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.

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[seventorches.livejournal.com]

I never use staus updates and as far as I know, AIM isn't hooked up to any of my other social networking tools (I have FB, LJ, Flickr, Twitter). I don't otherwise have an AOL account. Does that matter? Can I just leave it alone if I don't already have these things loaded up?