Instant Messaging

The terror that is Facebook is converting more and more people all the time! Just kidding. Facebook isn't that bad. But it is stopping people from using forums and instant messaging. I remember the old days of using AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger. Now, many people have migrated to Facebook and abandoned these.

How many of you still use instant messaging? That would also include Skype. I'd be interested in chatting to a few of you via WLM (MSN) or Skype since I hope to expand my pet interests in the future. It would be a good opportunity. At any rate, I'd like to hear your thoughts about how many of your friends use instant messaging, etc.

I still have skype and windows Live messenger. Facebook chat doesn't have the same feel.

Actually just yesterday there was a news about how half(or maybe a quarter I can't remember) the Americans think Facebook is on its way out. I don't agree it is on its way out, but surely it will slow down as it is no longer a new toy.

I also see no advantage of Facebook over a real forum like this one. For a group discussion, a forum is the best method for back and forth talk.

I'm pretty sure facebook is on the way down. This may seem a pointless fact, but GM has pulled their advertising from facebook, I would think more will follow. They go public tomorrow, so that will be interesting to watch. Allot of the online reptile community is active on facebook, and there are some good groups, but even those groups all seem to revolve around another forum specific to what ever group or species of animals in question. I'm not saying it will crash in the next 6 months. But it will go in the direction of Myspace, which used to be the big thing, but somewhere along the line a board of directors will make decisions based on the most secure way to guarantee income. Now myspace is a shell of what it used to be, and is primarily an online music community (or was the last time I checked.)