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Personal message, often abbreviated as PM, is a private form of communication between different members on a platform. It is only seen and accessible by the users participating in the message. It has grown popular because of the increasing demand for privacy and collaboration in this society where the public sharing domain dominates. There are two main types of personal message: a feature on social platforms and private messaging services. Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are all examples in which social media included personal messaging features to provide space for private interactions amongst their users. WhatsApp, Kik Messenger, and Snapchat are examples of pure private messaging tools. Users create and sign up for accounts to connect privately with selected friends. Besides serving as a tool to connect privately with friends and family, personal message has also gained momentum in the workspace. Professionals are using it to reach coworkers who are not located in the same room to increase efficiency during meetings and work time. Although useful, personal message facilitates the fuzzy boundary between work and private lives. For many, it makes work hours longer and private times shorter.〔Lee, T. 2010, September 30. Power of the personal message. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/09/29/can-twitter-lead-people-to-the-streets/reaching-and-persuading-the-masses〕〔My messages (forum comment ). Retrieved from http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Personal_messages〕〔Advantages and disadvantages of an instant messenger. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.bigantsoft.com/tutorial/Advantages-and-Disadvantages-of-an-Instant-Messenger.html〕〔Wagner, K. (2013, December 27). Why social networks are crazy private messaging. Retrieved from http://mashable.com/2013/12/27/social-networks-private-messaging/〕 ==History== As early as 100 BC the first form of personal messaging was put into action, when human messengers were used to send messages across lands. As time went by, new methods of personal messaging developed. The development of computers sparked the information revolution, which changed the way humans communicate with each other. Peter Drucker published an article centering on the theme that the computer is to the Information Revolution, as the railroad was to the Industrial Revolution. The railroad unified the United States from the east to the west coast, but the computer unified the entire globe (from a communication standpoint). In unifying many nations across the globe, the computer revolutionized many different forms of communication, in particular the personal message. The advent of the Internet paved the road for communication platforms like ARPANET, or the more-commonly known Yahoo! and AOL. ARPANET sent the first-ever email back in 1971, and thus a new form of the personal message was born. This form of personal messaging allows users to send messages at the click of a button. The popularity of email as a form of personal message has skyrocketed since, and will continue to be an apt platform for personal messaging. Today, the most typical forms of personal messaging involve social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In 2010, Facebook announced a new Facebook Messages service, which allowed users to send personal messages to each other via the Facebook site. Twitter jumped on the bandwagon and introduced their own form of personal messaging in 2013. Modern forms of personal messaging can even include sending picture or video messages. Snapchat is an app that allows users to send personal pictures or videos to other users. Here’s the trick: The pictures and videos can be viewed for 1–10 seconds, after which they will disappear and be deleted from Snapchat’s servers.〔Crocker, D. (2012, March 20). A history of e-mail: Collaboration, innovation and the birth of a system - The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/a-history-of-e-mail-collaboration-innovation-and-the-birth-of-a-system/2012/03/19/gIQAOeFEPS_story.html〕〔Drucker, P. F. (1999, October). Beyond the Information Revolution - 99.10. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm〕〔The History of Communication. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_history_of_communication.htm〕〔Honan, M. (2013, December 10). Twitter Makes Its Play for Private Messaging | Gadget Lab | Wired.com. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/12/twitter-private-photo-sharing/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Personal message」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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