Chatting/Conferencing (JO)
We've been able to talk to one another using telephones for some time now, so why are so many people, especially teenagers, using instant-messaging systems to converse? Who knows?
The Instant Messenger client from America Online (AOL) has popularized the instant-messaging phenomenon. Using instant-messaging applications, two or more people can “chat” in real time by typing and sending messages back and forth. One attraction of these services is that they're free. AOL's Instant Messenger has the largest following, but Microsoft has MSN Messenger, Yahoo has Yahoo Messenger, and a host of products, such as ICQ (www.icq.com/download/ftp-macppc.html), use Internet Relay Chat (IRC) as a message-exchange transport (Figure ...
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