100% this article. Google Talk was awesome, especially as MSN got more and more bloated and then once they forced into Skype and everyone's contact list got screwed up or people fled, it was like, yes, a clean client for use with friends. Then it turned to garbage. I'll have someone call and 4 different devices start ringing except the one I'm on, and then the others will continue to ring forever. I called my friend back when it didn't work and we had like 2 different voice calls going at the same time together. He works at Google and has to use it, so that's the only reason I keep it, I don't even know how to use it it's so confusing now.
Shower thoughts had me thinking just the other day how I wished we could have a new Pidgin like system. I have a hard time figuring out which friends use which platform and where I can get replies. I want to keep in touch with friends now that we all live in different places, but it's hard when everyone lives in a different chat app that you only have 2 contacts in. It was awesome when everyone just used one or two things.
The fallback to shitty text messaging is the only guaranteed medium for almost all people on one platform.
Shower thoughts had me thinking just the other day how I wished we could have a new Pidgin like system. I have a hard time figuring out which friends use which platform and where I can get replies. I want to keep in touch with friends now that we all live in different places, but it's hard when everyone lives in a different chat app that you only have 2 contacts in. It was awesome when everyone just used one or two things.
The fallback to shitty text messaging is the only guaranteed medium for almost all people on one platform.