I would like to introduce my digital communication channels to everyone of you.
From the very beginning of computer being commonly used at home, I have be using different communicative software to chat with my friends in leisure.
First software that I used is mIRC, which is a very popular internet relay chat client at that time. It seems to be less common in HK than it is in SG. Anyway, there are different Chat Rooms in the different servers all over the world. People will usually go into their local server and join chat rooms with common interest. For example, I can join a HK server and create a room call BAEP, anyone of common interest will gather together to chat, or a better word, GOSSIP.
During the same period, there is ICQ, this software should be more common in HK as compared to mIRC. But as IRC is the dominant software at my time, I seldom use ICQ. ICQ is an instant messaging program used by computer. And most people might not know, its name come from "I Seek You". ICQ allows you to connect to people by adding them from their account number. This allows you to locate people whom you wanted to chat with directly if you have their account number. However, it is really troublesome to give your account number to your friend as you cannot remember them.
Later on, there comes MSN Messenger created by Microsoft. This instant messenger functioned the same as ICQ where you can locate your friend directly. MSN comes up with a convenient way of locating people, which is by their hotmail address. This makes life easier for many internet users as the found it much easier to remember the ID that they created, e.g. secret_cheung@hotmail.com. Thus, more and more people are using this software. MSN messenger also constantly upgrade and modify itself for the better, its function is the most user friendly among all software I used. And now, it has changed its name to Windows Live Messenger. And until now, I am still a great fan of it.
Well, I am not sure if this course will touch on these communication channels (I hope it does as I can learn something about it that I didn't notice). But still, I would like to share some of my experience in using it, which is "bring chats into daily life". When I first started using chats, I can't help but brought it to my daily life. It become soooo much easier to type short forms that I use it in academic studies. I wrote my note in short forms used in the chats. E.g. 1st u haf 2 add salt into e water. tt will cuz water 2 bcome unpure. This form of writing speeds up my note taking skill. However, when I pick the note up to revise, I throw it all away after an hour of studying. It is totally unreadable. This is one of my bad experience with chats. :P
I am a great fan of MSN too!! It is really convenient especially when you can gather a group of people to chat. It's a good tool for discussing project.
ReplyDeleteAnd sometimes, I think chatting with words is better than with speech because words are influential and everything would be very clear if we type it out. (but of course there would be misunderstandings too)