Comments on: Instant Messaging?

By: jerichokb

jerichokb — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:28:10 +0000

I’ve found the same, really – IM for me is pretty much dead. However, I know that my younger sister is pretty much as addicted to it as I used to be – so perhaps it’s just a young teenage thing?

By: Thor-Rune Hansen

Thor-Rune Hansen — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:26:20 +0000

Meh, to me, this is not the case. There has allways been both instant and non-instant messaging things online (‘allways’ as in since i started actively uing it), and there’s still a use for both (usually longer) non-instant messages, and the instant messanging conversations. I currently talk more over IM, really, and it’s more like a real life conversation…

Also, some talk over facebook or similar with constantly updating their wall or inbox or guestbook, so the conversation really has the speed of a IM-conversation!

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:01:06 +0000

@Owen Rudge: “I spend more time doing things that don’t involve being on the computer these days” …. Haha, yeah right

By: Owen Rudge

Owen Rudge — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:58:00 +0000

Hmm, I also have found that I tend to use MSN less, mainly since coming to university back in 2005 (which is also when I got on Facebook, although of course back then it was a university-only thing). Or perhaps it’d be better to say that the number of people I speak to on MSN isn’t as high as it once was – it tends to be a closer group of friends I speak to on MSN, and I guess occasional randoms when they have forum or web site-related things to talk about. Otherwise, random messages are indeed more likely to go on Facebook. A number of my friends are also in assorted IRC channels, so that’s another less intrusive way of speaking to them.

Part of it is probably also the fact that I spend more time doing things that don’t involve being on the computer these days, too, of course!