Switching to a new instant messenger is not without it's quirks. My brother is on yahoo and everyone else I know is on ICQ and then I occasionally use IRC so I switched to a client that offers all of these plus AOL, MSN and Jabber. It works great for the messaging part but instead of away messages it has automated responses that lead to people thinking I am ass because of conversations like this:



????: r u there?

Brad: Away

????: are you here now?

Brad: Away

????: i wanna talk to you!

Brad: Away

????: quit saying away

Brad: Away

????: well don't you suck

Brad: Away

????: whatever!

Brad: Away



Just my luck, I choose and IM that behaves like it's 2-years old.