Analysis of Instant Messenger Programs From telegrams to telephones, to emails and faxes, people have had a strong desire to be connected to one another. The onset of the information age has only increased that desire - to the point that people are seeking a constant connection. The introduction of instant messenger programs has allowed people to be connected and communicate in real-time. Instant messaging not only provides transfer of text messages, but peer-to-peer file sharing as well
this is working from home with a computer terminal utilizing today’s current technology by transmitting data and documents while working from home and maintaining a close contact with co-workers, managers, through the use of email, internet (instant messenger), and telephone and fax machines as well. Video conferencing using web cameras can also be an effective tool for telecommuting in order to help enhance for its employees and executives. The other form of telecommuting is center based telecommuting
Cyberculture has definitely changed the way the people of today communicate. More often than not in today’s society communication involves no personal contact at all, because of today’s modern marvels including e-mail, instant messenger, and cellular phone text messaging people are able to communicate more conveniently and fairly efficiently. The telegraph, typewriter, and the telephone all posed threats to the art of hand writing and in more recent times e-mail in particular has changed the
are easier to carry around and much more convenient then trying to find a pay phone and then worrying if you have money for the pay phone. The internet has a positive impact much like cell phones. By this I am mainly talking about email and instant messenger. Email has had a huge impact on family life because it allows families to write each other that might not be able to talk to each other very often. Most email are free this is ... ... middle of paper ... ...lso many other sites on the internet
The Social Consequences of Communication Technologies How many hours have you spent on American Online Instant Messenger when you should have been studying for prelims? Communications shapes our modern society as well as brings many burdens and negative aspects along with it. It does not seem like it is even able to help most of the population of a developing country because most of the people in that country do not have access to modern communications technologies. Current telecommunications
you are, and you also have no way of knowing if they are who they say they are. This situation of questionable identity can occur even when you are talking with friends. I am sure many of us have played this game by chatting on someone else’s instant messenger, all the while letting the other person assume we were someone else. The same thing can happen in chat rooms or even on blogs. Bloggers are free to recreate their personality in the virtual community. This situation gives people the perfect
the dream, he was rosy and cherubic. When we kissed, he was soft. In the morning, my lips remembered Rob’s kisses. I felt the sensation dancing quietly just above my skin, woven and brushed, like a cashmere sweater. I talked to my dad over instant messenger and told him that I had a dream that Rob was my lover. I didn’t want to tell him this, embarrassed, but something seemed to propel me forward. He typed his response, slowly. I waited. “That’s O.K,” the screen read. “I dreamed a lot about my brother
AOL Time Warner On December 14, 2000, the Federal Trade Commission approved the planned merger of AOL and Time Warner after both companies pledged to “protect consumer choice” both now and in the future. The AOL Time Warner merger was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on January 11, 2001, and is the biggest merger in corporate history, then estimated at a total market value of $350 billion. The merger created a ‘powerhouse’ of new and traditional media. AOL Time Warner has led the
of this pervasiveness are. The Internet brings many diverse groups of people together to participate in many aspects of life from trade to conversations. Some might wonder if these interactions might lead to an end of diversity. In chatrooms and instant messages, the push towards uniformity in style is undeniable. However, this change is far from limited to these small areas of the Internet. In order to evaluate the Internet’s effect on the culture of today, it is first important to define the
E-mail is short for Electronic Mail, a software application based on communications to transmit messages over the Internet as a communication network. The E-mail becomes the most popular and frequently used application because of the reasons of easily message transmission to the receiver even though the distance location of the sender and receiver within a thousand miles. Most of e-mail systems consist of an elementary text editor for composing messages, but many allow users to edit the messages
chat rooms. Within video games, users were able to play against the computer. Within chat rooms, one could choose to talk to a “robot”. For example, with AOL Instant Messenger or AIM, the user had the option of talking to smart bot, which was an artificial intelligence system that responded to instant messages sent through AOL Instant Messenger. In the early 2000s, interactive robot pets became available in stores. Today, artificial intelligence systems have been advanced as far as creating drones
use via internet such as [2]: • Desktop-based Software: Desktop-based chatting system is comprised with executa-ble file (e.g. exe). Therefore, the users need to install and run them to use these types of software. For example, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, etc. • Web-based: Web-based chatting system is the additional functionalities of a web ap-plication such as servlet for java which is only dedicated for the chatting system. For example, Barclay’s Bank Customer Care web site
which it came. It is thus necessary to look at both the history of the Internet itself and of several forms of communication that predate the Internet before discussing Internet Speak. Looking b... ... middle of paper ... ... Johnson, Michelle. “AOL Embraces Networking.” Boston Globe. Boston, Mass.: March 15, 2004. Koziol, Ronald. “CB radio talk spurs drug arrest.” Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Ill.: August 11, 1989. Leiner, Barry M., Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, et al. “The
1) Web 2.0 is a collection of technologies that enable us to create and provide services to end users in innovative ways. It's not only about the technologies which are used but about the new ways that it enables large numbers of people to come together to collaborate, share, and build . The term Web 2.0 was invented by Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. According toTim O'Reilly: http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/12/web-20-compact-definition-tryi.html, 2006 “Web 2.0 is the business
everyone who accesses the Internet uses it for research. Many people, especially young people use the Internet for e-mail and chatting. Chat rooms and instant messengers are becoming more prevalent on the Internet. Internet service providers such as America Online (AOL) have chat rooms where people from all over the world can chat about almost anything. AOL has chat rooms for teens, singles, religious groups, sports, and many other topics. If a person in a chat room likes what someone else in the chat
It’s really interesting to see the changes that technology has come to. The advancements in technology in just the past decade have been astounding. It’s hard to think that there really was life without high-speed Internet, e-mail, and AOL Instant Messenger. However, not only have there been so many advancements in technology, but also with it came advancements in the visual field, in that our culture and society became so much more driven with such a visual drive. Works Cited: Bolter
Finally they agreed to converse at a later date. All that from 43 separate “symbols” and words. Welcome to the future. However, in my humble opinion, you can exchange the word ‘future’ with ‘hell’. The internet, chatting and the glut of instant messengers have helped create a subculture of the English langue that is starting to creep into everyday life. It’s a disturbing trend. I feel the line needs to be drawn between the fast flowing conversational style shorthand of internet writing and
as online social cruelty or electronic bullying, it has been described as "an aggressive, intentional Act carried out by a group”. Cyber bullying is often done through social networking sites, like Face book or Twitter, but can also be used with instant messaging or blogging. The New York Times defines cyber bullying as, “an imprecise label for online activities ranging from barrages of teasing texts to sexually harassing group sites” In a Cox Communication (2009) survey of 13-18 years-old we’re
Sirfraz khan English 1A 12:30 – 2:00 Research essay Today’s society moves way faster then it used to move. Now a day’s people want to move faster and get things done a lot easier by doing such things at the same time. There are many incidents where people tend to multitask and in some ways there are positives to multitasking and some are negatives to multitasking. Multitasking concerns a lot of college students, due to not having enough time or just trying to finish more than one thing at a time
worldwide. Social networking has been affecting Americans for a very long time. Ever since the creation of the internet, many social networking sites were created which began to affect us. Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and AOL had made the biggest impact on Americans. All these websites lead to an increase in cyber bullying. With all this in mind, social networking has been influencing society as a whole. In the early 1900’s many different types of computers and parts to