Mobile smart phones have become widely accessible and with them is the access to instant messaging; Through apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger sending a message to someone from your phone takes seconds and everyone is permanently available. With the advent of instant messaging, we lost something; which was the need to log onto a platform to communicate. By looking at how instant messaging has transformed from AOL Instant Messaging and Windows Messenger from the late 90’s to WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, I am hoping to examine what the possible future of messaging would be by comparing the different affordances offered by these platforms and how they have shaped communication.  For example; how the constant access we have to social media/instant messaging makes us less susceptible to phone calls but also through our continuous online status we have lost the urge to physically “log in”.