Google goes Facebook, AIM goes Twitter

[cos]

AIM has added a new "lifestream" that publicizes your status changes, twitter-style, and is public by default. Apparently, according to antimony, they also make it visible to other people when you "friend" them, which I think means add to your buddy list. If you want to make your "lifestream" not public, go to http://lifestream.aim.com/settings and log in and change your settings. I don't know if there's a way to restore the former ability to add people to your buddy list privately.

Comments

[keshwyn]

Interesting. I was already private.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Huh! I was not when I checked after 10 PM (having never seen this "service" previously), and now I'm really curious what quirk of the system caused you to be private while I was still all public.

[cos]

Mine was set to public. You're the first person I've seen say you were already private. Hmm.

[keshwyn]

Possibly I had already set everything and everything to private some time ago, and they extrapolated? But I don't know...