„It’s Time to Bring Back the AIM Away Message“
Technology aside, the social interactions around these messaging forms were distinctive. Think of it as synchronous messaging versus asynchronous messaging, says Justin Santamaria, a former lead Apple engineer who helped launch Apple iMessage (now Messages). Back when he was working on iChat, a Mac client that supported live AIM chats and was the precursor to iMessage, the mentality was that “SMS was very much about asynchronous communication, a kind of ‘fire and forget’ model,” he says. “If I want to tell you something I send it, you receive it, and then you respond on your time.”
Now, “asynchronous” messaging has become the dominant form of text-based remote communications, Santamaria says. We’re all glued to Messages, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, and Signal on our phones, and in many instances we receive the same messages at the same time on our laptops. With that evolution, our social contracts have changed.
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