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When launched in , AIM was a staple of personal computers. Created as an extension of AOL's desktop software, the instant messaging client helped to revolutionize the way people interact online. But the service's popularity declined as social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter took over the online social scene.
AOL only officially shut down the service late last year, citing a "cultural shift" in the way people communicate. All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we'll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users! This is an easy one.
Some of the best advice I heard a couple decades ago was to make a separate email address that you use for internet stuff like shopping sites, message boards, non-humans, etc. Of course I have a few other email addresses for work stuff as well. Spam blockers and filters on most servers are highly configurable with the ability to add real-time-block-lists that keep publicly known spammer servers out.
I can filter all of my VIP emails into a sub folder and add specific notification sound effects to that folder in order to keep those messages up front while subduing the extraneous noise. I can even set an email account to be completely exclusive and only allow incoming emails from specific people for example, the ones in my contact list.
Emoji and Stickers are fun! Some email clients in the past, Pocket PC for example, even had quick access buttons for adding voice recordings and handwritten digital ink to emails.
Message delivered and read notifications Many instant message apps these days have little icons that indicate when the message was delivered as well as when it was read. Of course, this has been possible with email for a very long time. Unfortunately, not all email servers treat read receipts the same way or at all. Do you really want your personal phone number out there?
Email will probably be around forever Another huge disadvantage of all of these proprietary instant messenger apps that require you to peer-pressure your friends into downloading the app and signing up for an account is the fact that they change so frequently.
Skype is going to completely stop working on Windows Phone 8, 8. WhatsApp has changed their policies and will be sharing your info with Facebook. MSN Messenger no longer exists. Facebook Messenger is going to require a ridiculous 2Gb of RAM on your phone soon and is becoming quite bloated. Instant messenger apps get bought up by other companies and support stagnates all the time. Other instant messengers have added tons of annoying ads once they started getting popular… and subsequently died off in popularity.
Email has none of those problems, especially if you own your own domain so that you can switch email services whenever you want or set up your own server. Multimedia message system obviously added the ability to include more than just text, such as pictures, videos, and audio attachments. All of these hacks to get SMS on more internet-connected devices seem a lot like how email has already been working the whole time.
To this day, none of those SMS sync services work between platforms though. Those no-internet situations are becoming far less frequent though, and SMS conversations have remained far less manageable and far less capable than email. Just make better email apps! Maybe you want a messaging program that sorts your messages in a chat window with blue and green bubbles and a cute background image.
Conclusion There seem to be a lot of people and companies that want to replace your open electronic internet communications with their own proprietary systems that lock you in to a particular service. One of the best ways to get a handle on your email is to keep separate accounts for separate uses.
These other instant messaging companies want to lock you in to their specific service so that once you start depending on it, they can start sending advertisements and make lots of money.
A clever developer could probably collapse the whole instant messenger market by designing a platform agnostic email client that supports all the things email does already, but adds a more chat-like experience interface.
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