Some rules you should remember when you are using instant messaging

All in all, instant messaging have lots of benefits to our life, but there still has some problem existed. As a result, here are some rules we should remember in order to protect yourself and not to disturb your friends.

DO'S

• Only chat with people on your friend list 
• Mute your smartphone or specific group in your IM apps when you are sleeping so as to prevent someone disturb your sleeping time.

DON'TS

• Do not provide any sensitive information about your such as credit card number, ID number, address in order to prevent hacker obtain your information
• Do not chat and meet with any unfamiliar people who added you in IM
• Do not send any message at midnight unless it is urgently because many people never unconnected WiFi or cellular data.

Instant messaging bring benfits to businesses

According to a trade journal,'The real benefit of instant messaging in businesses, including insurance agencies, lies not in the social or educational value of chats, but in the productivity boosts, cost saving and accuracy gains it can produce'

Instant messaging is a more flexible method than email to communicate with others in business . IM allow users to organize contacts into friend lists and see who is online and available to chat . With most IM programs, users can start real-time conversations with one or more contacts at the same time and also offer file sharing feature.It is an effective and efficient tool for doing team work while everyone can respond instantly.Also, internal communication can be enhanced, if you have any question you can just ask through instant messaging. You don't have to wasting time calling or leave a voice mail while someone missed your call, you can directly send your question to your colleague via instant messaging.

It also can maintain a list of clients, especially benefit to the insurance agency. Among the instant messaging agency can keep in touch with their clients, they can chat with their clients and then promote their proposal, or use instant messaging as a platform to promote the importance of buying insurance. On the other hand, Imagine being on the phone with a client who ask a question you can't answer or busy to answer the question.Instead of holding the caller and finding the answer, you can just take a picture of the proposal and send a voice recording via instant messaging to explain your proposal. That is much convenient and efficient.

Instant messaging changed the ways we communicate with others

Since advanced technology development,today we enjoy lots of thing whereas our grandparents lived without the thing we have today especially the smartphone.

In the past, when people want to talk with others only either face-to-face or by phone. However time passed things had changed. Instant messaging is gaining popular today,it  is not only young adults use this function but also middle- aged people even the elderly they are love to use this. For example, my grandmother already 70 years old, she always uses her IPad and 'WeChat' me. I am quite surprised about this, you know many elderly are refuse and afraid to use those electronic product because of the complicated function. By the way,there's no denying instant messaging can narrow the distance between my grandparents and me, because we living in two different city, I seldom to visit and call them. Instant messaging become a great communication tool to us.

Remember when I was 15 years old, I always hold my cellphone to chit chat with my friends. At that time,i had a monthly mobile plan which is including 1500 call minutes without any cellular data and I never use WiFi. 1500 minutes never enough for me, I usually over the limit and paid an expensive charges. I really forgot how can I over the call minutes limit but didn't use any cellular data and WiFi. In contrast, I have a plan that including 1500 call minutes and 1GB cellular data now. However, I never used that much call minutes.I only consumed about 100 minutes but i usually exceeded the limit of cellular data. The main reason is instant messaging replace directly call. I believe this situation was happened in most people.

Downloading apps in your smartphone and tablet

Nowadays, many people are using smartphone as a result we can download different apps from our mobile operating system such as App Store and Google Play.
Instant messaging is just an application which is run on smartphone, tablet computer. Just a few simple step you can obtain the app from your App store.

WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger is the most popular apps people use to message others.

WhatsApp is my favorite app which is a free app you can download in your apps store.I use this app everyday. I really love this app because it is really convenience, especially my hometown in Hong Kong. I can use this app to keep in touch with my family and friends,without any charge while the long distance phone call might cost the monthly payment. 

what is instant messaging?

Instant messaging is a great tool for people to chat with their friends and family. IM program  uses peer-to-peer networking over the internet  allowing people to send messages instantly to people on their friends list. It not only allowing people to send text message but also voice chat and video conferencing. The most different thing between instant messaging and text messaging is that instant messaging does not charge any fees while using text messaging, your telecommunications company may charge fees from you.When you are using instant messaging you need to connect the internet. Once you connect the internet,you can enjoy to sending real-time message to your friends.


Advantages of using instant messaging
1) Free
2) Able to create a private chat room
3) Great to chat with long-distances relatives and friends
4) Enable to send picture, voice chat and video conferencing.

However is still have some risk of using instant messaging,
1) Instant messaging allows stranger to adding you be a friend / you can add them be your friend so as to chat with them
2) Secure problem.