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Free instant messenger with excellent privacy settings and video quality

Free instant messenger with excellent privacy settings and video quality

Vote: (173 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: Yahoo

Version: 9.0.0.907

Works under: Windows

Vote:

Program license

(173 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

Yahoo

9.0.0.907

Works under:

Windows

Pros

  • Same Yahoo! feel with better Facebook features
  • Great video quality
  • A good way to do a lot on the internet without going to a lot of websites
  • Always on mode is great

Cons

  • Feels a bit heavy
  • Too many things to use all of them

Yahoo! Messenger 9 is all the great parts of instant messaging mixed with the great parts of Facebook. Yahoo! Messenger 9 allows for its users to play games, hold real-time video and audio chats with friends, update their Facebook status, and so much more. It is a one-stop location for all internet needs.

Yahoo! Messenger 9 recently merged with Facebook in order to build a more modern system for Yahoo!. It has been a great change for them and taken Yahoo! into the new age of online chatting. Yahoo! Messenger 9 is an incredibly robust system. It can be difficult to get used to at first, but once users get ahold of it it can be very addicting.

The new merger brought many updates such as tabbing instant messages, saving recent contacts, listening to radio, using emojis, new games to play with friends, better archiving, and spam control. While it does have a new sort of Facebook charm, users should not be worried about losing the Yahoo! touch. The interface is more or less the same.

The major downside of Yahoo! Messenger 9 is the fact that it feels very heavy and can be hard to navigate at times. It would be much better if Yahoo! focused primarily on being a messenger and less on being all of the web in one location.

That being said, the video and call quality on Yahoo! Messenger 9 is good. It is very clear and is far better than other video systems on other social media websites.

One great feature of Yahoo! Messenger 9 is the Always On setting. Wherever users are, on whatever device you are using, users can stay up to date. In a world that is moving faster and faster each day, it is great to be able to stay caught up no matter wherever users find themselves.

Pros

  • Same Yahoo! feel with better Facebook features
  • Great video quality
  • A good way to do a lot on the internet without going to a lot of websites
  • Always on mode is great

Cons

  • Feels a bit heavy
  • Too many things to use all of them