Experience with Instant Messaging

I think of instant messaging as taking the place of hand written letters via “snail mail”, which I believe most people have no interest in writing letters like this anymore. Instant messaging is just that; instant and in “real time”. If I see that a friend is online on Facebook (by the green dot), and I want to chat with them, I can in real time. Instant messaging is how I keep up with friends and I get information this way that I normally would not have at all, such as keeping up with things where I grew up. I prefer Facebook instant messaging the most, because as mentioned above, I can see when friends are online. Facebook seems to be where everybody is, so it is my preferred IM platform.

This blog is part of an assignment from American Military University for my "Web 2.0 Fundamentals" class where I am to review instant messaging preferences.