As a confirmed shorthauler, I've only had one stint at the long range stuff and I was amazed at the apparent need of so many pilots to rabbit on to each other on 123.45, usually on totally non-essential trivia. I forbade its use on my flight deck and was thus less than popular with a lot of first officers.
My point is that if the spectrum authorities see fit to allocate natter frequencies, then fair enough, but it is quite irresponsible to use a frequency because "everyone else does" and 12345 is easy numbers.
Confundemus