ICQ

Pros: None
Cons: Everything!!

ICQ 2000b is the latest release of ICQ ("I seek you"), the popular instant-messaging program that lets you communicate with friends and colleagues in real time. To seek out a friend on the ICQ network, simply enter his or her ICQ number, name, nickname,...

Pros: Great way to talk on-line
Cons: No one

ICQ or “I Seek You” is a poweful and extremely popular internet chat program which lets you chat with anyone anywhere in the world who is connected to the internet (and of course also has the ICQ software). They give you their ICQ number, or find you on...

Pros: Cheaper than phoning, easy chat ability
Cons: Hard to download, problems with newest version

What is this product?: This is called ICQ and it is a small icon that runs on the bottom of your screen in your status bar (that thing with the start button in it! LOL)that has several different features. Among them are the ability for...

Pros: Realtime messaging and chat, file transfer, games, random chat
Cons: Security flaws, slow file transfer, abusive users

ICQ has become to the internet almost as essential and used as e-mail. It is one of the fastest growing networks I have ever seen, and it grows every day. Even computer illiterate people who barely know how to use e-mail are learning what ICQ is, and are...

Pros: It has a huge number of features when compared with other messaging software
Cons: Un-safe (not secure), connection problems.

Well, let's see. ICQ was the very first messaging software I ever used and I was amazed by it at the time (yet I still recall having a lot of connection problems). Yet, times have changed and ICQ really hasn't.

I've since used Yahoo!...

Pros: Helps increase communication with in your workgroup or office
Cons: A few missing features I would like to see added.

Most people consider ICQ solely an internet communication tool. Our data center, however, have taken this tool one step further by using it as a intra office communications system. This review will hopefully show how you can use ICQ in your workplace...

Pros: Customizable Buddy list/Lots of security.
Cons: None.

When I first got my Gateway it had this little thing called ICQ on it and I had no ideas to what it was, I waited a couple of months before I even checked it out,That was not until I had read about ICQ on epinions, It didn't take that long for it to...

Pros: Multiple conversations easier, better file transfer, more options
Cons: Confusing at first

It's an old debate by now, and the answer will probably never be clear. However, for many, ICQ will always be the one true messaging system.

Mirabilis created this little program and dubbed it ICQ, to represent it's true meaning - I Seek You....

Pros: Free, many features, fun
Cons: My ICQ phone won't work :(

I really love ICQ. I have tons and tons of people on my contact list and I think half of them I don't talk to. Anyway, I love this program, it is my favorite of them all. I currently have the 2000b version which is the greatest.

Alright, the...

Pros: Lots of people use it, very customizable
Cons: Newer versions take up more disk space, sometimes ICQ servers get wiggy on you

With the invention of ICQ, e-mail almost seems out of date and even a little too slow.

The Good:
All of my friends use it. Most people I know will get it because most of their friends are on it too.
No ads.
Ability to block out...

Pros: great way to communicate with internet friends
Cons: kinda complicated for my needs

I downloaded ICQ at the urging of some of my friends about 6 months or so ago. I didn't really care for it myself. I'm an AOL instant message user. I gave it a shot and probably would have continued to used it with a couple of friends had my computer...

Pros: Ease of use, very dependable
Cons: Can take a long time to download before installing.

Several years ago I first started online here at my home. Naïve to the ways that most of the cyber world operated and afraid of getting a computer virus.

I mostly used Email to communicate with my friends around the world and thought that...

Pros: FREE, ease of use, features
Cons: cpu usage

I have read several negative reviews on ICQ lately. This really did shock me. I have been a user of ICQ for several years now (can't remember exactly what year) and have found that it has been a lot more useful than other chat clients.

The...

Pros: Mostly easy to use, doesn't run up phone bill
Cons: impersonal, a little buggy

This is the first chat program that I have ever used and I have to say when I first used it I liked it a lot! I was able to real time chat with all my friends that I had not seen for the whole summer. Then, when I went overseas to visit my parents who...

Pros: ease of use, ability to bring people closer together
Cons: none - but people must be honest if they expect any good to come from it.

(This is my first e-pinion so forgive me if it does not follow the standard format. I wish to tell how icq has affected my life, not how easy it is to use or what kinds of features it has.)

3 years ago I was an active chatter at...