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

[dreema.livejournal.com]

I think it's a toss up between googlechat and MSN for me. I've given up on yahoo! cos they keep breaking the clients i use and ever since LJ did whatever they did their jabber has been completely unreliable

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Difficult set of answers ... I most frequently talk on Google Chat and Microsoft Communicator (I can do both on my phone as well as on my PC at work), but I talk to more people on Facebook ...

... 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.

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

Mostly FB but I use Meebo as my chat client and found this helps most of my contacts on less used networks keep in touch. MSN follows a close second.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Given that Trillian hooks into MSN, Yahoo, Facebook and AIM (plus others, but those are the four I usually connect), I don't really notice which particular one any one person is using. The chat window's the same to me. The bulk of my contacts are usually FB or MSN but it's easier to classify it all as just "Trillian".

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

The majority of my contacts are still MSN, but that majority is decreasing, mostly to google talk, it seems.

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

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I use MSN a lot for most people. However I no longer have access to it at work and the person I talk to most tends to chat via googletalk now instead, so they're probably about equal.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I answered "I don't chat online", but as usual the truth is a bit greyer than the absolute. The very rare times I do online chat it's usually MSN/Windows Whatever. I did IRC a couple of times for special events... but 99+% of the time I close the chat client upon boot-up.

-- Steve vastly prefers email; slower pace is balanced by the greater accuracy and depth of each message.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Oh and I LOATHE the facebook chat interface. It keeps logging me in and people try to talk to me on it and it steals the focus from whatever else I'm doing and erroneously reports whether I, or the other party, are still there or have gone offline.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

I don't chat online very much, because I don't like realtime contact unless I'm in a very specific mood (although Twitter conversations often amount to IM by any other name...). I stay invisible in Google talk but sometimes talk to one or two people there (mostly my wife), and on the rare occasions I log on to Facebook (every week or two) if one of the friends I have no other contact with (mostly from the LJ Exodus) is on there I'll talk to them...

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Complete toss-up between GChat and IRC. I'm basically always logged into both.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

I am no longer reliably online and so don't have much use for chat. Back when I was reliably online, I used Pidgin for MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, and IRC.

Now I just have Google Talk running in my systray.

[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.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

This poll needs more options.

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.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

In fact I use:

- 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

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I just don't use chat. I don't play WoWC or other MMORGs, and my closest friends don't seem all that interested in chat.

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.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

I very rarely chat online nowadays to people, most interactions being spontaneous via Facebook. However, given a choice, I use MSN.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

I very rarely talk to anyone online except my boyfriend, and that's almost entirely via skype. Other than that it's msn or google chat..

[draconid.livejournal.com]

I used to be a big IRCer until DDOSing crippled the network I was on (many many years ago) for a number of months. I ended up getting addicted to LJ and never did go back to IRC properly after that. I've never found any other form of chat fun or interesting - I like the fact that in IRC you don't have to have one-on-one chats and the randomness of many of the encounters. If I were to chat online I'd probably go back to IRC, but I'm just too shy for real-time chat nowadays.

[darkoshi]

I don't really chat online anymore because the few people I used to chat with on Yahoo seem to have stopped using it, or we all login so rarely that we don't cross paths anymore. I have no reason to try any of the other chat systems, as I know no one to use them with.

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.

[mair_in_grenderich]

i am usually logged into aim and msn via bitlbee. i only ever chat to my sister and she generally chats on msn unless she's trying to hide offline in which case she's only on aim.

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...