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| Jul - General Chat - Daily Poll #4: Still use AIM? |
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| You know, AOL Instant Messenger. | |||
| I still use it |
3.0%, 1 vote | ||
| I used to use it a lot |
42.4%, 14 votes | ||
| I used it a little bit |
9.1%, 3 votes | ||
| I never used it |
33.3%, 11 votes | ||
| So much for 'daily', huh |
12.1%, 4 votes | ||
| Multi-voting is disabled. 33 users have voted. | |||
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Xkeeper Level: 243      Posts: 22554/23358 EXP: 224354326 For next: 2561294 Since: 07-03-07 Pronouns: they/them, she/her, etc. Since last post: 17 hours Last activity: 6 hours
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| You may have heard that AIM is shutting down mid December this year.
I wrote about it already, but I'm curious where everyone else stands. I logged in and saw just a few people, but it looks like they might just be people who had mobile information set, or probably just never signed out from things like Trillian. |
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Bloodstar 11240     bumblin' stumblin' robots Level: 177  Posts: 11197/11240 EXP: 74863109 For next: 380567 Since: 07-06-07 Since last post: 23 days Last activity: 8 hours
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| Still use it. Not as much as I used to, but I still use it.
Kind of irritated they're killing it, honestly. There goes something that was easy to use on anything (and migrating a few people over) |
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Xkeeper Level: 243 Posts: 22555/23358 EXP: 224354326 For next: 2561294 Since: 07-03-07 Pronouns: they/them, she/her, etc. Since last post: 17 hours Last activity: 6 hours
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Originally posted by Sanqui MSN seemed to be more favored outside of the US, thought I can't imagine why 
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Eppy37 6230  Alisa~Level: 137  Posts: 6222/6234 EXP: 30854337 For next: 18518 Since: 07-23-07 Pronouns: he/him From: Boguslovania Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 3 days
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| I used it a long time ago. Haven't touched it in forever. I recall having my birth date in my name because I created it when I was young and couldn't think of anything better... |
Lunaria Moon Bunny! :3 Level: 131  Posts: 5330/5556 EXP: 25943501 For next: 481119 Since: 07-28-07 Pronouns: she/her From: pile of fluff Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 6 hours
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| Yeah I used MSN back in the day, it wasn't until years later that I heard about AIM, but at that point it was already on the decline and skype was the new hot great thing.... funny how that one went. |
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xdaniel 730  Level: 54  Posts: 662/733 EXP: 1162164 For next: 71706 Since: 12-04-08 Pronouns: he/him From: Germany Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 3 hours
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| I used to use it back when we had AOL itself as our ISP, so before 2005, but even then I mostly used ICQ, aside from for maybe 2 or 3 people who only had AIM. Never had MSN, tho other people I knew used it around 2007, 2008 or so.
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RanAS Member Level: 37  Posts: 281/422 EXP: 311765 For next: 26488 Since: 10-10-14 From: Brazil Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 10 hours
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| I never used AIM, and I don't really know what it was like. I've used MSN in the past for a short period of time, but I also only had like a couple of people to talk to.
I never found myself too fond of instant chat services, for the most part I feel like I don't really have anything to say or contribute. Sometimes I don't really bother logging in as well, such is the case with Discord (usually a few days at most) and IRC (for three months! wow). |
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Delpolo The local lurker. Level: 55  Posts: 732/736 EXP: 1243440 For next: 70749 Since: 09-12-07 Pronouns: he/him/his Since last post: 64 days Last activity: 6 hours
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Originally posted by LunariaSame here, in grade school MSN was popular (I remember some friends 'competing' to see who could add as many friends on MSN as possible) and I stuck with it for all of high school, but at some point Skype took over, and then people just moved on to Facebook's direct messaging... MSN and Skype allowed for group chats but I barely made use of it, so I suppose that's why real-life friends just moved on to FB. I only ever heard about AIM when I found Jul and it had profile fields for it. I still use IRC and Discord actively, but I don't really think many of my school friends would bother to use either of them... |
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Kak ? Level: 71 Posts: 1632/1767 EXP: 3058516 For next: 108598 Since: 09-03-13 Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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| I never really used any of those programs - back in 2008-2009 my parents were using MSN to communicate with other relatives; but it didn't go any further than that (and I didn't use it myself either)
by the time I started to communicate with others online (2013) all of these programs were dead. oh well |
sofi 🌠 Level: 105  Posts: 3468/3796 EXP: 11978906 For next: 283354 Since: 02-18-11 Pronouns: she/her From: たまごっち星 Since last post: 21 days Last activity: 4 days
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| everyone i talk to is on IRC or FB or IRL.
AIM was a huge part of my life, but that’s in the past. |
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sofi 🌠 Level: 105  Posts: 3469/3796 EXP: 11978906 For next: 283354 Since: 02-18-11 Pronouns: she/her From: たまごっち星 Since last post: 21 days Last activity: 4 days
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Originally posted by Xkeeper ur on my friends list in my heart forever |
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Rick M'Lord, there's a knife in your head! Level: 142  Posts: 7268/7359 EXP: 34526182 For next: 442247 Since: 02-15-10 From: Maine Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 20 hours
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| It was my primary messenger for years and years and years.
I've been trying to move on from it personally, though, as of right before it shut down. Just no one was on it anymore and the new AIM was complete and utter garbage to use. |
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Xenesis Actually a Doctor Level: 92  Posts: 2398/2483 EXP: 7751217 For next: 5720 Since: 07-28-07 Pronouns: he/him From: The Land of Kangaroos and Drop Bears Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 1 hour
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| AIM never caught on in my circles in Australia so I never used it. Everyone around me went ICQ -> MSN -> Facebook, more or less. |
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Xkeeper Level: 243 Posts: 22562/23358 EXP: 224354326 For next: 2561294 Since: 07-03-07 Pronouns: they/them, she/her, etc. Since last post: 17 hours Last activity: 6 hours
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| ICQ was really interesting just because everyone was a number. No concept of screen names or things for a while. |
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Tarale Catgirl C:\ DOS C:\ DOS RUN RUN DOS RUN Level: 78  Posts: 1100/1680 EXP: 4316688 For next: 65538 Since: 07-23-07 Pronouns: she/her Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 27 min.
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| Ah, AIM. Yeah, I used AIM a lot. Like Xenesis said, it never caught on in Australia, but I didn’t have a lot of Australian Internet friends! Back when I was involved with the Final Fantasy VII Citadel, I was chatting with a lot of Americans and Canadians, so AIM was the thing.
It was with much loathing that I eventually used MSN. Oh and I used ICQ before that, but I never really got a lot of friends on it, so much as I did some internet tough guy talk to creepy perverts who saw I was a girl online. |
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Xkeeper Level: 243 Posts: 22567/23358 EXP: 224354326 For next: 2561294 Since: 07-03-07 Pronouns: they/them, she/her, etc. Since last post: 17 hours Last activity: 6 hours
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| Good lord, FF7C. I never really remembered anything about it, but I recall stumbling across it during one of my Acmlmboard history safaris a few months ago.
I feel old. |
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Shadic 6880 Alakadoof? Level: 143  Posts: 6827/6883 EXP: 35798680 For next: 33128 Since: 07-22-07 From: Olympia, WA Since last post: 17 days Last activity: 2 days
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| In the past two years, I went from using it daily to... Never using it. I guess they timed its demise well. |
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