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.