Another nice thing about IMing is that there is an element of privacy -- I can have a silent conversation with someone and say things I wouldn't want everyone in the room overhearing. And I can converse with 6 or 7 people at once. While reading CNN. It's, like, power, man. Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Pew Internet Report on Instant Messaging (IM) Date: 9/9/04 4:04:29 PM Central Daylight Time From: _erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: My brother and I talk to on MSN when he's one room down the hall from me. I don't talk to any of my friends on the phone, hardly. Only those who don't spend much time on the Internet, and that's only a few of them. 99% of my friends use instant messagers, and I make 99% of my plans through them. I like instant messagers better than E mail. I've been using ICQ for the last 8 years. I think it came out when I was 15. Erin Toronto Quoting Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>: > At 04:28 PM 9/9/2004, you wrote: > >I mean, hell, you don't think friends actually pick up a phone and CALL > each > >other any more, do you? > > Teenagers have taken it to a(whole)nother level. The other day I was at > some relatives and their teenage daughter was ON her cellphone talking to > the same person she was IMing. And I thought my sister was crazy when she > was buried in her room 20 years ago talking endlessly. Now, not only can > people frivolously have conversations, they can send the latest songs, > pics, dirty jokes, info, school projects, etc. over their computers and get > > instant feedback in two simultaneous media. YIKES! It's overload. > > paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > -- Erin ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html