I am currently using Trillian Astra, and it’s GUI is very intuitive and easy to navigate as well as being very appealing eye candy.
+1 
None.
If someone wants to get in touch with me that urgently, they can use the phone, or call around.
That’s fine for your relatives and friends that live close by. Not so easy or convenient when the people you communicate
live far away or on the other side of the globe.
Very true, Bob.
One of the advantages of having no friends, I guess. ;D
Sometimes voice or video chat with ICQ or Google Talk.
It will be nice when Pidgin can do voice & video.
None ;D
I don’t use much. but will be on gtalk almost all time.
nmb
Yahoo 
Pidgin, very rarely.
Agreed,
This works for me.
This also works for me.
NADO=Not a damn one,
Dont need em,dont use em,no dreck.
I was using live messenger but now yahoo messenger because I wanted to try the new features in the yahoo messenger!
Aol instant messenger, ever since the days of my 400mhz Compaq Deskpro with the slow as molasses AOL 56k.
It works, most of the people I know use it.
I also use Teamspeak to get ahold of people directly considering I’m an administrator for a large gaming community, I don’t know if that’s considered an instant messenger.
Trillian was nice, I enjoyed being able to run Y!, MSN and AIM and have them all in the same place, quite convenient, although when I used it it didn’t have tabbed windows which drove me nuts.
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[][font=Segoe UI]Trillian in Windows
[][font=Segoe UI]Pidgin in Ubuntu
~Yahoo Messenger 9
~Skype
Pidgeons
brgds
mack