‘If all of life is like high school, at last we have the answer to the question that goes to the core of our id-driven, zit-popping, green-eyed insecurity:

Are you more popular, at this very second, than the person who’s instant-messaging you?

Instant messaging, you will know, is the way tens of millions of Americans connect with their buddies faster than e-mail. The 50 million users of AIM, America Online’s version of instant messaging — including nearly half of all Americans between the ages of 13 and 25 — can now perform a self-esteem check by visiting www.aimfight.com. There you enter your AOL or AIM screen name and your friend’s AOL or AIM screen name. Then you click “fight” to figure out who’s got a bigger score — as in who’s better connected and more popular. You can almost hear the tap-tap-tapping on the keyboards right now.’

Read more at HoustonChronicle.com - Why AIM is a barometer of popularity

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