Few years ago, a lot of of us
e-mail as an alternative of writing letters or even calling people over the
phone. Till the arrival of IMs, E-mail has been the best and swiftly adopted
form of communication ever known amongst the world. With the rise of Internet
based IMs revolutionized the way of our communication standard. Earlier in the
technology world, not many of the people were aware of its applications. In the
company of IM application, people can keep a catalog of contacts to whom they
interact with essentially.
Excluding the fact, sometimes even e-mail isn't fast enough and in
the middle of the way stuck within the path and get expired due to wrong
address or server error. Natives around the world send out volumes amount of
e-mail messages at every minute. People sometimes might not know about the
reality that a person wants to be e-mail is online at that moment or not and
there is need to be contact him/her through phone about their availability
within that required location. To
eliminate this kind of dilemma, instant messaging (IM) applications were now
become so admired world-wide.
With in the IM application ,
people chat via sending message or video conferencing through various channels
like SKYPE , Gtalk , Yahoo Messenger etc. But for video conferencing there are
some requirements . They were :
- For desktop user : A webcam and headphone with calling facility is must.
- For laptop user : Generally , now laptops were inbuilt come with webcam and speakers and if they were unavailable , the requirement will be the same as desktop user needs to be communicate .
Typed messages were viewed by
both sides within this communication into a small window that shows up on the IM's screens.
The majority IM software provide features according to their user requirements.
Those wee:
- Audio - Talk with each other via headphone with speaker.
- Chat - Makes a chat room according to preference with associates or companion .
- Instant Messages - For sending texts .
- Sharing - Any kind of file transfer through it example images , video , documents etc .
- Video - For sending videos.
Into this segment, I tell you
about the applications of instant messaging software and how it becomes a part of
day-to-day life.