One very amusing feature with Gtalk (google talk- IM Messenger) is the status messages. Though we had these in Yahoo IM aswell, the Gtalk status messages is the most widely used. 1. coz it allows links 2. it is more readable to the people we are chatting to 3. it makes even the longest of quotes easily readable in the small space provided 4. its easy to change the status message without opening any settings page or a new window.
Some of my recent status messages are:
