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TECHNOLOGY: IM-based online dating; video-game noir...
Love.com is free only through Valentine's Day. After that, AOL says, posting an ad will still be free, but if you want to IM someone, you'll be asked to pay a monthly subscription fee. The amount hasn't been determined yet, but it's likely to be comparable to Match.com's $25 a month or $100 a year. Regular Spring Street sites charge you just $1 anytime you want to initiate an e-mail correspondence. Since Love.com trusts users to verify that they are 18 or older and AIM is officially available to anyone 13 or older, parents...
...America has become an increasingly wired nation, the time we spend chatting on IM, checking others’ away messages and obsessively posting to our Live Journals, has multiplied. IM has gone from being a device sixth graders use for gossiping to one of the most important modern forms of communication. Used compulsively by practically every college student in the country, IM is not just a forum for posting party notices but is a distinct social world in and of itself...
College students spend countless hours immersed in this world. Walk into a Harvard dorm room on a weeknight, and you’ll more than likely encounter someone who’s sort of listening to downloaded music, sort of doing a paper but mainly typing instant messages. IM has so thoroughly pervaded college social life that even whole relationships are defined...
...advent of IM has had a particularly devastating effect on Harvard’s social dynamic. Because of its urban location and large institutional structure, Harvard naturally lacks that sense of college community that other schools have in spades. Students in years past were forced to cope with this reality by forming their own communities. However, the rise of high-speed Internet and Buddy Lists has impeded those types of community-building efforts. Students nowadays can attain the illusion of being part of a community while sitting in their rooms...