Before now, yahoo messanger sued to be the main online chatting tool used by a lot of people,but after facebook and some other social media came,it becomes a question if yahoo messanger is still very much useful as it used to be?
Yahoo! Messenger used to be popular long, long time ago, when there were just a couple of options, i.e. Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger. MSN Messenger became more popular than YM because it had more features, and it was even used by people who had Yahoo! email accounts, like myself. Then Skype came into the picture, and the others mostly died. All that was long before Facebook and Twitter appeared.
Yahoo! has been dead for some time already, even though the company has made some efforts to stay alive, it never worked. I wouldn't count with anything Yahoo! as being relevant today. It's just something form the past that ceased to exist.
Hm, I,m really impressed with your approach on this and like you rightly said"something from the past that CEASED to exist" or to say that something from the past that refused to die but yet not living. Could it be that yahoo is planning a big come back on it messanger or already lost the battle to facebook and the rest.
a question if yahoo messanger is still very much useful as it used to be?
@Adenji, I dont think Yahoo chat is popular these days. I think more than Facebook, gmail chat is popular. I have also seen people using skype chat a lot because it gives them the flexibility to do voice and video chat easily.
@tirlapur you are right. I think Yahoo! failed to quickly realise the innovative thing - integrating its messenger with others such as video now affecting it. For that, Skype, Google Voice and Facebooking have made yahoo kicking itself in the teeth.
"even there has not been a major upgrade". That's an evidence of lack of vision within its top echelon, may be am wrong. Unless we see something different happen Yahoo might end up in the hands of either Facebook or Google. Would any of them like to acquire it?
I typically use some chat programs that support multiple prococols such as yahoo, msn, facebook, etc. it proves to be useful to reach out to wide number of friends.
According to t.alex, from users' perspective tools doable to allow IMservices by integrating several profiles from most common socials, map better real needs. Focusing on Y-IM, there are also some limitations in the availability on service and several times it has been used for spam.
Some people i know say they shift away from ymessenger because they move to gmail. So previously they used yahoo mail and then once they move over to gmail they can also use gtalk from the browser. Yahoo messenger you can't do a voice call from the browser.
Well, in a such way, they have implemented the feature for calling other users conntected via browser or directly on mobile, but it is limited to some regions then not available abroad. It seems main focus is related to other applications for enriching webmail, not IM.
I have never used Yahoo Messenger at all. I have been using Skype for all my messaging and telecon needs for as long as I can remember. Since I have not used Yahoo Messenger, I am unable to compare Skype with it. However, because Skype is good enough for me, I don't feel the urge to try any other messaging/IP telephony applications out there either.
As hard as it may be to believe, I am a living proof that it is possible to live without Yahoo Messenger :)
Joke aside, when it comes to basic applications such as IP telephony, people tend to stick to what works for them and what they feel comfortable with and not to try other ones. It's only when the trusted application fails or becomes unreliable then they start to look around for alternatives.
My preference is Skype. That application offers all I need. I must admit that it has evolved quite significantly since the first time I ever installed it. It works like a charm !
You know you are right, many don,t actually get to know when a new application comes out while sometimes people find tryting a new application so challenging.
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