I used to use nothing but ICQ but as of lately I pretty much just use it to see who is on and leave a quick message for those that have not switched to another program yet. A few years ago it was a really good program. And then they upgraded. They removed individual sounds for each person on the list. The cam and voice setting became extremely poor. They kept changing it and now it is pretty much one of the lamest chat programs. I switched to msn live messenger. And now, they removed the blog from your personal icq site. So now you have to jump back and forth. And they lost the last few blog entries I made. I see the need for updates, don't get me wrong, but when everything good is removed and empty promises of how great it will be turns out to be bunch of shit. Then, yes, ICQ updates are not good. I think they should go back and see what people really liked, and start over from there.