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"These days, more and more are always grayed out, because they were on some other service that’s no longer connected." More likely people just stopped using in
by Causality1 8y ago
"These days, more and more are always grayed out, because they were on some other service that’s no longer connected."
More likely people just stopped using instant messaging. Ubiquitous mobile email, Facebook, and text messaging has not only replaced I stant messaging but have shoved our social circle into a much narrower geographic circle. Back in the day there might have been one person out of ten I talked to online that I knew in person. Now it's just the opposite.
- lucb1e 8y agoBut.. facebook and sms are instant messaging? I'm not sure what one you're drawing.
- Causality1 8y agoDifferent usage profile. Instant messaging was typically used for real time conversations. Facebook messenger, Twitter DMs, etc are typically used for delayed messaging, where the messages are longer and the sender may not expect a reply for hours.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoI grew up through AIM, MSN Messenger, ICQ, etc. and Facebook Messenger is used the same exact way except that it has "offline receiving" which expands its usefulness. Maybe you are over-extrapolating from the fact that you stopped instant messaging as you got older.
- lucb1e 8y agoOh I see. (I thought FB was used for IM.)
- taude 8y agoDon't a lot of these tech thought leaders/social influencers all know each other on Twitter and reply to each other's Tweets? I'm not on much anymore, but that seemed to be what I saw.... I know it's not the same as private chats. But I have to assume there's quite a bit of DMing going on in Twitter?