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  • 21 SEP 2009

    Instant Messaging – The ORIGINAL Social Networking

    A post by Sean Fenlon as Technology

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    Sean Fenlon

    Seriously.

    I give credit to AIM for being the FIRST Social Network as we now have come understand the Internet-based term (perhaps the real credit should go to Ham Radio and CB Radio Operators, but that’s a topic for a separate blog post).

    Then there was Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.

    What did all three of these social networks have in common?

    • Invite Only
    • LIVE
    • Presence Awareness
    • Synchronous
    • Text-based chat progressing over time to multi-media chat

    Long before Google Chat, other Social Networks evolved.

    • Classmates.com
    • Friendster
    • Myspace
    • Facebook/LinkedIn
    • Twitter

    Personally, I sliced off LIVE Chat as a separate Social Networking application, but it is really the core.  Live chat is THE ULTIMATE social.

    Thus far, I have used Trillian to combine all IM accounts into one client, but today they have failed.  Today, I am a happy customer of Meebo.

    On this one, I am NOT biased.

    Bravo Meebo.

    SPF

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    Sean Fenlon 871 days ago

    BTW,

    My IM handles are:

    seanfenlon (AIM)
    seanfenlon@yahoo.com (Yahoo)
    seanfenlon@hotmail.com (Microsoft)
    @seanfenlon (Twitter)
    facebook.com/seanfenlon (Facebook)
    seanfenlon@gmail.com (Google)

    SPF

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