Research
According to this graph, we can see that 55% of people from the United States used MSN Messenger.
People think playing MSN can improve their friendship with their friends and
they think msn is useful because it can help
them to discuss homeworks together. Besides, MSN had Games to play with as a form of relaxation.
ICQ can build up friendship too, they will update new version recently.In US, there are 32% of people love to play ICQ.
Through the research, we found out the language that people use was not to accurate at all.
They use 88=bye bye, u=you, r=are, ur=your etc.
Of couse, use 88 to instead of bye bye in ICQ is definitely no promlem at all, but the people usually mix the ICQ and MSN language on their education.
This affect their study a lotand also, it affect their communication in daily life a lot. As they use the computer as a habit, they do not know how to communicate with other. This will affect their life.