Free Chatting Options for Digiscrappers

If you know me, you know that I like my chatting. (My sister is nodding her head!) I’m very much a people person & I enjoy chatting real time in contrast to email.

Now you’re maybe thinking, why is she talking about options for chatting? Well, I quickly found that my friends preferred various chat clients. I tried to convince all of them that Hello was the best, but that didn’t work. Some are on Yahoo messenger & other’s prefer MSN messenger. There is also AIM & Google Talk.

So what’s a girl to do? Well, there’s something like a blog reader, but it’s for chatting. It’s called Meebo.com Here’s how it works:

• create an account
• enter your log in information for each chat account you have (Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Google Talk) & you don’t need to have all 4 - I use two of them
• To log in to chat is easy:
  • Open this page & use one log in
  • All of your friends will be in one box (yes, they can coexist)
  • And you can ‘undock’ the friends box outside the browser so that it can be minimized.
• Downside - you need to keep that browser open
• Upside - MSN was giving me headaches by logging out all the time & that doesn’t happen anymore. I’m also thinking that I can uninstall MSN from my computer (which is famous for spyware) & just chat thru Meeb. Meebo remembers your last session with a person when you open the chat box with them - I like that!

Finally there is Hello.com that we all know & love! Hello is ideal because you can transfer images so fast. And the chat logs are easily accessible & they contain the images. Files can also be transferred thru Hello. Unfortunately Hello isn’t a part of Meebo, but logging into only 2 is quite workable.

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