Can someone explain why anyone would use ICQ?

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It’s a terrible, terrible program.

It’s worse than Yahoo! Messenger.

It

  • plays the most annoying sound EVER on startup
  • manages to give me an error on startup after I install it
  • take two hours for it to realize I registered
  • has the dumbest system ever for names, by giving you random numbers you can’t possibly be expected to memorize
  • isn’t used by people
  • is unnecessarily large
  • screws up my shortcuts to other messaging clients

EXPLAIN TO ME, PEOPLE, WHY I WOULD EVER USE ICQ WHEN I HAVE AIM AND MSN.

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To pick up the hot chicks offering their webcams to us (who eventually turn out to be wrinkly old men) duh. Don’t we all use it for that reason.

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<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> To act all elitist and condescending to MSN users.

Also, Trillian Pro 2.0. Lav.

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Because I refuse to use anything that has “MSN” or “AOL” in its name.

And if it’s too big, try using ICQ Lite.

Also note that you’re not meant to memorize the numbers, you’re supposed to have a contact list by which you contact people, and if you want to find someone who’s not on the list there are a whole slew of ways to do it.

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Originally posted by Cidolfas
Because I refuse to use anything that has “MSN” or “AOL” in its name.

Isn’t ICQ owned by AOL or something like that?

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Because they only use the network, not the client. And by the way, the network used today is the same as used by AIM. You should be able to add ICQ buddies into AIM and AIM buddies into ICQ. At least if you use a recent client.

I got my ICQ# memorized. My memory is awesome. Honestly!

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It seems everyone in singapore uses it. So i need it to talk to my friends who live there.

But use trillian so you dont have to work with that godawful client the ICQ network gives you.

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More pointless discussion as of why. B@|ng!

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Originally posted by Nero
[b]It

  • plays the most annoying sound EVER on startup
  • manages to give me an error on startup after I install it
  • take two hours for it to realize I registered
  • has the dumbest system ever for names, by giving you random numbers you can’t possibly be expected to memorize
  • isn’t used by people
  • is unnecessarily large
  • screws up my shortcuts to other messaging clients
    [/b]

-You can change the sounds it plays.
-It doesn’t do this to most people. You just had bad luck.
-Tooks less than 10 seconds with me.
-See what cidolfas said.
-You’re wrong, there are thousands of people using it.
-It isn’t, I use the lite version which is very small.
-That is competition for you.

All in all, it seems that the only problem is that you are a lammer. Sorry for being so straightforward.

Originally posted by Evangelion
To pick up the hot chicks offering their webcams to us (who eventually turn out to be wrinkly old men) duh. Don’t we all use it for that reason.

I can only receive messages from people who are in my list, so I don’t have that problem.

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Cid’s argument fails because ICQ is owned by AOL now.

I essentially stopped using ICQ cuz it was buggy and I was too busy and I found the options not all that impressive. I like MSN better.

The number system isn’t hard because throughout your life you’ll have to memorize numbers assigned to you. SSN, school ID, phone numbers, addresses, etc… If you can’t memorize a small number string, you’re pretty sad.

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I think generally he was mentioning all the numbers of the numbers of buddies he would have to remember. Even though you have a buddy list for that.

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Originally posted by Ren
I can only receive messages from people who are in my list, so I don’t have that problem.

Yeah well you just think you’re cooler than me in everything dont you.

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Originally posted by Evangelion
Yeah well you just think you’re cooler than me in everything dont you.

Almost. I’ll only be happy when I finally get to score more often than you :get it?:

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I’ve come to notice that most every town has their own different popular messenger service. Where I used to live, ICQ was king. Here, it’s MSN.

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And uh, i have ICQ buddies on my AIM, so AIM and ICQ can talk to each other.

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ICQ…I only use it to IM my parents from downstairs so no one has to yell up at me when I’m playing my music too loud. It’s a nice cheap alternative to an intercom system. =P

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Originally posted by Ren
[b]-You can change the sounds it plays.
-It doesn’t do this to most people. You just had bad luck.
-Tooks less than 10 seconds with me.
-See what cidolfas said.
-You’re wrong, there are thousands of people using it.
-It isn’t, I use the lite version which is very small.
-That is competition for you.

All in all, it seems that the only problem is that you are a lammer. Sorry for being so straightforward.

I can only receive messages from people who are in my list, so I don’t have that problem. [/b]

  • It shouldn’t play a fucking FOGHORN on startup anyway.
  • It’s done it on both of my computers, my friend’s computer, and my neighbor’s computer.
  • Good for you. It shouldn’t repeatedly say ‘USER NOT FOUND’ when I try to log in with what I KNOW I just registered.
  • That’s a crappy reason.
  • There are also thousands of people who do a lot of things. Given our current population of the world, that isn’t a lot.
  • Okay, I’ll give you that.
  • That’s not competition, that’s fucking with my stuff, and it’s shit. Hell, even AOL didn’t block me from using other connection services.

And you’re calling me a lamer because I think ICQ is stupid? Dude, you’re an idiot.

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Originally posted by Evangelion
Yeah well you just think you’re cooler than me in everything dont you.
No one’s cooler than you Eva. Will you marry me?

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Originally posted by Tomiko
No one’s cooler than you Eva. Will you marry me?

You will have to duel with me for that priviledge, and I am already dueling with some other two guys.

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You know, if we were all in prison you guys would be like, my bitches or homeboys or something blasphemic like that.

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Hades can’t we just get it on already? The flirting is driving me crazy.