ICQ or 'I Seek You' is simply a way of getting in touch with people and
friends. ICQ makes it easy to find people with similar interests across the
globe, to establish new friendships, to communicate with colleagues, family
members and friends no matter when or where they are. And once friendships and
connections have been established you just need to go online to get in contact
without the geographic and time related limitations of the offline world.
The most popular method of communication on ICQ is instant messaging,
enabling you to send a message that immediately pops up on an online contact's
screen. But there's a lot more to ICQ than that.
With ICQ Instant Messenger you can video/audio chat, send email, SMS and
wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs. If you're away
from your personal computer you can still chat with friends and contacts, even
where the ICQ client is not installed, by using the web-based ICQ2Go that works
from any computer.
With ICQ 5 you can customize your ICQ to be exactly what you need and always
up-to-date by adding shortcuts to your favorite features in order to launch
them directly from your ICQ. This means that you can send your friends &
contacts greeting cards and invitations to games, multi chats, video sessions,
and more directly from your client and/or the message window. In the message
window you can also choose to display your photo or one of ICQ's unique,
animated devils.