>Hi does anybody out there us a webcam to IM with anybody else. I have an exchange student here for a year and she wants to use the webcam to talk to family and friends. Is there an app that is especially designed for that?? MS Netmeeting works sometimes but most of the time it does not.

Have you tried Windows Messenger? You can text, audio or video chat (or all 3 at once). I used it all the time.

For XP: http://messenger.microsoft.com/default.asp?client=0
For Other Windows: http://messenger.microsoft.com/default.asp?client=1

In the past I had difficulting with NetMeeting.