I absolutely hate thinking up screen names. Generally, I like to think of myself as being a fairly creative person. But when it comes to handles, my creativity falls quite short. I’m just no good at it! I can’t think of some clever little combination of words and numbers no longer than 14 characters that doesn’t sound absolutely stupid or that I don’t end up hating two days later.

That being said, I do seem to have several IM accounts spread out all over the place. Being able to combine my AIM, MSN, and Yahoo accounts about 4 years ago would have been awesome. Was Meebo available back then? These days though, IMing doesn’t really seem to be where it’s at anymore. At least with my friends – there are still plenty of people out there in the world that are addicted. A few of my friends use G-Chat, which is nice. And of course Facebook chat. But none of us seem to really be “into” the whole chatting craze anymore.

If by some miracle I was able to resurrect the addiction, I would definitely point my friends the Meebo way. It’s qutie handy.

Do I haveto add meebo as a widget? Is it a requirement? Am I being difficult?

Ok, so libraries could use meebo/chats as a way to communicate about materials etc. without having to pick up the phone. You know, you’re on the reference desk and want to check if another location has an item and you just click on that library’s sn and voila you’re chatting and finding the answer in much quicker time that picking up the phone, dialing the number, letting it ring, waiting for someone to pick up….