MSN Moments

Windows Live Messenger or otherwise known as MSN messenger was announced by Microsoft yesterday to be retired by March of 2013 & all its users are to be switched to Skype .

Upon reading this news , I feel nostalgia & a little bit sad about it...
But the funny part about this is that...
I've actually stopped chatting on MSN since the end of 2010,
& I've even almost forgotten about its existence ,
along with  all the memories that came with it,

....until just few days ago.

So I was checking my e-mails on Hotmail & I suddenly thought of doing some 'house keeping' on my MSN contact list while I was at it...
I've found & deleted a whole lot of 'friends' that were either no longer using that address any more , or those whom I totally didn't know them at all from the beginning  , or even  those whom I couldn't recall who they really are...given their rather anonymous & weird profile names & e-mail addresses...

I even logged on to eBuddy  to clear up the remaining messy contacts & took a glimpse at who's still online on the list...

Well,only two were online at that time... not surprising at all...

I've been using eBuddy (a website based Instant Messenger that allows you to log in &  chat on MSN , if you didn't know about this already) a few times back then on PSP , & then at one point onwards I started using  it to replace the software Windows Live Messenger due to the fact that the interface of the newer version kinda annoyed me  , which also became one of the major reason why the time I spent chatting on MSN was reducing ....

It would seemed that I've gradually shifting towards chatting on Facebook since then , just like many of my friends did  & then  I eventually stopped chatting on MSN via eBuddy as well...

After deleting & sorting out my messy contacts on my MSN/Hotmail account , the nostalgic feelings somehow led  me to dig through my personal archive and searched for the old MSN chat logs which I've kept over the years....

The chat logs contains all conversation records of everyone that I had chatted with from the year 2008 till 2010,which were saved using an add-on I've installed called  Windows Live Messenger Plus .
I couldn't remember why I didn't keep records earlier than that ,
it could either be lost or I didn't saved them down at the 1st place..
But nonetheless , the chat logs from that time period were interesting & nostalgic enough..

I read through some of the conversations I had with a few people ,
& it certainly brought me back a lot of memories from last time...

Some of those conversations were the very 1st conversation I started out with that particular person ,& reading through these remind me of how I started knowing them & also how much we had chatted about ,even to a point that it surprised me regarding the things I had written & the things they have told me ,which I'm shamefully admit now that I've nearly forgotten about most of these conversations..

I suddenly realized that I used to know a lot about them & how close we were , but then I forgot about all of these  & we aren't as close as we used to any more...& some even became total strangers by now ...

Yeah I know this is a natural progression when it comes to socializing , I even told the exact same thing to someone long time ago  , but looking back right now , even though I said it like it was nothing back then , but when the things I've said gradually becoming the reality ,
I couldn't helped but to feel rather...

emotional about it.

AND just one day after all these recalling the past ,
The retirement news of MSN was announced ,
quite a coincidence,eh?