It Looks Like Windows Live Messenger is Going Away

[Alex]

I'm weird in that I've never cared for instant messaging as a way of communicating with friends. I use it to conduct 90% of my business at work but don't have any IM tools at home.

I prefer inherently asynchronous. I don't want everybody to know I'm online and interruptable.

I just checked my phone history and in the last six months I've made two phone calls to someone other than Lani so Skype doesn't have much use to me (though we did use it for board meetings back when I was more involved with MousePlanet).

They're really starting to push videoconferencing at work over the last year and I really hate it. No offense to my friends but I don't think I would get anything more out of talking to any of them real time with a picture than I do via the quarterly text message.

I'm old and stodgety. Good thing I'm responsible for contributing to my company staying at the forefront of technology.