You don't need Photoshop or some other advanced piece of software to resize a large number of images at once. You can use Microsoft Office Picture Manager which is part of the Office suite.
If you don't want Google to store your chat history and the Google chat history of the person you are chatting with, you can take the chat off the record and this is how you do that.
If you are on a certain data plan on your mobile provider, and don't want to exceed it, you can set data usage warning and a limit which can help you save some of your money.