The same thing happened with Yahoo Instant Messenger and Hotmail messenger. Those were two different instant messengers but once AOL came along, everyone switched to that. Just as Friendster was the fad and now Myspace, probably means, a combination of the two will come out in the near future.
Tiffany that is a really good comparison to what we were reading about. I remember the days of ICQ when i was in Jr high and how it switched from that to aim by the time i got to highschool. I guess every 2 years its a change.
I'm glad that you brought up previous fads...I am also wondering about how (and the other whys) more will develop in the future.