from the linked article:

And does anyone know anyone who thought it was a smart thing to do?

Tim Armstrong. I don't remember where I read the article, I believe it was when he announced his resignation, but his goal/hope was for Verizon to spin off Oath into a separate company after the merger of AOL & Yahoo, essentially turning it into a massive media company to compete with others like Google. Verizon didn't though, hence his resignation at the end of the year.

While I hate hangouts with a passion I found the diamond in the rough. I can have two google voice numbers and know exactly where it comes from. So I use the GV app that directly calls my fone for personal and hangouts with VOIP for business :)

Isn't ICQ still around?

pot & kettle

I unfollowed everyone on facebook because it's mostly just pointless or political crap that I couldn't care less about or I would piss people off by responding with devil's advocate tendencies. comments on posts are just as bad mixed with horrible filtering of "top comments". Reddit though feels much more useful on specific topics and hell I don't even have a reddit account, but a lot of times if I am looking up a subject or troubleshooting something I usually will click on reddit posts that come up in search first because usually comments are more useful, at least more useful than anything I ever saw on facebook.

User: "Help! My router is infected with vicious malware" Support: "Have you tried turning it off and then on again?"

fun fact, not everyone uses Google to manage their email
Give that roughly 50% of emails is spam (Sept 2017), I hardly say "problem long solved"

Well. Then. Have a nap. Then fire ze missiles!

I think you mean launchtime

i'd hope russians tamper with our vodka, I love russian vodka

haha dammit... my fail there

if you consider facebook as spam, when why even have an account (or have messages going to your email)? Fomo?

Retarded enough to think a third of the planet's population is 2 million... unless you are speaking from the late 90s.

Well I hope they don't cut the AIM team (er... person) because they are doing a stellar job and I see it becoming the next facebook messenger! /s