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Personal Instant Messaging |
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To you, instant messaging on Paltalk, Skype, Google and AOL is old hat now. To the uninitiated, instant messaging is text talking in real time. Unlike an e mail which after being sent, lies on the server and the message can be read only when the person accesses his mailbox on the site of the email service provider. E-mail was a storm and took on conventional postal mail in a manner which while easy to comprehend is very difficult to describe.
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Similarly, business and personal internet messaging has taken over the role of email, the pseudo communicator as messaging is interaction in real time in a two way chat box in real time. The experience can be further maximized with voice chat and video chat.
Personal instant messaging is instant message in real time between a father and his daughter, a mother and her son, a wife with husband, between two hearts, between children and grand parents, between friends, between lovers. The conversation could range from the mundane to the exalted. The experience, once it becomes a habit, can be intoxicating. You will not be able to do without your daily dose of personal instant messaging. It is like being in a room, just the two of you and you can lock the door from the inside.
In personal instant messaging, you become oblivious to the world outside and are lost in one another's dexterous hands intertwined on the the keyboard. You can hear soft hushed whispers in the text talk of your loved one. There is also the great facility of indicating your status as away from computer or whatever. Many a times, more often than not, this serves to deceive buddies and strangers who may message you. In case you do not want interruptions, you can choose for this. You wish you can be visible or invisible to your online buddies save the ones you have an interest in. You can organize your buddy list in categories such as family, boyfriends, friends and intimate friends. You can have quarrels with your boyfriend, have him make it up to you with smileys until a smile comes to your lips and you decide to forgive him. At least for now.
There are also some things you need to careful about in personal instant messaging. Think a bit and you realize the “ blond, brown hair, crew cut, athletic navy seal 6' 1” 160 lb “ is not on the USS Enterprise but is instead a cranky old pervert in a shack in Mexico. So you want to hear and see voices and video respectively in personal instant messaging. You are advised not to give out cell or land line phone numbers or addresses and in case someone asks you to send money it is a FRAUD. You are advised not to meet someone u meet on your messenger in a place other than a very public square or cafe. Avoid trysts with destiny please.
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