ICQ Chat Task

First of all, I did not have Icq, have used MSN in the past briefly(didn't really hook me- could be the dial-up). So I downloaded and installed
ICQ didn't find this difficult.


Very unimpressed by the fact that icq took over my homepage by default though (How Rude is that?)


I already had a google account set up so that was one less thing I needed to do, so I checked the webct board and found a discussion stating that a group of students were hooking up for a chat at 7pm Sunday nights. So on January 25th I logged online and sent a message to Tess, who kindly added me to the list so I could join the group discussion.(thanks Tess & everyone else involved in the chat that night).

The chat moved fast and was quite interesting- I lagged a little as I only have a dial-up connection at the moment(hopefully I will have my satellite broadband installed in about 3 weeks). One thing I did notice is- that with icq the lag was shorter and more manageable, when I have tried to chat on MSN I lagged behind that much that it really was pointless to even bother(not to mention frustrating) using it as a method of communication and I found myself just using my mobile and texting instead.


I'm not a very chatty person and I really don't have much sparetime, even if I was. That said, I can totally understand why many people do use chat rooms as a way to communicate; it doesn't cost you any extra money, you can hold multiple conversations at once & you can still be working on your computer (multi-task plus).


When I finally get broadband I will try out msn & icq to chat with friends in otherplaces see if its more satisfying then- but for now it still hasn't hooked me...