Why can't i make an ichat account?

Question

when i click on ichat nothing happens and i says that i dont have an account. and plus it wont even let me make one?
HELP!!

Answer 1

Hi,
iChat 4 and 5 did have a Button in the Add Account Screen that did send you to either the @mac.com Registration page or the AIM one. This Button is not there in iChat 6 which means that for all type of accounts you have to sort you Screen Name first.
@mac.com Registration Page
Notes on this.
Password must be kept to 16 characters or less due to the Limit at AIM
The Linked Email account you list must not be associated with another Apple ID.
AIM registration Page
Can be an email you use elsewhere.
Any secondary email listed is for password recovery only  (it is not Hard Linked like the Apple page)
You can also register for iCloud which will give you an @me.com name (only then useable in iChat 6).
Older MobileMe  @me.com names will work in earlier versions of iChat.
These three types above can have buddies of those type in the same list as all the Buddy Names and Valid with AIM.
GoogleTalk requires that you have:-
1) A Google Mail ID
2) Have enabled Talk on your Google account settings.
Google run a Jabber server as do Facebook.
There are many other Jabber servers with which you can register but many do not do this through a Web Browser - instead relying on the registration module of a Jabber app.
Like an Screen Name that logs in to the AIM Service the Jabber ones can similar add other Jabber Buddies.
7:15 PM      Friday; November 11, 2011
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