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Stowe Boyd is a well-known media subversive, and an internationally recognized authority on real-time, collaborative and social technologies. His new blog is Message.
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March 10, 2005

Article on Instant Messaging Viruses

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Posted by Stowe Boyd

I was interviewed by Celeste Biever of NewScientist for a peice published today: Worms flood instant messaging networks. And of, course, I had to make a sex analogy:

More likely to protect IM is the fact that people tend to have far fewer contacts stored in their buddy lists than their email address books, says Boyd, because it is a more intimate form of communication. "It's the difference between shaking hands and having sex," he says.

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