U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person

Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by bencollier49 on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @07:17PM (#19496815)

I reckon you're right. This was peak Yahoo Instant Messenger time, and it launched in 1998, just before the graph starts moving downwards.

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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by cortesoft on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @07:39PM (#19496943)

Really? I feel like peak instant messenger time was around 2001 or so... I wonder if it has to do with how old we are?

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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by gowld on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @08:32PM (#19497216)

Peak for you was likely when you were a teen.

But overall? In 2001 computers weren't ubiquitous nor portable. Middle-class kids were on IM on their desktops and maybe laptops for max a few hours per day.

Now kids have phones for IM all day and night.

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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by cortesoft on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:47PM (#19497554)

The grandparent comment was saying that 2006-2008 was peak instant messenger, and people using messengers on phones were certainly not common during those years.

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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by tdurden on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:02PM (#19497610)

It is a shame YIM is gone now; I lost contact with a lot of people where that was our main form of communication.

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