Back in the 1996 I could keep in touch with all my friend (the one with internet access) using e-mail and ICQ, then (in 2001) it comes MSN and after its inclusion into windows XP, ICQ slowly started to become silent (for me). Thank to a universal client I was able to use both, but eventually I had to left ICQ.
Now everyone is moving to facebook, and my msn contact list is becoming empty, I'm not going to subscribe to facebook, there many reasons why I don't like it, so this time I'l just wait "next step".
Cya
