Mon
10
Sep 2007
IM, HRM
Geek 9:11 am () BBC - Wikipedia
Does anyone still use IM any more? Every once in a while I turn on Trillian to load up my *four* IM accounts.. I mean, you have to have one on every major service just to communicate with everyone else on a different service right?
It just seems like whenever I start it up, there is no one else on. Granted, I’m adding to the problem, because then I immediately shut it back down again. I don’t even think about running it for weeks at a time, and would never consider running it automatically.
I dunno, it just seems like between email, blogs, forums and mailing lists, I am able to keep up with everyone. And the telephone.. yeah we still use that too, though it’s more likely to be a cell phone. I’m not a “texter” but I know the generation behind me is..
It just seems the once dominate method of quick internet chatting has gone by the wayside.
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Well, its like the time that your cat Snowball got run over? Remember that, honey? Well, what I’m saying is all we have to do is go down to the pound and get a new jazzman.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Yep, I’m on IM pretty often,several accounts even
September 10th, 2007 at 9:48 am
I still use IM. I keep it running most of the day and have a few people that I talk to regularly through it. But then I almost never use the phone, and I’m getting pretty bad at keeping up with email…
September 10th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Interesting.. maybe it’s just that the people I used to talk to, specifically my friends and close family I have other methods of talking to.. Then there’s the whole group of people who I used to play CCGs online with during my designer days, and I never have any reason to talk to any of them any more.. guess I could just pop on and say hi once in a while.. Maybe I’ll let it run for a bit and see who’s around.
I guess maybe if I actually had people on there that I talked to at this point in my life, it would be better. I mean, I don’t have any of the three of you who just commented, FWIW.
I could also see myself getting very little work done during the day if I was constantly chattering.. which is probably the best reason to keep it silent.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:38 am
I still use it occasionally. I just loaded up Trillian. I don’t have a lot of people’s IM names, though.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:39 am
And just to clarify, I only use it at home. I can’t IM at work.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:42 am
aim: ekscholar … where I work doesn’t mind that I have trillian up (running it off the flash drive).
September 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
When I worked from home, I used it almost daily. I’m busy enough when I’m home that I don’t remember to turn it on. So it’s there, just hasn’t been used in a long while.
September 24th, 2007 at 11:36 am
You’re right D, you never IM over hamachi…..