Ah, IM. AOL Instant Messenger was my go-to messaging app back when I was in college, at least for my friends. (For family, they used MSN.) It was almost as if it dropped right off the map after 2008 and the whole invention of Facebook Messenger, which has never been that great because they track and save every single message you make whether you wanted to or not. AIM is still around, but it’s a shadow of what it once was, alas.
I was on IM far longer than the fad. YIM was fair at vid conferencing, and could transmit and receive txt from cell phones. Since I was far more likely to be at a computer, it was invaluable to me. But about the time that smart phones came out, suddenly txt and IM became separated things. YIM crapped the bed on texting, and had already crapped the bed on vidchat, and things like that weird gizmo it had that would play vid to you and another at the same time...
My fallback was AOLMess, but it became problematic wrt txting cells too...
Now I do Slack, which is strictly IM, but it's app is lightweight on phones, so the whole dang fam is on it, solving the immediate problem.
But Yahoo has almost destroyed itself, almost on purpose. Even my email there is a PIA, nagging me every time I log on about how awful it is that I IMAP to email clients and nix based tablets and such. Every time I get on their site by HTML, they frustrate me to no end.
I have been on Yahoo since it was USA1.com ... If a hard core guy like me is now using gmail (and I HATE google) instead, there is something terribly wrong.
All my kids grew up using Yahooligans as a home page, but now that's crap too.
My first website was on Geocities, and that destroyed itself along with tons of content that just disappeared...
I used Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Music, which also became crap...
The management there should be discharged wholesale.
