Nowadays IM’s are showing up just about everywhere. The question is do you really want it to?
You can end up with an IM in your email (Gtalk in Gmail) and in your social networking (Facebook) and even while you are using another IM tool (Jabber).
Do we really need all of this connection? It leads to a chronic form of distraction. A kind that keeps you from getting any kind of real work done.
Don’t get me wrong. An IM can be a great productivity tool, just like a cell phone. Like a phone there is a time and a place to turn it off. Otherwise everything that you try to do will be endlessly distracted. A 30 minute task could end up taking you 2 hours.
Maybe, we should learn to turn off the constant chatter and just focus.