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[edit] Definitions of Instant messaging on the Web:

• (IM) - a text-based computer conference over the Internet between two or more people who must be online at the same time. ...

mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/netterms.htm

• Unlike email instant messaging software allows you to 'talk' to someone in real time by typing and receiving messages. ...

www.standardchartered.com/online-banking/security-tips/glossary/en/

• A communications tool that combines the live nature of chat rooms with the direct contact of email. Users have to download the IM software, and ...

www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/special_initiatives/wa_resources/wa_shared/backgrounders/internet_glossary.cfm

• a text form of communication that happens in real-time like a conversation between people over the internet. ...

www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/learning/teabreak/jargon.shtml

• such as those offered by America Online (AOL), Yahoo, and Microsoft Network (MSN), tell users which of their friends, family members, and business ...

www.nad.org/site/pp.asp

• Instant Messaging (IM) is a rapid means of online communication. Instant Messaging programs often allow people to control who they communicate with and who can see their availability.

www.earthlinksecurity.com/security/articles/glossary/

• allows Internet users to know when others are online and have a real-time conversation, in form of a personal chat room. It is more immediate than e-mail and some programs allow for file sharing.

www.broadbandinfo.com/internet-access/glossary/default.html

• This is an application that allows instant text communication or "chat" between two or more people through a network such as the Internet. There are many types of these applications such as MSN Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Skype.

www.iab.ie/FAQs/DefinitionofTerms/

• software that tells the user when friends are online and enables them to chat in real time.

www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/handbook/web/glossary.htm

• (IM) is the act of instantly communicating between two or more people over a network such as the Internet. Instant messaging requires the use of a client program that hooks up an instant messaging service and differs from e-mail in that conversations happen in real time.

www.pinkmagazine.com/exclusives/gen_y_terms_aug.sept2006.html

• Sending and receiving text messages in real time over the Internet or an intranet.

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb663574.aspx

• Instant messaging is the ability to easily see whether a chosen friend or co-worker is connected to the Internet and, if they are, to exchange messages with them.

www.ebusinesssoftware.co.uk/index.php

• This groupware (for example, ICQ) allows you to send and receive short messages, regardless of other applications used at the same time

www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition5/print_what_is.asp

• a faster version of e-mailing in which two people can directly communicate with each other if their screennames are logged online

www.tqnyc.org/NYC074605/glossary.html

• A Web term referring to a method of users communicating one-to-one or in groups over the standard IP protocol. Users can assemble “buddy lists” and chat with friends, family and colleagues.

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• short messages sent simultaneously between users, online at the same time

www.surfcityhost.com/glossary.html

• The ability to exchange real time messages with another computer user on the Internet.

www.slutaroka.com/stopsmoking/Dictionary.html

• Inappropriate use or misuse of instant messaging applications on the Comcast network. Examples include: Sending instant messages that contain threatening, abusive, illegal or libelous material.

preview.comcast.net/terms/abuse.jsp

• A type of communication over the internet in which two people have a private conversation using text.

www.pltimes.com/resources/glossary/

• Instant messaging is a service that allows users to communicate between computers. If set up, an IM service will immediately alert a user when someone from their designated list is online. The user may choose to contact the listee and begin an Internet conversation. AOL, MSN, Yahoo! ...

trottertile.com/CECS5030/glossary1.htm

• a means of realtime communication between two or more people, by use of sending messages across the Internet

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/instant messaging