Technology > Circuits > Flip Open That Cellphone: It's IM on the Move" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/technology/circuits/07mess.html?oref=login">The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Flip Open That Cellphone: It's IM on the Move It looks more and more as if IM has outgrown its exclamatory roots in teenage chatter. The Washington-based Pew Internet and American Life Project estimated in early September that 53 million adults use the technology.

I'd say so too. It has gotten to the point where I have to remind some of my staff to close their wireless laptops during some parts of our staff meetings.