# ICQ- Last Left Standing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icq-last-left-standing/262748>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 2, 2004, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icq-last-left-standing/262748 "2004-09-02T11:08:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icq-last-left-standing/262748/21 "2004-09-03T10:55:05Z")

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I started with ICQ and made tons of friends with it. But they gradually moved on, and the last few times I logged on, no one was active. I tried the Trillian route, but it gave me problems - maybe it was my old computer.

I use AIM to talk to my daughter and MSN to talk to my first BF (just talk - he’s also married with kids, living almost 3000 miles away) and I catch **twikster** on Yahoo once in a while. I don’t have nearly as many on line conversations as I did 5 years ago.

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**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icq-last-left-standing/262748/22 "2004-09-03T12:22:06Z")

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Started in '96, used it for about 5 years. Loved it then, hate it now - it’s gotten too complex and messy. I’ve been using MSN for the past 3 years, and I like that they haven’t made it an ICQ clone. Yet.

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