It failed in the same sense Myspace failed: didn't adapt, and something better/cooler/trendier came along. Facebook ate the market for teenagers instant messagi

It failed in the same sense Myspace failed: didn't adapt, and something better/cooler/trendier came along. Facebook ate the market for teenagers instant messaging, and Gmail crushed hotmail. Besides, its popularity was, like everything else, depending on countries. When I was a teenager in France, nobody had ever heard of Yahoo! or AOL IM. Everybody was on MSN, with ICQ a far, "geeky", second.