The AIM comment really stuck out to me as strange. AIM is fine, but hardly special relative to its many competitors. His link goes to a preview page for (I guess) a new version of AIM with fancy things like twitter integration, but I don't really see that mattering much.
If anything, to throw my anecdotal evidence into the ring, AIM was big in my middle- through high-school experience, but most of my friends have dropped it as adults. Its uses back then were "hey, saw you were online, let's chat" and occasionally leaving short-term messages not worth an email or a call. It's have been replaced by facebook chat and texting for those uses respectively. I'm not a fan of facebook chat compared to an AIM client (desktop-based or web-based), but what're you gonna do?
If anything, to throw my anecdotal evidence into the ring, AIM was big in my middle- through high-school experience, but most of my friends have dropped it as adults. Its uses back then were "hey, saw you were online, let's chat" and occasionally leaving short-term messages not worth an email or a call. It's have been replaced by facebook chat and texting for those uses respectively. I'm not a fan of facebook chat compared to an AIM client (desktop-based or web-based), but what're you gonna do?