Feeling chatty?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1575371]

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).

Comments

[werejud.livejournal.com]

I use skype on a daily basis, mostly for text communication. I do occasionally dip a toe in google chat's murky waters. Used to use IRC every day, but that was related to a specific game which I've since stopped playing.

[andrewducker]

I tried to use Skype for chat, and got very annoyed very quickly. I find Google Chat a lot better - mostly because I use it via Pidgin, which has an interface I like. And the chats are all archived on gmail, which is handy.

Are there advantages to Skype chat that I'm missing?

[0olong.livejournal.com]

I log in mainly for the video, and rarely for that. Something oddly entertaining and kind of comforting about it, I find. I might use the voice thing too if I could get it working in Ubuntu - actually, the machine I'm currently on does have properly working sound, I think, but I'm not feeling very chatty.