Yahoo! Messenger

Pros: Lots of features, if you want them, easy and fun to use.
Cons: Doesn't like firewalls - tends to disconnect a lot from networked 'puters.

Ever since I signed up with Yahoo! a few years ago, I've been finding more and more useful features within it. I rely on lots of Yahoo!'s features to organize and communicate my daily life, from email to online greetings, to photos, to news, to...

Pros: Allows Audio Chat; Very Easy to Use
Cons: Not as many people have it as ICQ, Get knocked off server occasionally

As a user of ICQ since its first release, I can definitely be classified as die-hard user. When I moved away from my family I was practically forced into trying Yahoo Messenger if I wanted to talk to them online.

Instead of text based chat...

Pros: Fun, easy to use, find friends, voice chat
Cons: None

This is another instant messenging program with great features. I love how you can leave a message for someone to read at a later time instead of writing them an e-mail. Similar to the other instant messengers, but also has a chat room called a...

Pros: tells you when you have mail
Cons: not many options, hard to connect at times

I use Yahoo! Messenger whenever I can't get AIM or ICQ working. Not a lot of my friends have it, for obvious reason, but I keep it for those rare instances when I have nothing else. Yahoo is easy to use, but it doesn't have a lot of options. It also...

Pros: You can see when friends are online, chat, and there are lots of nice features on it
Cons: disconnects a lot lately and sometimes messages don't get though

I have had the Yahoo messenger downloaded for about a year now and it is a pretty good service. I like a lot of the features on it and how easy it is to use. I use the messenger daily and one thing I especially like is how you can see when your friends...

Pros: EASE OF USE, ELEGANT DESIGN. (Those Little Lit Up Smiley Faces.)
Cons: NIL.

Simplicity of use and elegance in design make Yahoo! Messenger the best chatting tool I've ever used. Admittedly, I am a Yahoo! devotee, so I was biased in favor of this chatting tool even before I tried it. (Okay, okay, let me be up front: I happened...

Pros: Cool features, efficient, usually reliable
Cons: Tendency to crash, acts weird at times

I have been using Yahoo! Messenger since December of last year, and I have found it to be a great way to communicate with people I know and also chat with people I've never met before. Unlike ICQ, Yahoo Messenger is a small chat box that you and one...

Pros: Easy and fun to use
Cons: Sometimes slow or non-responsive if Yahoo's servers are having problems

I've tried ICQ, mIRC, AOL and AOL Instant Messenger. I rode with MSN Messenger through the AOL war (which MSN lost). Yahoo Messenger is by far the best and easiest to use. It's got interesting features, too.

For internet novices, the...

Pros: Easy to learn, few glitches
Cons: need someone to help you walk through it.

Well, i just love Yahoo Messenger. It is so easy to use. And so easy to teach. My parents winter 3,000 miles from home, so the phone bills can get out of control.
This past year I persuading them into purchasing a home computer to take...

Pros: it can do instant messages...
Cons: - if it connects!

I've been on the net for 4 years. I've tried many different networks. I've messed with tons of beta software. i've toyed with plenty of final software. so far, i have got to say that Y! Messenger isn't one of my favorites.

Yahoo Messenger (pc)...

Pros: easy, fun chatting
Cons: voice chat freezes

Yahoo! Messenger is not my favorite messenger but it's still a great one. It's nothing fancy like some messengers, but it does have many good options.

~Color~ You can change the color of your words and/or the color of your background....

Pros: save on long distance calls, easy to use, can see who is online
Cons: no problems at all

We got an invite to join Yahoo Messenger several months ago form my wife's Aunt that lives it Florida and we live in Indiana. They talk all the time with the voice chat. Then her cousin in Florida got a computer and and she got on it , then another...

Pros: An overall superior product. Thanks again, Yahoo!
Cons: Can't think of any.

I have used both the Yahoo! messenger and AOL's Instant Messenger, and found Yahoo! comes out on top with a vengeance. Why? Read on.

* Yahoo! gives you messaging. AOL does too. But AOL doesn't have what Yahoo! offers: portfolio-at-a-glance,...

Pros: Let's me know if I have mail in my Yahoo! account.
Cons: I have lost a few messages.

Recently, my cousin bought a computer and downloaded Yahoo! Messenger. She wanted to talk to me, and since I am on AOL and AOL takes so long to send email to any MSN email address, she talked me into downloading the messenger also. I must say, that was...

Pros: Perfectly integrated with Yahoo services--Check Yahoo Mail, view club member Profile, instant message with club members....
Cons: Your friends who are not Yahoo users and already have ICQ may not want to install it, which means you have to install both...

Again, this is another integrated function of Yahoo!Mail.

Let me start this way, I am still an ICQ user and have no problem with it at all. Lots of my friends use ICQ to communicate with each other and it works perfectly. I tried some other...