Instant Messenger Software Popular in Odyssey
AlexJeff4Son: Hey!
CalRiver: Hello!
AlexJeff4Son: How are you?
CalRiver: Fine.
AlexJeff4Son: :-)
CalRiver: ;-)
So goes the chit-chat on an average Instant Messenger conversation on an
evening in Odyssey. The use of Instant Messenger software has become a habit
for many Odyssey residents, including Connie Kendall and Cal Jordan.
"I use Instant Messenger to talk to my friends all the time," says Kendall.
"What makes it so much better than the phone is that you can talk to about
five people at once." Kendall said the most people she's talked to at once
has been "around twenty-two…maybe twenty-three…actually, once I think I
might have had twenty-five."
Cal Jordan says Instant Messenger is a fun way to meet people on the
Internet. "Since it's free, you can talk to people all over the world. You
get to meet people you'd never meet in real life." Jordan says the person he
talks to most is his cousin Alex Jefferson. Unfortunately, neither Jordan
nor Jefferson would comment on ever getting in trouble using Instant
Messenger.
This
article originally appeared in "The Odyssey Times," a
special fictional newspaper produced by Focus on the Family to promote
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