Comments on: Why I Gave Up On Instant Messaging

By: mridu

mridu — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:07:28 +0000

Well IM reminds me my first years on the web … first chat’s bla bla bla ….

It is “old school” for me ….. no no no i am not gonna give it up, Adium just opens with my mac and runs nice and quite, it doesn’t bothers me …. some habit’s is to be kept !!!!

good morning

By: Jim Myhrberg

Jim Myhrberg — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:26:54 +0000

I recently decided to “dump” IM networks as well. But I took a different approach. Namely, I’m trying to keep the cake, but also eat it at the same time.

I posted about it here: http://jimeh.me/blog/2010/02/10/was-i-really-that-social/

By: Lea Verou

Lea Verou — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:51:26 +0000

I’m a Live Messenger addict and I agree that it’s really time consuming. However, I have managed to use it far less than before by rarely initiating conversations myself and by having a “busy” status at all times, so that people are a bit hesitant to initiate a conversation themselves.

By: lexx

lexx — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:33:33 +0000

I only use skype and vent for gaming, no IM

By: Nick Andrik

Nick Andrik — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:03:51 +0000

I am quite IM-aholic and I don’t see it changing soon. When I am really busy I just disconnect from my faithful Pidgin or I just put Busy. People knowing me should notice that Busy state is going there so rarely that when it happens it must be serious. Also, away is put in automatic way to state the obvious.

Just to give you an idea of the “addiction”: I guess I am one of the few people that have used Pidgin (previously know as Gaim) for the last 5+ years in 4+ different operating systems and in 10+ different computers with the same (getting occasionally updated) configuration.

Also, before that, finger/talk and IRC would fill the gap. I guess there is no hope for my IM habits

PS: Please ping me when replying (you can use IM )

By: adamo

adamo — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:39:15 +0000

As you probably remember, I declared total IM bankruptcy back in 2006 for much the same reasons.

By: Giorgos Keramidas

Giorgos Keramidas — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:49:52 +0000

I’ve almost declared IM bankruptcy too, and yet Facebook is the one place that managed to make messaging more annoying than IRC or MSN, AIM, Yahoo, etc.

These days I am leaning towards deleting all IM accounts except those that let me relax a bit with 3-4 good friends. “Email should be enough for everyone” (famous last words)