I’ve always been a fan of instant messaging, although I’m a bit wary of its use as a way of chatting with strangers, for whatever purpose it may serve the user. But that warrants another post. As a way of communicating with family members and friends, instant messaging is such a huge help. That you can even use your mobile phone to connect, as mobile marketing ploys will tell you, is a really useful feature especially if you’re always mobile or always on the go. Text message services are OK, too, but web SMS is sometimes cheaper. Also, if you’re going out of the country, for instance, and your mobile phone provider failed to activate your roaming services for some reason, using the Internet to send instant messages will come in handy. Personally,  I prefer to use the Gmail integrated chat because it allows me to check e-mails and chat with a number of contacts simultaneously.  But because several of my other friends prefer to use Yahoo messenger, I still log-in to my YM account occasionally just to check if somebody left an offline message. Truth is, if your intent is to exchange short messages alone, both Gmail and YM serve this purpose, although Gmail chat do not have the Web cam and audio functionality just yet (I think you’ll have to set this up). More than these two, there are plenty more instant messaging services  in the World Wide Web.  You just have to find which one suits your need best.

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