MSN Messenger dying off?

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Does anyone still use MSN Messenger? I have noticed that hardley nobody uses it anymore.

Could social networking web sites be the cause for this? its quite bizzare how the internet has certain fads. The first IM program I used to use was ICQ, which is now dead (in the UK at least), then it was MSN which is dying off. Can you see Facebook dying off in a similar fashion in a couple of years time? and being replaced with something else? as Facebook replaced Myspace.

Im currently beta testing the new MSN Messenger, and I have to say, its awful, reminds me of the version that killed ICQ off
 
I don't use it as much as I used to, certainly sites like facebook have taken a dent out of its usage but the real reason I've stopped using it - haven't even reinstalled it on my PC since upgrading the OS and only use it on my phone - is due to how its changed. You now have to install some horridly bloated extra package of software, even if you unselect most of the crud its still a big bloated install and the application itself has become bloated and clumsy with lots of features I don't have any use for.
 
You could be correct there, I do think IM software will end up being intergrated into mobile phones in the near future as standard. Blackberry Messenger seems to be taking off.
 
I've definately noticed less people using it on mine, and I use it a lot less. Although I dislike facebook chat mainly due to its unreliability that's what I tend to use the most because most people are on that.
 
I use it a lot. It would help if it was just a messenger rather than having all this Windows Live crap lumped into it, in a desperate and poor attempt to compete with Facebook.
 
I moved almost all my IM usage to Skype. It offers virtually everything MSN/WLM does (basically everything except RA), is leaner, more useful, faster (file transfers), offers VoIP as a bonus, and is encrypted as standard iirc. IRC, ICQ, MSN, Skype... pretty much in that order. I still use IRC quite heavily actually, but the others pretty much died off in that order. :p
 
Tute said:
I use it a lot. It would help if it was just a messenger rather than having all this Windows Live crap lumped into it, in a desperate and poor attempt to compete with Facebook.
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+1 I agree, I still have MSN on my laptop, however over time my friends and slowly started fazing it out, as Facebook's messenger service is easier to have open as I tend to have facebook open on a tab. I used to have MSN on auto-open when the computer turns on, but i've turned it off. I guess this is related to facebook taking over, but also because I never use it. A significant part of MSN which Dangerous uses it for, was the hotmail link, my first email address was with hotmail, so MSN and hotmail went hand in hand being able to notify new emails. Gmail has kicked out hotmail, so that part of MSN has gone. So, I believe its fallen with the times, everyone's moved on as other programs/websites have introduced the specific gains of MSN into their stuff.
 
Tute said:
I use it a lot. It would help if it was just a messenger rather than having all this Windows Live crap lumped into it, in a desperate and poor attempt to compete with Facebook.
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Yeah. The last really good WLM/MSN client was 7.5. That wasn't blinged up with rubbish and you could tweak it with A-Patch to run a really streamlined program. Nowadays I think WLM is so bloated you might as well find another MSN client.

Captain_Slick said:
*shrugs*

Just use Pidgin.
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Ditto. I wonder if its the MSN protocol that is experiencing a decline in popularity, instant messaging as a whole dying off or just Microsoft ballsing up WLM.
 
FishThrower said:
You could be correct there, I do think IM software will end up being intergrated into mobile phones in the near future as standard. Blackberry Messenger seems to be taking off.
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messenger is already on phones as standard? every sony ericsson ive had came with it installed
 
Still going strong here, but then I don't paste my personal life across the internet on social networking sites

MW
 
I never could understand with every new release why a program with the insultingly simple task of sending text messages to one another could become even more bloated and slow than it's predecesor. I didn't notice since getting a good PC but on the rubbish family PC's of old the new version taking up a 50mb more ram could be a deal breaker. Not to mention prompts forcing to you upgrade to later versions for absolutely no benefit but clear disadvantages.

Deserves to die to be honest.
 
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