What’s up with instant messaging?
Internet Messaging has always been a bit of a red-headed step child. Everybody has it, but no one really seemed to like it all that much. Even the term "chat" made it all seem so inconsequential.
And that makes sense. It’s a relatively "hot" medium for the Internet, demanding that you pay attention to an ongoing conversation where anyone you’re chatting with can demand as much of your time as they like. And there’s no real filters. The person demanding a response can be anyone from your best friend to that "so h0t grl with sexxxxy pics" that would very much like you to click on the link to her site, please.
But spam or no, before the rise social media IM was the primary way to hang out with people online. These days, between Twitter, Facebook and SMS messages I almost never open up my chat client at all. And the times I do end up in a messaging session it’s usually inside of another website, like Google Mail, Skype orin Facebook.
But if the old-fashioned one to one style of IM is dying, or at least evolving beyond recognition, it’s doing it quietly, with no one even bothering to report on the disappearance of what was once a major method of communication on the web.
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