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[ladylove]

I love Gtalk and how it's really simple & clean (especially in comparison to the horrible MSN!)

I'm getting all my friends on it. I really loved when I could chat at work through my Gmail, but they've now caught on and blocked it!

Sigh.

[Evolix]

I love Google Talk, when I last downloaded it, it was less than 5MB I think. It's simple. Windows Live Messenger is like over 20MB. I'm using Google Talk right now.

[Iniyila]

Google talk is one of the best messengers i have ever used, and i still prefer it to any other one and here is why :

1. it is just lightweight and being lightweight keeps it away from crashing and freezing, just look at yahoo messenger i have seen it crashing a lot when i open it in my computer i can be sure that it will crash during next 10 hours without any doubt and it doesn't matter which operating system i use or which computer i use i can be sure about it crashing. but google talk is something different, open it and let it be open for days and days and it will not crash do anything you want with your computer like playing games, watching movies, web surfing and nothing can make it crash. it is always open and every time you receive a message it will show you but in yahoo messenger sometimes when it is crashed already but there is no sign of its crash (you can only find out that with checking cpu usage and of course with newer computers that have dual and quad cores and 4 to 8 threads it will only take your total cpu usage up to 25%, so when you saw that 25% you should now that your messenger is crashed) you will not notify about people sending you message until you close the open one and open messenger again.

2. google talk is simple, being simple is very important, having less useless functions means that you can be more sure about security and of course it doesn't slow down your computer. google talk now uses about 5MB of ram when it is open in my pc and this is just great open yahoo messenger or live messenger and they easily can get up to 200MB of you ram just in blink of an eye but gtalk is recources friendly and lets you to do anything you want without thinking about the RAM it occupies and play your games.

but anyway we should remember after many years there is lot of functions lacking in gtalk :

1. video call, this is really an indeed feature and many peoples need this feature in their daily messaging. google have put this feature in their mail chat section but they should put it in the gtalk too. there is a labs edition available that i thought it would have this feature but unfortunately it doesn't even have the old voice call and this is a big disadvantage of gtlak, in this section gtalk looses all of its points to other messengers like skype , yahoo messenger and windows live. i have said this many times that google have to update their messenger client before it is too late because many peoples have gone to other messenger because of video call feature.

2. emotiocns or smilies , these are indeed too i don't know why gtalk doesn't have one. gtalk labs edition comes with smiley support but it lack of voice call feature so it is again useless. i think google have to even extend their current smilies on the gtalk labs edition because they don't have enough smilies that you can find in other messengers.

so gtalk is one of the smallest and still functional messengers that because of being light and simple is one of the most favorite ones for me and my friends. but it need some serious updates with video call feature and some other useful features but they should still keep it simple, so i hope we can see a new version soon.