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WALK into an office these days, and chances are you will come across someone doing It: Having a little fun on the side while working.

Instant Messaging via Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger, or MSN for short, has taken off in a big way here, and more and more people are logged on for hours on end , 'talking' to friends and colleagues while at work.

These so-called 'efficiency freaks' send 55 million messages each day - for a total of 1.6 billion a month last year.

The messages range from questions about work to the garden variety: 'Makan? Can. Now? Ok, where?' sort.

Microsoft, which released these figures last week, said that there are 1.3 million users of the free service in Singapore, and they are online for an average of 12 hours a day.

The number of messages sent puts Singapore's well-documented obsession with SMS texts in the shade: Though there are six million mobile phone accounts here, just one billion text messages were sent each month last year.

While the bulk of IM users are in the 15-34 age group, there are more than a few who are as old as 60 banging away at their keyboards constantly.

The growth in Instant Messaging (IM) began three years ago, and coincided with the boom in broadband take-up rates.

These connections allow users to stay online for as long as they want, without incurring extra charges.

And that is exactly what they are doing.

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The Game

of course.. IM is so much faster to get the info across. i type faster than i sms..

anyway IM is available almost anywhere now...

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icycle

and the best thing is that, its free.

Style is nothing without substance
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uyen

More practical way to communicate.

人情味不是偏私而是博爱，

不是施舍而是关怀。

不是表面的礼貌，

而是内心的尊重。

Friends will bail you out of jail.but Best Friends will be sitting by you saying,
" that was awesome !"

*~ Yutaka ~*

yea i agree after all we are so use to typing on button size of our finger then button size of a M&M chocolate xD

misterKIDDY

yea. typing a sms needs some time while msn or w/e uses less time and doesnt spend any money

mrlazy

sms no use. if urgent, just call the person. if wan to chat use msn online.

JeForceX

Instant Messaging has become the bread and butter of our daily lives.
I will kind of feel "Left Out" without it.

joey_vodka

sms costs money. and its kinda a waste of money to send one liner sms . eg, makan now?
hence its more pratical to use IM. heh, anyway, most offices have internet access now =P

if use sms to chat, at the end of the month, when hp bill come, i think will faint.

freedomkira

Some ppl prefer use e-buddy to reduce lagging.

The Way


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Taki

wooo ~~ go update msn to more freako implimentations okay =D

leishen

msn rocks =D

Is 6 years of age gap big different between the word [Friend] ?
Why can't we be close ?


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Can we be like Pon and Zi ? I really wants you to hug me, like a brother.

ayumizhu

haha even at school, people jus message across.
sometimes email.

but sms is abit for those who cannot stay online during work.

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anberlin

sms is only if you dont have a pc or laptop with you...and you have to wait...of course IM is better...

You think you're unsafe but it's not over. Accept for who you are, You are not alone.... There is always beauty in one's imperfections, so do not go hysterical about anything you deemed to see not up to your liking..... I am not one of them....

raph

MSN - more interactive n fast n free...
SMS - outside when no PC or PDAs, nid to pay... haa

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...lets go back to basics

hooolahoop

IM is good in a sense you can chat with 10 million people at a go!!! (okay, exaggerating, but you get the idea)....

SMS can only one-to-one, and it is not instant response....