Instant Messaging

Instant Messenging or IM, is where a person how has an email address can chat back and forth with their friends, it is just like a chat room, however the only participants that can engage in IM are on your friends list. In Second Life anyone playing the game can send IM's to whomever and people even have the options of muting residents or accepting friendship offers to where they are on their friends list to which that can chat back and forth privately or even send out mass confrence calls/ messages (Confrence IM's)