[lit-ideas] Re: Pew Internet Report on Instant Messaging (IM)
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 17:03:07 -0400
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
>
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