{"id":8346,"date":"2005-12-08T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/12\/08\/im-mania.html"},"modified":"2005-12-08T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T16:29:16","slug":"im_mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/08\/im_mania.html","title":{"rendered":"IM mania"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have really gotten tired of MSN Messenger. Like, really <\/em>tired.<\/p>\n

See, to me, an IM client should let you, oh, send messages back and forth. It should let you see if someone is online. That’s — oh, about 99% of what I want.<\/p>\n

MSN seems to think that its IM client should also be your browser portal, your place to shop, your access to eBay, a place to advertise, a location to tell what kind of music you’re listening to, etc.<\/p>\n

As a result, it is the ugliest, most cluttered IM client I currently have. So I’m shutting it down. Instead, I’ll let the older Windows Messaging client handle both in- and out-of-office Microsoft messaging. I lose the little news blurbs, but that’s about it, and I can so live with that.<\/p>\n

Yahoo! IM is a decent IM client, too. It can be just as crufty as MSN Messenger, but it has very straightforward options for turning all that crap off. I actually prefer it to Windows Messenger, and for a shiny nickel I’d get rid of all my MS IM accounts and encourage folks to just use YIM.<\/p>\n

Or, of course, to use Google Talk, which I like best. Fast, simple, clean, easy. <\/p>\n

Seriously considering getting both sets of ‘rents set up with YIM or Google Talk over the holidays. That would be a real step forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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