Mitch Wagner – Google+ – RIP AIM: For me at least. I’ve been getting spam messages…:
I’ve been getting spam messages on AIM lately, which made me realize that’s all I ever get on AIM. So I’ve decided to stop using it. I’ve been running AIM (and its ancestor, ICQ) since the late 90s.
Mitch reminds me that I meant to mention this as well. About three weeks ago, I checked my logs and transcripts and realized there was only one (non-spam) person I’d talked to on AIM that I didn’t also have a Gtalk connection with. That was quickly remedied, and so I turned off AIM. I also removed my Yahoo chat setup because I hadn’t talked to anyone via Yahoo since leaving HP (where it was the chat service of choice in engineering for some odd reason).
So if people want to IM me, the only way now is to use my Gtalk account, which shouldn’t be hard to find if you know where I live on Gmail. And in fact, I’m finding I’m using IM less and less in general, and there are days when I wonder why I leave it running at all. But it’s still intermittently useful, and now that AIM is turned off, non-annoying again…
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