People hate ICQ for many reasons. Some think it makes people forget of the real life and dip into the virtual reality from which there’s no way out… But this time we’d like to present a purely “techgeek’s” point of view…

That’s what Nugget thinks of ICQ:

The service is buggy. The protocol is insecure and brain-dead. Unix users are forced to use home-brew, unsupported, third-party client software which can charitably be called “beta” quality. It’s full of spammers. The average ICQ user makes AOL look like the Heritage Foundation. Their home page is cluttered and dizzying. The software is bloated. I hate ICQ. I use bitlbee for ICQ, via my IRC client, so I’ll only see your message if I’m paying attention to IRC.

There are only two reasons I use ICQ:

1. My ICQ Number is low, and therefore leet.
2. Everyone else does.

Well, he’s not the only one to hate ICQ. Charl van Niekerk gives his own reasons to hate ICQ:

I hate ICQ because of the following three reasons:

1. Their automated password recovery system doesn’t seem to work.
2. Their registration system is utterly slow.
3. It’s difficult to remember long ICQ numbers. It’s almost as bad as telephone numbers.