5 Top Messengers To Have a Little Chat With Your Friends

Today there are lots of chatting going on in the net! Most of the people come online to chat with their friends! Because of this, the messenger has become a very important tool when your using a PC. So, Do you have a good messenger with you? Want to try out a new one?

Today we are going to talk about several popular messengers that we can use to communicate with our friends. Some of them supports only one protocol, but some of them supports many! Lets see what are they :

Windows Live Messenger :

Windows Live Messenger

Make it personal

Add pictures or short videos of yourself that can change with your mood, let people know what music you’re listening to, and customize the scene in the conversation window.

Your favorite people

Add the people you chat with the most to your list of favorites at the top of your contact list. As soon as they’re ready to chat, you’ll see their profile pictures light up.

Share photos

Drag photos right into the conversation window and show them off while you’re chatting. You can also let contacts save your photos on their computers.

Updates from contacts

See what your contacts have been up to lately, automatically. The what’s new area gives you a glimpse of any new blogs or photos they’ve posted, new contacts they’ve added, and more.

Send SMS messages

If someone you’re chatting with has to leave their computer, you can still use Messenger to send an SMS text message to their mobile phone.*

Trillian :

Trillian

Functional and powerful chat

• Chat with video and audio
• Tabbed chats with text, emoticons, and pictures
• Get in style with themes and skins
• Use animated widgets to broadcast your status

Information at your fingertips

• Connect to WLM, Google, Facebook, and more
• Show contacts and social news feeds
• See the status of your contacts at a glance
• Receive real-time notifications of changes

Efficient and sophisticated

• Minimize your IM world with Trillian Cobalt
• Search and archive chats with activity history
• Extend your Trillian possibilities with plugins

Digsby :

Digsby

Instant Messaging

• One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts.
• If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.
• Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.
• Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM’s. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.

Email

• Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby.
• Perform actions such as “Mark as Read” or “Report Spam” right from the email InfoBox.
• Send emails to your friends right from the IM window. The email is sent directly from any account digsby is tracking for you.

Social Networking

• Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn accounts.
• Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc.
• Set your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn status right from Digsby.

Pidgin :

Pidgin

Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.

Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Looking for Pidgin for OS X? Try Adium!

Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins.

Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin’s functionality above and beyond the standard features.

Nimbuzz :

Nimbuzz

Connect with all your friends at once

IM your friends across all popular instant messaging and social networks and have a real chat, in real time, for free!

With one secure log-in you can access Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace, Gadu-Gadu, Hyves and many more. Plus, you’ll never forget a name or number by storing all your important contacts in the Nimbuzz Phonebook.

Call your friends for free

Use Nimbuzz to call your friends for free no matter where they are and enjoy unbeatable audio quality and ease-of-use, powered by the latest state-of-the art audio engine.

Low-cost international calls with NimbuzzOut

Buy NimbuzzOut credits and make low-cost internationals calls direct from your PC to landlines and mobile phones anywhere in the world.

Share and interact

Share music, movies and photos with your friends across all supported communities.

Get your friends online

Friends are offline? Send them a Nimbuzz Buzz to let them know you want to get in contact.

My Choice :

Actually, all the messengers mentioned above are perfect. But still, we need only one right?

First of all, Windows Live Messenger : This sure is a great messenger with lots of cool features. Earlier this was my only hope! Mostly I liked its cool interface. But, the problem is, it only uses windows live protocol! I usually use google and live both. So live messenger went out of my list.

Next, Trillian : At the first time I used this, it seems to be pretty nice. With a cool interface and effects. And it also supports multiple protocols! But the thing is, its a bit too much for me. Thought that I wanted a more light messenger.

Digsby : This is also a really cool messenger. The main thing that I liked in Digsby is that the ability to store our details online, so that we need to use only one user-name and password to connect to all of them. But it had some issues in my system. So, its off my list as well.

Nimbuzz : A great messenger that I used recently. Like Digsby, it will allow us to store our data online. The most important thing is that this messenger is also available for your mobile phone. So, now I’m using it on both my mobile and my windows system. (Actually, I’m not using my windows system that much)

Pidgin : This little messenger have most of the things that I need. Support for multiple protocols, Availability for Linux and also the ability to add more functionality through external plugins! So, finally, I settled with Pidgin!

Now, What is your choice? What did you choose out of this list? Or, do you know about a more better messenger? If so, please feel free to share them with us!…. Happy Chatting!