IMs helps teens with their social affairs by Zuzana Blazeckova

Phenomenon called "IMs" saves time, security either embarassing situations. Is this why is instant messaging mainly between teenagers so popular? The researches say that among youngsters about half a girls and more than a third of boys use this kind of communication to express things they would never do private. The most frequent reasons are effort to stay in anonymity, to avoid not always funny so called "OMG" uncomfortable situations. The instant messaging is favorite also by asking people out of dates. They can feel more confident and also be able to get through a possible rejection. On the other hand, they use the advantage to brake up not face to face. Young students say, they are not wasting time with IMing. While messaging they are doing their homeworks, downloading music, videos, checking e-mails, online shopping, uploading photographs or updating their blogs if social network profiles. The most popular instant messaging programs handling several billion IMs per day, are for example Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corp. or AOL. Teens are naturally more likely to use IM's than adults. While adults frequently prefer telephone calls like more appropriate way of communication, in general it depends on the age, main subject of commuinication and current situation. Youngsters are also far likely to send photos or document files, and chat with more people at the same time. By many positives, on the other side, the instant messaging has also many disadvantages. People preferring chatting are loosing proximity, touch, and the special authentic feeling they can obtain just by face to face meeting.

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by Zuzana Blazeckova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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