I have signed onto Google chat and I sometimes chat with my sister and my dad on-line. Instant message is a fun novelty but the inconvenience is that you have to arrange to be all on-line at the same time. I did a subject at RMIT last year within the class we had to form groups and do activities for class each week. Most of the group wanted the form of communication to be instant messaging. I found that those who chose to take part in instant messaging took a lot longer to complete tasks than other groups who chose to meet face to face and discuss activities Instant messaging is useful for brief chats with up to three people but not the most productive use of time for allocating tasks conducting discussion for a work group. It concerns me that students will lose verbal communication abilities if they rely on e-mail, texting and chatting for means of communication only.
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And it's a worry that people will use these technologies whether or not they're the best form of communication or not. :-)
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