And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

[COSGringo]

So I have to do an instant messenger for work.

Was thinking maybe setting one up to talk to my homies here at MWO. Otherwise I generally hate these things.

Phone calls are tough for me since I have a lot of con calls and mess for my job.

Anyone up for doing this and what platform if any do you have a preference for? Such as yahoo, MS messenger, Trillian, etc.

Or is no one else sitting in front of a PC very often?

Thx,
COS

[StuckinLA]

And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

I'm in front of my Mac continuously. So a messenger might be a nice option, but I'm not quite ready to break away from my lovely anonymity, either...

Others might feel differently. I think I'd rather learn how the chat feature works on this site, and maybe try to lead a push for people to sign in to that more frequently...

Just my thoughts.

[COSGringo]

And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

The problem with the chat on here is no one is ever on it. And it's real clicky.
You would have anonymity on a messenger. You just pick a handle. You can always start a spam e mail. You should always have one. Mine is cosgringo. Ha!

Anyways, take care.

[spacebebe01]

And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

I do have msn messenger but I think its in my real name tho Ive never used it so I wouldnt really know. Yep, I do get the thing with chat on here, whenever Ive gone on its 98% empty, then 2% cliquiey so havent ever managed to talk to anyone on there.. The other thing is we are all doing things in different time zones but mostly for me I can only chat when I can, if that makes any sense, put me on the spot and my mind can go blank and I will just be the one sitting there looking like Ive gone off somewhere because I cant think of anything to say. So my long winded answer is yes, I could set one up I think, but whether I would make it is another thing.

[COSGringo]

And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

I hear you space. It should not be your real name. You can set it up other ways and we could use another messenger. There are tons of them out there. If we had enough folks it would be just enough of us to tune in now and then. It just sits there on your PC or Mac.
If you are away you set it as away. If you are there, you set it as you are there.

So one could use it when he/she wanted to accept messages and you can see when you have friends online. You can even set it as busy if you don't want to be bothered.

I can just pick a messenger, send instructions on how to set it up with your nickname and see who bites.

I think I will just do that and will get back to all.
Thanks space.
I hope you are doing well. I don't always get to read through all the posts. It's just too much as I have to get some of my work done and there's a lot of it.
COS aka gringo

[StuckinLA]

And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

Ooooooohhhhh. I get it, Colorado Springs Gringo, right? That took me waaayy too long to figure out, I was so confused.

Yeah, messenger sounds cool.

[COSGringo]

And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

Yes, I have that from a long time ago. I was on a Mexico forum when I was planning a trip down that way. It was called something gringo so I went with COGringo. That was taken so COSGringo.
I've just stuck with it. I have like a dozen passwords I need to know for my job and mess so I don't need a dozen nicks!

[spacebebe01]

And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

I am embarrassed to say I never got the COS:blush:

[spacebebe01]

And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

It will take me time to set up messenger, I am slooooww......

[COSGringo]

And another thing- anyone up for a instant messenger?

OK, let's try MSN Messenger. Not my favorite but there is a MAC version I believe so we can all talk.
I set up a group called MWO but not sure how that will work.

You need a odd e mail account so I would suggest setting up a gmail account using your nickname from here. I set up a cosgringo@gmail.com. You need an e mail account to do this so don't use your regular e mail unless you want to.

When you set it up use your nickname for your first and last name. You have to add a birthday and zip code. Put in whatever you feel like.

When you install it, I just installed the messenger so don't use the automated install. It's really not hard to do.

You can download it from here- Messenger - With Messenger, bring your conversations to life


When you want to add contacts you usually do by e mail. So mine is cosgringo@gmail.com.

So you do need an e mail address. If you want to set up a gmail account, just go to gmail.com.

It's good to have a junk mail account in case you sign up for things you don't want sent to your normal email accounts. Soooo, it's good to have this either way.

It's easy to do this believe me.
Let me know if you have problems.

If you don't want to bother no worries.

Again, I am at cosgringo@gmail.com and then I will appear as cosgringo on messenger.