RIP IM?

Considering the recent decline in IM usage thanks mostly to the rise in social networking sites like Facebook and platforms like Twitter, I decided it was time to make some cuts. I usually stay connected to most of the major IM clients (AIM, Yahoo, MSN) concurrently through a multi protocol program called Empathy.


One of the hardest decisions was who should go. I was able to take client performance out of the equasion, so it had to be purely on usage and global coverage. This article at Silicon Alley really helped concrete that for me, Yahoo is still blowing competitors out of the window, even if it's own usage has dropped in recent years.

So it really did turn out to be a fairly easy decision! Empathy also supports Facebook chat login; which is where most of my IM activity happens now anyway.