Today, one of the most popular ways that young people communicate with each other is through the American Online Instant Messaging Service better known as AIM. No matter where your friends are, you can talk to them with one click of a button. We, as young people, use this service to talk to friends and family over far distances. It doesn't matter if were just saying hello or trying to find out what activities are going on, chances are that we use AIM. Instant Messaging is a reflection of how this young generation copes with a busy lifestyle and lack of time.
             By signing on with our screen name, we gain unlimited access to chat with people all over the world. When we engage in a conversation with a friend online, we tend to talk about what is going on in our lives at the particular time of the conversation. Usually while talking online, we use shortened versions of everyday words called internet jargon, to make it more simple to type. This type of language is similar to note taking. We shorten words to write them faster and accomplish more in a certain time limit. Ultimately, more is said in just a few key strokes then could ever be said in a spoken conversation. For instance, call me 2nite b4 u go 2 bed. With that short message, my friend would know that he or she should give me telephone call before they go to sleep
             that night. The shortened version of the message could be typed in a fraction of the time
             that it would have taken to type out a full sentence. This allows us to communicate faster and more efficiently. Another example would chatting online and using the typed the phrase brb. This tells the person that I will be right back The growing popularity of online chatting is the reason that our generation is becoming some of the fastest typing internet users that you can find. Since we are always in a hurry to get our point across, we tend to keep a faster pace than an older person at th
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