fatvegan

Instant messaging used to be the best thing since email. Sometimes better. It is no longer. And even though email has somewhat fallen from our graces, I feel that IM has no value at all for conversing. It still gets used for snippets of conversations, but that's all. I'm sure it's far more to do with what I am like, relative to what I was like at 15.

I think the main difference might be that now IM is a tool to occasionally help me get other things done. I never just sit in front of it and talk to people. And you can tell that other people don't either. Switching between a lot of different tasks while talking to someone does not make for good conversations. Usually someone forgets to reply and the chat just ends prematurely. I somehow miss the insecurity of hovering over an ICQ message box waiting for the next little tidbit. Although not really.