People have improved in their use of the medium since ICQ. I seriously never had one conversation that was in any way necessary or even interesting in the years I used ICQ; it's better now. At least people use real words.
I think there's also an issue in that I was using chat rooms in 93-94ish, and there *was* meaningful, useful interchange over that medium. I wouldn't have expected the messenger thing to be that different, and yet it is.
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Date: 2005-09-13 12:42 pm (UTC)I think there's also an issue in that I was using chat rooms in 93-94ish, and there *was* meaningful, useful interchange over that medium. I wouldn't have expected the messenger thing to be that different, and yet it is.