

They don’t exactly make me swell with pride, but they do at least highlight the comforting persistence of immaturity.

Later, when I did have friends, we had conversations that are, of course, wincingly embarrassing a decade-plus later.
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In middle school, when I didn’t have a lot of friends, I was tempted to create fake friends with fake initials and reference the crazy nights we’d never had: “HEY AzK RAR and EL AMB GOC BWP AND JMA AHE BMF GCE and the rest of the TANGERINE CREW!!!! REMEMBER: DON’T EAT ALL THE CHOCOLATE!!!!! IF WE GET SEPERATED MEET AT THE TENTACLES!!! AND DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES MESS WITH JADE’S MOM’S WASHING MACHINE!!!!!!!!!! LOL” When I think about AIM, most of my memories have to do with early-adolescent growing pains, with exclusion and belonging. You could gossip or flirt or make plans to see a movie. Instant messaging was no longer a novelty, but a daily activity. We were too young for anything untoward to happen at that point, but there was a powerful thrill to the idea that, at the end of the other line, there was a Girl We Didn’t Know.īy the time I was 12, we all had AIM, and we mostly used it to talk with real-life friends. I’d sit at my keyboard or look over a friend’s shoulder while we made stupid jokes in the Kid’s Zone or whatever it was called, trying to convince “girls” (i.e., men in windowless vans) to join us in a private IM chat session. My earliest online-chat experiences were in elementary school, in the O.K. AIM just doesn’t have much of a niche anymore. Most of today’s popular chat programs-Facebook Messenger and Google Chat-are seamlessly integrated into bigger and more useful services. You might ask, so what? Granted, AIM is a bit of a relic. The company is claiming that the 15-year-old chat service isn’t going anywhere, but the tech blogs know better. The New York Times reported earlier this week that AOL had eviscerated its instant-messaging unit, laying off all of its developers, leaving behind only support staff. I went back to visit them because of the recent announcement that AIM is on its last legs.

And while it’s embarrassing to admit, after more than a decade, after an endless procession of new computers and graduations and job changes and moves up and down the I-95 corridor, my old AIM chat logs are still there, socked away in a random folder deep in the recesses of my hard drive. I am speaking, of course, of my old AOL Instant Messenger handle. Users can report messages, bullying, and ignore annoying users.Call me madcat457. Our moderator and admin team is always there to help enforce chat rules and safety measures. Our website uses SSL security, passwords and chat logs are 100% secure. We offer a safe and friendly environment for teenagers to gather in one place. We are the first of its kind teen chat rooms owned and run by teens.
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