The death of the IM
For years IM was the way for me to keep in touch with friends, and make friends, both near and far away. But sometime in late 2001 the wonder, wow and awe of IM'ing began to vanish. I think this first started around the end of the tech boom of the 90's as companies were beginning to see Instant Messaging as a useful tool for increasing office productivity and information sharing rather than just as a toy. It started first with IT companies, and slowly filtered down into a lot of other ordinary companies all over the world. During this same time, friends I saw online regularly began to slowly vanish off ICQ, AIM and other locations as fun became work and IM's were no longer something they enjoyed. Then came the viruses and spam as hackers and scammers began to realize the potential bounty of victims that filled the halls of the internet. When that came, even more vanished. Then came IM advertising. More vanished. Then IM changed again and threats of "per message fees" and IM wars came about. More people vanished. So the more that Instant Messaging matured, the more it died. I've found myself using IM at work a lot to help speed up communication, especially interstate communication between myself and our engineers. Many times it's even more useful than calling someone on the phone or even emailing them now, and many times it's faster too.
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Hey Steve, welcome to puberty!
//gets my vote for dumbest article writen this month.