WashingtonPost: Middle Schoolers, Letting Their Fingers Do the Talking
In what may be a permanent shift, kids are communicating online rather than by phone. And as they get older, when they do use the phone, it's more likely to be a cell, and even that may be for text messaging rather than talking.
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America Online, which provides the most-used instant messaging service through AOL subscriptions and its free AOL Instant Messaging service (AIM), estimates that by 2005 IMs will surpass e-mail as the primary way of communicating online. Right now 1.6 billion AOL and AIM IMs are sent every day.
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