When I switched from IRC to Yahoo!, the one thing that was most annoying was how intrusive IM windows became.
You’d be minding your own business and then, suddenly, the center of your screen was covered by a chat window saying ‘Hi’. Well, I eventually got used to that.
Then came the Age of Mass. Skillfully tailored mass messages, made out to look like they’ve been meant only for you. And then, people just got lazy and started blurbing out all the inanities they could come up with. All ending in ‘sorry for the mass’. It was a dark age for communication.
Then twitter came along.
All the messages were mass messages, they were meant to be mass messages. You knew that upfront. The one monumental advantage? you could check your mass messages whenever you felt like it. I don’t know about you, but I like most things to be unobtrusive.
Also, twitter has reduced the number of chain-mail messages I receive. It’s way easier to drop a bit.ly link into a tweet.
So, even though twitter still annoys a lot of people, it has brought some good into this world. Whether you realize it or not.
Now, when I get a mass message, I don’t mind anymore because a warm feeling of nostalgia sets in.
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You know, the messenger has this strange feature that would provide the windows from popping out into the screen, opening them in the task bar instead
. Feel free to explore, my child 
Also, feel free to add me to your messenger list. I promise I can be very annoying
crinutza, dear, I’m a Y! power user, so I know my way around it, thanks… moms.
I was talking about content. When you get a mass message that’s just utter crap. I had long forgotten the intrusive windows.
Of course, I could give you some advice here too… but then again… I’m not a power user myself… :”>
It must be my age… I sound like a mother in law
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crinutza, even the mass messaging has stopped now. It’s been replaced by twitter… which I can check wherever I like. Now that’s cool, eh?