Why the world needs Google Talk

[gekko]

Shut your mouth chump. Everyone who uses GTalk, loves it.

Pretty much you need to ask and find out, or add everyone you know with a Gmail addy. Usually you only find people by asking, and they say "You use GTalk? OMG, I love GTalk, but I can't find anyone who uses it." Then you become best friends.

Then slowly login to AIM less and less, and they will start logging into GTalk more and more to talk to you. I know people who no longer login to anything else. Good for them.

[Bond]

Here's what will happen if you try to use GoogleTalk:

Day One. OMFG GoogleTalk is awesome.

Day Two. Oh - no one uses GoogleTalk!

Day Three. I think I'll go back to AIM.

[KillerGremlin]

aye, it would take me years to convince everyone on my buddy list to drop aim and switch to something else...and that presents a perplexing enigma of complexities because i'm sure the 170 friends on my buddy list each have their own 170 friends to convince to switch over and so on...so it seems like it would be less work to just run a open source aim client and just go with the flow

i mean, that's like trying to convince all the people on my buddy list the ipod isn't the end all music player