I-messenger

It's actually Instant Messenger; I just made it I-messenger to sound like the I-pod. Before, people send messages through hand-written letters and send it the post office, and from there, a mailman would pick it up and send it to who knows where. Now, there is this email that you could write off-line and send it on-line through the miracle of the Internet. Then comes IM. Instant Messengers are around for what, 3 or 5 years? At those times IRC was the latest fad then it evolved to chatting to private friends and then those buttons that can turn yourself invisible! Ok, people created the IM to have fun and relate to others from people around the world, and later became scary when those predators hunt innocent victims to devour, and so the invisible feature was installed. Out there in the wild, wild web, there are dangers lurking, secretly stealing your passwords, credit card numbers, and even your dog's SSS number. There are these pop-ups that magically pop-ups and show you horrifying links, taking you to a dark corner in the alley and get mugged. Today, the Internet is not safe anymore: spy-ware, ad-ware, mal-ware trying to penetrate into the system especially to those who doesn't update their OS, holes, worms and so on, and so forth. There will come a time when an evil ruler will release the beast into the jungle and bring the Internet civilization into a halt, and everything will be in stand still and dark. And hand-written letters will be the fad again (like that movie The Post-man!).

Of course, this is something from a sci-fi story and will not happen in real life. It's still safe out there you just need to be honest, and equipped. And, I read news articles that there has been arrests of these criminals (though not sure if everyone got caught). But users are in hundred millions, it's like winning the lottery (or losing), and who would care that anyone will have an interest on you? We'll never know. Hahaha!

Now that AJAX is sprouting from everywhere, maybe they could make the IM web-based to be cross-platform, and available wherever you are in the planet. Sounds cool!