Last week I decided to join the 21st century along with thousands of my closest friends who have messages from their AOL Instant Messenger accounts forwarded to their cell phones.
I just disabled it.
I thought it would be nice to have people be able to send me messages when I wasn’t online at my computer. Turns out I was wrong.
For whatever reason, the AIM service doesn’t seem to keep up with whether I’m actually online or not. I’ve had people tell me that they’ve sent me a message when my status showed I was online, only to have it change to “mobile online” (or whatever they call it) as soon as they sent the message, and vice-versa.
The end result is that I generally wake up in the morning with a bunch of text messages, and I then have to go through them, which isn’t either fun or easy.
If I’m actually out and get a legit message, there’s then the matter of responding to them. Sending a text message in reply is out, since composing a message on the numeric keypad is about as much fun as teaching a cat to fetch the paper, but not nearly as fulfilling. Or, I could just call them, and we could talk that way.
Since I’ve found myself calling the people who message me in almost every case, and since they probably are near a real phone or their cell phone, I’ve decided to take AIM out of the equation.
Good riddance, AIM forwarding! In this case, I’m going to be a Luddite and head back into my 20th century cave to hide.
For any of you die-hards who insist on sending a text message to me, you can use the email-to-SMS gateway.
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