Many viewers of Olympic swimming were confused by the Men’s IM 200 event. When announcers said, "Up next, the Men’s 200 IM event…" blank stares popped up all over the United States and Canada as men ran to their computers to load up AOL and begin instant messaging.

I wanted to support Team USA so I loaded up my AOL and looked for the first buddy who was online to IM for the Gold.

NBC reported that the second reason people stopped watching the Olympics last night, behind the first reason, poor commentators, was the switch to computers. One person interviewed, who wouldn’t give us their real name but did give us 'CybrGrrl034' said, “I can download MP3’s and keep track of the medals at the same time. OMG! [Oh, My God] I have to go, K-Slice just said Justin likes me.”