Word: aime
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Ideal Significant Other: Someone who understands why MSN messenger is better than AIM...
...person who owns a personal computer, cell phone, or other trendy technological device that allows for epistolary e-interaction. And it stirs paranoia in anyone who generally enjoys the world of impersonal, anti-social online banter. That is, it affects the users of the ubiquitous AOL Instant Messenger (AIM...
AOL’s new terms, affecting anyone who downloaded AIM after Feb. 4, 2004 as well as anyone planning to update the program in the future, explain that, “by posting content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.” Frightening words, indeed...
...words of JoeSchmoe123 may come back to haunt him someday, when it’s least expected, if AOL is subpoenaed for his AIM transcripts or for a listing of his posts on public forums. Perhaps, entangled in messy separations, angry divorcées will begin calling for their philandering husbands’ online conversations to inflate their settlements. Lives will be ruined and public humiliation imminent, all for seemingly innocuous words typed many years...
...lesson, then, is to be reasonably savvy. It’s safe to bet that AIM will probably not sell your secrets, but it still pays to know that they could. The license agreement for QuickTime and Harvard’s network access policy are documents under whose influence you find yourself on a regular basis, and they aren’t that long. It seems unlikely next time you see a button that says “I accept,” you’ll hesitate much before clicking it, but at the very least you should note...