Great, now not only do you have to deal with friends telling you to download the latest and greatest IM client from Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Gmail, and ICQ (well, maybe not ICQ. Actually, does anyone even use ICQ anymore?), now you are going to have listen to them attempt to push you into downloading the new instant messaging client from Myspace. Grrr. As you can tell, I am not particularly happy about this.
I have yet to try it (and I probably will refrain from trying it), but there are a few things that stand out right away that make me cringe just a bit. The first is that I know this little myspace addition will include a toolbar, a search bar, and the same “take over the desktop” mentality that all of the major instant messaging clients have. To me, that translates into a few friends saying “…fix my computer?” The second is that it “requires” the use of Internet Explorer. This means that folks will happily install this, use Internet Explorer, and get hit with the latest and greatest piece of spyware/virus/you name it. To me, that translates into a few more friends saying “…fix my computer?” Double grrr.
Maybe I should start charging by the hour?
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