Msn messenger took over from ICQ in my social circle, then SMS, then Gchat, then Hangouts. The amount of churn in the IM space for such a simple product is so

Msn messenger took over from ICQ in my social circle, then SMS, then Gchat, then Hangouts. The amount of churn in the IM space for such a simple product is so absurd. I blame Google for abandoning the principle of a standard protocol for this stuff.