mention that windows live is a memory whore.

anthonyloprimo 13 years, 8 months ago

@ all you guys

Well the main rant/question was due to the fact that it seems that AIM compatible with ICQ, and people claim it works, yet with the few people who actually did use it (and I added via copy+paste) never seem to respond/get my messages.

KaBob799 13 years, 8 months ago

Yeah but theres nothing I can say about that =p

Scott_AW 13 years, 8 months ago

I remember ICQ, I try not to.

sirxemic 13 years, 8 months ago

There is also Digsby, which provides you all social networking needs.

Avenger 13 years, 8 months ago

I personally use Trillian, but I don't IM much anymore.