If Spam hasn't already forced you to rip every follicle off the top of your head, it's very likely that you will do so in the next few months - All thanks to Spim: Spam For Instant Messengers. Wired has a story on the rapid increase in the number of spim messages that are hitting instant messenger programs all over the world.
Spim is expected to triple from 400 million messages in 2003 to 1.2 billion messages this year, according to Sara Radicati, president of technology market research firm The Radicati Group
Spim is even worse as IMs are usually logged on all day long while emails are usually checked only every now and then; IMs are also proving to be invaluable at work places as well - This should be great for productivity :S
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