i sounded like a person who just sat on a computer for the first time...sorry, im bad with introductions :\ anyways funny story. everytime i tried signing up for aim it needed my phone number, so i try that and it says my phone cant receive texts. uh okay i know i have a crappy tracfone but it still works. so i tried signing up using my facebook and i kept getting an error message. i'm more of a skype guy, does that work out? i'll try again tomorrow... thanks for the welcome, i hope i can get involved some more