I don’t sign on to MSN Messenger very often…generally if I go on, I’m invisible to my contacts but I think it’s about time I retire my use of MSN Messenger altogether.

I remember when MSN Messenger first came out…I was still using ICQ, chatting to 2 to 5 to 10 people at a time. I used ICQ so much. And then MSN Messenger came out and I boycotted it…a separate window per conversation? MADNESS !

Though I disliked MSN Messenger, slowly my friends stopped using ICQ…and a chat program is only as good as the people who are on it.

I don’t use Facebook messenger much at all, except to talk to people I can’t talk to thru GTalk or MSN (ex. co-workers). And I find that the 3 or 4 people I might talk to via MSN Messenger, I can talk to through GTalk.

MSN really doesn’t have a use for me anymore…which sucks. I’m the type to save everything. I’m very particular about saving histories, emails…while I cringe at some of the things I’ve written and sent, some of them are very important to my life…and while I would never read them again, I could never delete them. Does that make sense?

Looking back at the chat histories…I associated MSN through 3 emails…
megasigmax [at] hotmail.com, shea.warren [at] gmail.com, and warren.shea [at] gmail.com. The former 2 have been retired for years while the latter is my current one.

MSN Messenger was an important part of my life though. It could very well be the reason why Z and I got together (in an almost literal sense, if you never heard the story…). I have 24 (not all of them completely filled) archives of message with Z since 2004. It’s funny that the story of how we met was a rehearsed, practiced and perfected story 7 years ago but I can barely remember it myself now. The dates are all blurry, the facts all hazy. I’m pretty sure she came on to me. Yes, that seems likely (my past, now rewritten in my head).

The only reason I might use it would be for it’s webcam use which is still really good. I still occassionally use MSN Messenger to chat with my bro and his niece and nephew in Ottawa. I only see them a few times a year, in person, so it’s nice to see them through Messenger.

Anyways, I think I’ll message the one friend that I still talk to frequently thru MSN Messenger and tell him it’s over. This phase of our bromantic life is done. “Time to move on!”, I’ll say.
♩♫♪ breaking up is hard enough. (oh, oh, oh, oh)
say you have nothing,
but i called your bluff.
you got my sweaters,
my hat,
i can’t find my cat (meow!)
the hardest part of breaking up,
is getting back your stuff. ♩♫♩

Anyways…yes, I think it’s about time to say goodbye Messenger. It’s been an awesome era, almost spanning a decade, I’m sorry to say bye but…it’s time.