Unilag Instant Messaging aka Chat
Instant Messaging is a form of electronic communication that involves immediate correspondence between two or more users who are all online simultaneously. It is a conversation made up of typing rather than speaking words.
An instant messenger is a client which hooks up to an instant messaging service. Instant messaging differs from e-mail in that conversations happen in realtime. Also, most services offer a "presence awareness" feature, indicating whether people on one's list of contacts are currently online and available to chat. Generally, both parties in the conversation see each line of text right after it is typed (line-by-line), thus making it more like a telephone conversation than exchanging letters. Instant messaging applications may also include the ability to post an away message, the equivalent of the message on a telephone answering machine.
Popular instant messaging services on the public Internet include Jabber, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, .NET Messenger Service and ICQ. These services owe many ideas to an older (and still popular) online chat medium known as Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
The Instant Messaging service in Unilag is run on a Jabber Server and you can click here to join Unilag Chat