Feeling chatty?
Jun. 7th, 2010 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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MSN used to be my main one. Nowadays I think more people are talking to me over FB chat or Google Chat/Jabber (which hooks up to andrew@ducker.org.uk).
MSN used to be my main one. Nowadays I think more people are talking to me over FB chat or Google Chat/Jabber (which hooks up to andrew@ducker.org.uk).
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Date: 2010-06-07 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-07 01:56 pm (UTC)... so fewer people for longer on Google, a set of people often but short bursts at work on Communicator, and more people for shorter random conversations on Facebook.
Skype I only use for two or three people, and then mostly for video chat.
And very rarely IRC to chat on the filk channel.
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Date: 2010-06-07 05:14 pm (UTC)I was about to berate you for using Facebook chat because the website's so awful but if there's a Jabber gateway I could use, then that might make everything a lot nicer!
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Date: 2010-06-07 05:20 pm (UTC)http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php
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Date: 2010-06-08 11:32 am (UTC)I tend to use whatever chat client the person I want to contact is using.
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Date: 2010-06-07 02:05 pm (UTC)I use Pidgin or Adium, depending on the platform I'm using at the time, so like many people here, I don't usually think about what system people are on, except that I don't have skype integrated properly yet, so I have to run that separately, which irks me :P
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Date: 2010-06-07 02:35 pm (UTC)And it's good at what it does, but I loathe its lack of integration. The only ways to get it into pidgin I saw were very hacky and unreliable, plus, then (of course), it doesn't actually take voice calls. Guh. Bloody proprietary protocols.
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Date: 2010-06-07 02:20 pm (UTC)-- Steve vastly prefers email; slower pace is balanced by the greater accuracy and depth of each message.
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Date: 2010-06-07 02:36 pm (UTC)Now I just have Google Talk running in my systray.
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Date: 2010-06-07 02:52 pm (UTC)Are there advantages to Skype chat that I'm missing?
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Date: 2010-06-07 02:52 pm (UTC)I run Pidgin, and it connects to Google Chat for personal stuff, MSN for one client, an internal XMPP("jabber") server for a second client, and I also use Skype for family overseas.
I use them all pretty interchangeably - and, more importantly, with the exception of Skype, I access them all simultaneously and seamlessly via the same interface.
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Date: 2010-06-07 03:16 pm (UTC)- Gmail for friends
- IRC for hanging out with other developers, some of whom are friends :)
- MSN for main work
- Skype for some work contacts
- Facebook for when someone I haven't spoken to in ages happens to spot me online and bing me
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Date: 2010-06-07 04:45 pm (UTC)It probably has to do with age. Chat seems to appeal to younger people, (teenagers in particular.) Maybe it's my age, or the culture I come from, but I'd rather have a conversation.
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Date: 2010-06-08 07:07 pm (UTC)I did it a bit years ago, but most of my friends just don't use IM or text messages, (which I'm thankful for because I don't like dealing with text messaging.)
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Date: 2010-06-09 08:16 am (UTC)And most of my friends live a fair distance away, so meeting up is tricky to chat to most of them.
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Date: 2010-06-08 04:09 am (UTC)But at work we use Sametime to chat with co-workers. I didn't think of that while selecting my answer, as "work chat" is more work than chat.
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Date: 2010-06-08 01:56 pm (UTC)i would like to get skype working via bitlbee as quite a few people now have me added on skype but it's not so convenient for my nomadic whatsit. but i haven't worked out if it's possible within my setup. skype seems to be the thing that people are adding me on recently...