Naked bodies may be a turn on, but they are not as fun as msn instant messenger im sure? Msn instant messenger has only recently taken off, but now it is on at least 8 out of 10 computers, every teenager with the internet is chatting away on it.
About ------ What it is, is a basic chat program that identifies people by thier email address, eg: if your email address is markmayhem@hotmail.co, then you use that to sign into the messenger program, and people who want to chat to you can add you to thier list by typing your email address into a space provided. After that process is done everytime the person you added is online or comes online you will be able to tell by an icon. You can also do the same, if you know somebody with msn then you simply type there email address in the space provided and you can then chat to them via the program. You can have upto 100 people in your contacts list, and you can delete or block anyone you choose. There are many advanced features that you will pick up on the way as you use this program, such as `invite` you can invite many different people that are in your contacts list into one conversation window and it will act like a chat room. You can change your name on the chat program whenever you want via the menus as long as it does not include swear words it will be accepted. Also to make the chat more fun you can use little icons to spice your conversation, such as (L) will display a heart in you text. And (F) will display a flower. This is a deffinate must have if you are a teenager, because you can chat to ALL of your friends at once while you are online or ALL of them seperatly and you can also meet new people using it as well. The software is free so it cannot harm you to try it and I have not come across any bugs yet. The chat service is quite fast and you get notified if your message has not delivered to the person. Often the service can get what is known as `Network Problems` Which happens usually at peak times and it will not deliver all your messages. A handy feature for people with Microphones is the chat feature, you can communicate via the messenger program with a voice chat and hear each others voices.
In comparrison to other instant messengers, it is far more user friendly and has a better layout, but aim, aol instant messenger, is slightly more used as it is built into the dialer program so it runs all the time when you are connected with aol, but aim is far simpler and has very few features but it does work fine for basic chat.
The other most popular Messengers are... _-_-_-_ Yahoo -_-_-_- This messenger is basiclly the same as msn, however it does not have a chat facility. It has a few more pictures to make it fun and they are a bit better designed. But it is slightly more primitive and not quite as popular as msn. _-_-_-_
AIM-AOL -_-_-_- This is the most popular instant messenger on the web, but that is only because aol have intergreated it into their dialer program so anyone who connects to the net with aol is signed in. It is a simple design but a very effective chat program. It is easy to use and has block feature and warn features to people who anoy you. It doesnt look as flash at msn in design but underneath it is very similar. _-_-_-_
ICQ -_-_-_- This is a good comparason to msn as it has many members, and you can leave offline messages which people seem to like. Unfortunately I have not used this one so I dont know how to compare it. But I know it comes close. But I have to say that I prefer msn to any other one I have tried but thats my personal taste ;o) Latest The latest update of msn has produced a few new pictures, so here is a list of all the pictures that are now avaliable on the msn chat program: To send this pic - Type the following text in the chat window (Y) or (y) Thumbs up (N) or (n) Thumbs Down (B) or (b) Beer glass (D) or (d) Wine Glass (X) or (x) Woman pic (Z) or (z) Man Pic :-[ or :[ A Bat (}) A Person right ({) A Person Left :-) or :) A Happy Face :-D or :d Very Happy Face :-O or :o A Shocked Face :-P or :p Tounge ;-) or ;) Winking Face :-( or :( Unhappy Face :-S or :s Confussed Face :-| or :| Weird Face :`( Crying Face :$ or :-$ Shy Face (H) or (h) Cool Face :-@ or :@ Angry Face (A) or (a) Angel Face (6) Devil (L) or (l) Heart (U) or (u) Broken Heart (K) or (k) Kiss (G) or (g) Gift (F) or (f) Flower (W) or (w) Wilted Flower (P) or (p) Camera (~) Film Strip (T) or (t) Telephone (@) Cat (&) Dog (C) or (c) A Cup (I) or (i) Light Bulb (S) A moon (*) A Star (8) Music Note (E) or (e) Envelope (^) Birthday Cake (O) or (o) Clock (M) or (m) Msn pc (%) Handcuff`s Another update is the intergration with some of Microsofts games, Mig Alley, IW2: EOC & Netmeeting, this means, when you are chatting to some one all you have to do is press one button and the game or program will be launched and connected with that person. This is the biggest update I have seen, and now the program is streaks ahead of any of the other chat programs, and its design has changed so it uses fading colours, mostly shades of blue, to look very modern. So I suggest you get to the msn website, https://msn.co.uk and find this program, and if you already have it, well this update does not happen automaticly yet so I suggest you get to the site and find this version. But the old version will automaticly change to this version in early 2002.
Regards Dave