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...film studies program, Olivia S. Shabb ’07 of Hurlbut 401 does not even leave the Carpenter Center until 3 or 4 a.m. on a typical evening. Her late hours are not just due to studio work–she's also hooked on AOL Instant Messenger. While she is busy at the computer, Olivia’s roommates can be found watching any of the five seasons of “Sex in the City” on DVD, studying, or, of course, partying...
...fallen from where we were. The spiritual guidance has gone and left us, for number one, and that’s a very dangerous thing. And the mentality in terms of microwaves has risen. We want things overnight. It’s a fast-food, instant-gratification, efficiency-not-quality society...
Matthew A. Gline ’06, said that in addition to being deprived of access to the UNIX server and course websites, he particularly missed AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) last night...
Knock-knock from coolkid6492," read the headline on an AOL instant message (IM) window that popped up on my computer screen at 3:42 p.m. last Tuesday. "Hey, I'm a 19/f/Ca. Wanna come check me out?" I had a pretty good idea of what Coolkid had in mind. But just to make sure, I clicked on the Web link embedded in the IM and was promptly directed to an X-rated website, where I was invited to pay "just $1 a month" to watch women get naked in front of a webcam...
...been receiving more and more instant messages like this, you're not alone. Yahoo reports that 2% of all IMs sent on its messenger service are spim, which is the new word for spam sent via instant messaging. A total of 582 billion IMs were sent worldwide in 2003, according to the Radacati Consulting Group--and that adds up to a lot of spim...