2. • What does Instant messaging mean?
• Types of Instant messaging.
• What is Windows Live Messenger?
• Features of Windows Live Messenger.
• Users of Windows Live Messenger.
• The benefits of Windows Live Messenger.
• What are the disadvantages of Windows Live Messenger?
• Why do people use Windows Live Messenger?
• How to create an account or email to be able to use this tool?
• How to install Windows Live Messenger? – Jing screen cams.
• How to use Windows Live Messenger? - Video from YouTube.
• Summary of Windows Live Messenger - Glogster.
• References – YouTube video site, Glogster URL, Jing image shots.
3. Abbreviated IM, a type of communications service that enables you to create a kind of
private chat room with another individual in order to communicate in real time over the
Internet, analogous to a telephone conversation but using text-based, not voice-
based, communication. Typically, the instant messaging system alerts you whenever
somebody on your private list is online. You can then initiate a chat session with that
particular individual.
5. Windows Live™ Messenger, the next version of MSN® Messenger, is the world’s
largest easy-to-use consumer instant messaging (IM) service that allows people to
connect with others in real time, expressing themselves in a rich, convenient and fun
way. There are many other reasons why people use Messenger. Users will be able to
enjoy features they love, such as their contact list and emoticons, plus they will be able
to experience all the new things that Windows Live Messenger has to offer. Windows
Live Messenger is free to download and is available in 26 languages and is used by
many users in more than 60 countries by more than 240 million active accounts each
month. It has advantages as well as disadvantages. At the end of the presentation you
will learn how to create an email account, how to install MSN and how to use it.
6. • Emoticons • Alerts
• Winks • Select contacts
• Themes • Cordless phone and webcam designed for
• Actions Windows Live Messenger.
• Skins
• Games
• Status
• Voice clips
• Video calls
• Sharing folders and information
• Configuration
• Offline instant messages
7. • Internet users.
• Adults and children from any age group and any country.
• People who have families and friends living abroad.
8. • chatting with your friends for a low price.
• MSN also has it's own webpages that don't talk only about chatting.
• Easy to use.
• MSN is free.
• Meet new people.
• MSN programs have different versions like Windows Messenger, Messenger 7.5,
Windows Live Messenger.
• you get a bunch of new smilies, new games, options to customize your layout, and lots
of other cool stuff.
• MSN is available in 26 languages and is used in more than 60 countries.
9. • You don't control who adds you to their own contact list.
• Hackers can hack your email account.
• Risky.
• MSN can be addictive, so people stay for long hours on computer and harms their
eyes.
10. • To stay in touch or in contact with their friends.
• Save money.
• Share folders.
• Make video calls.
• To entertain themselves.
• To communicate with people.
• To meet new people.
• To share information and ideas.
• To play multiplayer games with your friends.
• To have group conversation about a specific topic.
11. Here are some steps to follow:
1. Go to www.hotmail.com
2. Click on sign up.
3. Fill in the provided boxes with your information – create an email and a password
of your own choice.
4. After clicking the information, click the “I accept” button at the bottom of the
page.
5. Something will appear to show you that your email has been created and you are
ready to use it.
12. 1- Go to www.google.com
2- Type “Download new windows Live
Messenger” and click search. Then
click on one of the links that appear.
13. 3- Click on Free
download.
4- A box will
appear and then
click on run.
14. 5- Wait until it downloads,
then click on install.
6- After it is installed, an
icon like this will appear
in the desktop.
7- Open the installed icon
and follow the steps. Then
the Windows Live
Messenger will be
downloaded successfully
with an icon on the
desktop.
8- You can successfully use
Windows Live Messenger
and chat with your friends.
17. • How to install Windows Live Messenger:
(Jing Screen Cam)
• How to use Windows Live Messenger:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb-c6YIfs-o
• Windows Live Messenger in general
(Glogster)
http://www.glogster.com/201014209/msn/g-6lu3ein1d1cmrr26ea0dls7
• Cool features in Windows Live Messenger. (n.d). Retrieved November 24, 2011, from
http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Cool-Features-In-Windows-Live-Messenger
• What is instant messaging? (2011). Retrieved November 24, 2011, from
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/instant_messaging.html
• Windows Live Messenger: Windows Live Messenger, the next version of MSN Messenger. (n.d). Retrieved November 24, 2011, from
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/msn/factsheet/WLMessengerFS.mspx
• Pau’s Blog: Advantages and Disadvantages of MSN.(2006). Retrieved November 24, 2011, from
http://paui94.blogspot.com/2006/10/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-msn.html
