I'm delighted that Wikipedia remembers "talk" from back in the days before the WWW. I remember getting a "talk" request once from a 14 year old who noticed my email address was a girl's name. I was sorry to disillusion him that I was well past my teens. (He's probably pushing 30 and raising kids himself now.)
This is an example of where Web 2.0 came from. It irritates me a little when the "born digital" generation assumes that us old fogeys don't get it and never did it. Of course, it wasn't quite the same at 1200 baud. A more significant point is that these IM services are not seamlessly compatible the way the old Unix protocol was. That's sad.
Nevertheless, I don't expect to use IM much for myself. What I love about the Internet is that it is asynchronous. I hate phone-tag and voice mail and to me IM is another opportunity to miss connecting and get frustrated. ON the other hand, I think IM may be better than phone in some respects. And I do support providing library IM for those who do like it. Not everyone has to share my tastes. OK?
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