Saturday, October 25, 2008

Module 2: Chat Task

On the 3/09/08 I participated in an msn chat with Annette, Bianca, Diva and Maggie. The conversation was quite slow to start off with. However we soon began to develop our discussion and proceeded to talk about spyware, our favorite messenger program, internet usuage allowance at university and viruses. Everyone concluded that their favorite messenger was MSN now known as Windows Live Messenger. However soon we found out that Annette used MSN PLUS. From my previous experiences with MSN PLUS I had found that it contained an optional piece of software which contained spyware. And soon enough our chat moved to the topic of spyware. We covered a number of different ways to rid your computer of spyware. This included programs such as spyware search and destroy. After our long discussion about spyware we then moved on to features we looked for in a messenger.

The common features we all looked for in messengers were videocalling functionality, custom emoticons, file sharing capabilities, blackboard and many others. We concluded that we all used MSN messenger because it contained all of the features that we were looking for and presented them in user friendly way.

I think the chat wet extremely well. The group talked for about 2 hours non-stop. We all got a long well and respected one another. I would be happy to do another chat task with this group any day.

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