[eropple]

It's funny that you say that, because I grew up in the same time frame (graduated high school in 2006) and I don't think I ever touched MSN Messenger. Where I was, it was AIM all the way.

So perhaps less generational, more just the network effects that existed on the ground.

[whereistimbo]

I remember the times where Yahoo! Messenger and MSN/Windows Live Messenger could chat each other. Those were the days.