I used to be a big user of instant messaging. I started off on AIM because that's what all of my school friends had at the time. Then, when I started going on internet forums and using the internet more and more, I migrated to MSN messenger, because that's what all of my internet friends used. During that time, I also discovered Facebook and switched to that being my primary means of contact outside of phone calls and texting my offline friends and cut AIM from my life. I used MSN up until they shut it down and switched to Skype. Now all of my internet friends switched to that and I just can't get into it. I log in rarely, much to the frustration of some of my friends. I don't really have much of an interest in instant messaging anymore. I like the instant contact, but all the people I talk to regularly on instant messaging I talk to in other ways. And I use Twitter a lot to keep in contact with my friends.