KillerMuffin
Seraphically Disinclined
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Personally, I don't use AOL, I prefer to connect directly to the internet, so AIM is out for me. In case you didn't know, using AOL is (roughly) like connecting to an intranet, and accessing the internet via the intranet's connection to it. Ping rates really suck. I use a local ISP, so I can charge down to their office when the ISP hacks me off and yell at their techie in person. Gawd I can't wait for cable or DSL.
I have ICQ, but I don't use it very often, it is an unweildy pain in the rear, not to mention some of my hacker buddies think it's spankingly hysterical to use it to shut my puter down for me. Ugh. The misfortune is that threats just turn them on.
I gots MSN Messenger and I like it alot, use it through Hotmail account, all free. What makes it nicer is that everyone can use it, whether you use MSN's isp service or not. What I hate about it is that Microsoft owns it and my usual accidental clicking sends the page I'm working with straight to msn.com. I especially like it now that it has voice chatting capabilities, I can use it to call my mother-in-law. Though, I can't tell her I'm using the internet, then she automatically assumes that every hacker in the world is somehow using the connection to figure out the combination to her safe...
What do ya'll use? What do you like about it? Dislike? Is spankingly hysterical really a correctly used phrase?
I have ICQ, but I don't use it very often, it is an unweildy pain in the rear, not to mention some of my hacker buddies think it's spankingly hysterical to use it to shut my puter down for me. Ugh. The misfortune is that threats just turn them on.
I gots MSN Messenger and I like it alot, use it through Hotmail account, all free. What makes it nicer is that everyone can use it, whether you use MSN's isp service or not. What I hate about it is that Microsoft owns it and my usual accidental clicking sends the page I'm working with straight to msn.com. I especially like it now that it has voice chatting capabilities, I can use it to call my mother-in-law. Though, I can't tell her I'm using the internet, then she automatically assumes that every hacker in the world is somehow using the connection to figure out the combination to her safe...
What do ya'll use? What do you like about it? Dislike? Is spankingly hysterical really a correctly used phrase?
well sweetie, they can shut your puter down, or windows, or simply disconnect you without you accepting a file from them. One of ICQ's biggest problems. Some of it has to do with certain .wav files that come with the windows O/S. I don't know much about it, but I know about four places to go to download the crap to do it. I just have no interest in doing so. I'd much rather flirt on a BB and write erotic stories than concern myself with a hack. They can't give you something that actually hurts your computer unless you accept it, so far. Unless they have your outlook express address... but thats entirely different and MS should have a patch up soon. Getting disconnected and having you computer shut down every 15 minutes gets old you know. I cannot believe I have friends like this *sigh*
