November monthly poll

[Computer Hope Admin]

For the month of November we thought it would be interesting to see how many contacts total you have in your instant messenger clients such as MSN Messenger, AIM, etc. Feel free to talk about how many IM clients you have if any, how many of your contacts are active, etc. I'd like to thank Kpac for his suggestion for this month's poll.

All past monthly polls and results can also be found on the Computer Hope poll page.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Nice Kpac.

I unintentionally managed to keep with MSN Messenger 7.5 without it forcing me to install Windows Live Messenger (one more reason to hate WLM).
Out of 103 contacts, an average of about 20 people are online.
About 2-5 people I speak to regularly.

I have Skype installed but it's only there to talk to my parents (when I'm away or they're away) and to my grandparents.

[Calum]

Currently, 42 contacts on my MSN account, using Pidgin.
At a guess I talk to no more than 20, maybe 5-10 regularly.
I need to clean up all my contact lists and information soon.
I don't use Xfire any more, but when I did I had, I don't know, 20 contacts or so, and talked to about 3.  Hence why I don't use it any more.
Skype - 2 contacts, talk to 1 occasionally.

[reddevilggg]

None, Nuff said!

[kpac]

I'd like to thank Kpac for his suggestion for this month's poll.

No problem.

I have about 15 I think, between MSN, and Skype.

[street1]

None.

By the way Nathan the site is much faster now,whatever you did this morning worked really well.

[computeruler]

on aim i have about 85 of which more than 1/2 dont sign on and on msn 40

[Zylstra]

101 contacts, including mobile.

Now, granted, a majority of them seldom log in, some of the accounts have changed, some of them are duplicates of the same people with different addresses.
9 contacts online at this very moment.

If you include home addresses and phone numbers, I have 201 contacts in my messenger list.

[Calum]

I now have 27 MSN contacts, and 1 on Skype.

[paul420]

No cam hense no Messenger..

[RandomGuy]

woo! lolll i have 104 contacts not including duplicates or non-messaging contacts on WLM 8.5

i love WLM as a messenger.. but when i tried out their WLM 9 beta release.. EEUURGH! its so ugly!  let alone hard to use.   -_-   come on, Windows Live! what do you think you're doing?!

[Emiel]

I have about 60 msn contacts, with an average of 8 being online most of the time. Normally i don't speak to more than 4 people at a time though.

[Panda25]

None.  I don't use instant messengers.  I find it easier to call people than to type to them.  I also don't have a web cam.

[Fawcie]

I only use mine 4 signing up for things....Xbox Live FTW!

[BC_Programmer]

5. My schedule however often prevents me from being online at the right times to catch them, except on my days off.

[ChrisXPPro]

Wow - not sure how some of you have time to breath!!!

I have two - but only one as currently allowed.  Purely a means to trans Atlantic vid communicate with an old buddy.  Not sure I'd have time and patience for more but then - I am an old geezer!

[BC_Programmer]

off topic- but


Does anybody else "appear offline" a lot of the time to dodge... chattersons? You know, the ones that will waste time going on and on about stuff when all you want to do is go to bed and sleep, and will pause to make sure you're really listening, for you to respond- ugh, it's like having another girlfriend or something...

[Calum]

I often stay offline or invisible until someone I actually want to talk to comes on.  I sometimes still stay invisible whilst talking to people - I can't deal with multiple active conversations at all.
I can talk to about 4 people at once at the very most, if they're not too demanding.  I don't IM a lot anyway really.

[soybean]

I have about 15 contacts in Yahoo Messenger but they were mainly set up for PC-to-phone calls, not IM.  I rarely IM; I've probably only used IM with two or three people in the last two years.  And, some of the phone contacts were only one-time occurrences, so I could really delete some of my contacts.   

[Zylstra]

I'm not a big "Appear Offline" fan unless I just need to talk to one person and dont plan on staying on very long at all... thus avoiding "g2g" on multiple conversations...

I do often set my status to Busy or Away though, especially when I have a headache.

[Bones92]

maybe its because i'm a teenager or something but out of 70 contacts on msn normally about 7 are online at any one time , and if 7 are online normally i talk to 4 of them.

but i say that, normally I pile them all into one window and just have a big confrence conversation, saves alt-tabbing...

out of 70 contacts maybe i talk to 25 or so regularly?

[BC_Programmer]

I stopped having multiple conversations, because in my clumsiness everybody get's confused.

[jill8beans2]

I only have a few.  It's amazing to me how people can get work done with so many messengers.  Everytime I'm on, someone sends me a message and I never get anything done. 

Good idea - bad idea!

[Jeanette13]

I have 36 contacts.About half don't come online at all. And I actively only talk to about 4 of them. And I do admit to stayinf=g offline untill i want to talk to someone online.I Mostly wait for those "4" to talk to.I used to use aim a lot.But Only 2 contacts every now and than show up there so Im only ever on MSN.

[Richard FDisk]

I don't use IM of any sort;

and I remove any contacts that are added automatically to my email also

cheers
►RfD◄

[Harrie47]

All tough i found computerhop i dont have any computer my self, eigther webcam.
But in a half year or so i might get a 2 GHz prossecer and 2GB RAM, is taht good??
*Smiles*

[computeruler]

depends what 2ghz cpu well anyways someone wanna close this?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

depends what 2ghz cpu well anyways someone wanna close this?

I don't see any reason to.....at least not yet.

[!*~.:Pink Floyd:.~*!]

off topic- but


Does anybody else "appear offline" a lot of the time to dodge... chattersons? You know, the ones that will waste time going on and on about stuff when all you want to do is go to bed and sleep, and will pause to make sure you're really listening, for you to respond- ugh, it's like having another girlfriend or something...

That describes me you can ask fireballs to.

[kpac]

off topic- but


Does anybody else "appear offline" a lot of the time to dodge... chattersons? You know, the ones that will waste time going on and on about stuff when all you want to do is go to bed and sleep, and will pause to make sure you're really listening, for you to respond- ugh, it's like having another girlfriend or something...

Always!

[computeruler]

depends what 2ghz cpu well anyways someone wanna close this?

I don't see any reason to.....at least not yet.

but its old 

[patio]

Well they usually just die a quiet death or slink away into the sunset...however if you keep posting here that will not take place.