Ginnie Lim's List: Personal

• mobility of IM caused positively and negatively
• anonymity
• gestures
• speed
• could not express fully your emotions on IM.
• self-personalised short-formed words
• although IM may be used anonymously - be it for flirting, gossiping or others non-formal chatting - there are still people who use it for 'useful' communication
• People might still expect that you have something to share, to ask, or to chat about.
• bad grammar, poor punctuation, shorten words and improper abbreviations in academic writing
• brainstorm thoughts and develop intelligent chatting.
• important literacy in kids' lives,
• rumors and gossip via instant messenger in workplaces
• instant messaging addiction
• personal status message tool to compete 'ridiculousness' of messages; and also an excuse for others to post messages to some one else when he or she otherwise would not.
• one may say something that he or she later thought is inappropriate.
• adoption of more casual and informal communication and culture.
• instant messenger had come to the edge of corporate world and replaced other means of communications.
• one building apart.
• to know what is happening around their friends while for guys in particular they use it to talk to girls whom they shy to do so off-screen.

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