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When i was about 15 i used to go on chatrooms a lot, namely chatropolis with a couple of friends from school. Rooms were managable with only 30 per room and i made loads of friends, met my soul mate there (not that she talks to me anymore) and there was a real community, you remembered people and it was great. I somehow grew out of it and around that time it sorta died its death, its like the whole community broke away and grew up, the chat rooms then disappeared to be replaced with just the adult chat rooms.
So yesterday a bit lonely and bored i tried out yahoo chat and my was it dull and impossible to chat to anyone.
Having 80+ people in a room meant reading text was impossible as it was moving so fast and it brought about a number of sterotypical people.
There was many:
'Any hot chicks in here?'
'Im a sexy bloke with a cam, anyone want to exchange pics or have fun?'
'im a sexy girl, come chat to me you big boys!'
'anyone wana chat? I'm bored'
Also wish this i noticed that as soon as a girl entered the room every guy on at the time messaged them with something from hellos to long sentances.
As a bloke no one wanted to chat to me, even when trying to join into conversations in the room. As a test i entered with a girlie name, every single person in the room wanted to chat to me and i had many pm's from guys.
One my female friends met a guy on a wap chat room called fast flirting, i had a look at it and no wonder she met a bloke, being a girl you could have the pick of the litter, every single person in there (120 people+ per room) was a guy with maybe 3 girls in there.
chat rooms are pretty crap really aint they?
Which brings me onto a question, does thesite have an unoffical chat room, such as on irc? Im sure the whole thing would be a lot better than yahoo chat because everyone has something in common and similar interests so you can chat rather than try and be a virtual pimp.
So yesterday a bit lonely and bored i tried out yahoo chat and my was it dull and impossible to chat to anyone.
Having 80+ people in a room meant reading text was impossible as it was moving so fast and it brought about a number of sterotypical people.
There was many:
'Any hot chicks in here?'
'Im a sexy bloke with a cam, anyone want to exchange pics or have fun?'
'im a sexy girl, come chat to me you big boys!'
'anyone wana chat? I'm bored'
Also wish this i noticed that as soon as a girl entered the room every guy on at the time messaged them with something from hellos to long sentances.
As a bloke no one wanted to chat to me, even when trying to join into conversations in the room. As a test i entered with a girlie name, every single person in the room wanted to chat to me and i had many pm's from guys.
One my female friends met a guy on a wap chat room called fast flirting, i had a look at it and no wonder she met a bloke, being a girl you could have the pick of the litter, every single person in there (120 people+ per room) was a guy with maybe 3 girls in there.
chat rooms are pretty crap really aint they?
Which brings me onto a question, does thesite have an unoffical chat room, such as on irc? Im sure the whole thing would be a lot better than yahoo chat because everyone has something in common and similar interests so you can chat rather than try and be a virtual pimp.
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They do have one on IRC but it's an unofficial one, plus it's not my cup of tea because IRC does my tits in.
I'm waiting for the day when they have a chatroom on ze Site itself.
I recently went back on there to make new friend when wife walked out. but its totally different. as you said most people dont want to talk to you if your a guy or new. so i gave up on that.
Who's in just now?
All dialect was put into a little comic strip form and users could pick what character they wanted to be or make their own - i miss that.
There was also an online game that had a chat room called whats the big idea, players all got asked the same question and whoever answered with the mojority went up a lever on this giant pyramid, whoever got to the top 1st won.
Both of these just disapeared however
/end of thread hijacking
-any hawt chik wit cam?
Well, I just pity those people. I'm glad I realised how shitty the chatrooms are the first time I tried it.
Do you really meet friends in chatrooms? Then you meet up with them, right? I'm against that.
Although I'm not openly against it, I think it's a bit wrong. You can always say that it's safe, you know the person and nothing will happen. If every individual said that, why are there so many people abducted by pedophiles and the like?
Tbh, it's o.k. to meet up with people on the internet. It's just that the statistics are scary. You should just be careful when meeting up, that's all.
And, is it really necessary to meet up with people from the internet? Well, it's fun, but do you need to? Don't you have other people to socialise with? Is it the fact that you're actually meeting up with someone you have never met that makes you do it? I'm just confused...
Being careful if you meet up is the most important thing, in my opinion.
Of course it isn't necessary, but really, why not? If you get on well with people, then as long as you are careful then I really don't see why not.
well quarfly, i'm going to be meeting a lovely female in Göteborg, Sweden real soon, (someone ive got to know from the internet) - fancy joining us? :flirt: :flirt:
p.s i am not really this weird
there are so, so many more people abducted/murdered/attacked by people they didn't meet on the internet.
it's just that you don't hear about many of these cause the media can't sell as many papers with the headline: GIRL SNATCHED BY OFFLINE PERVERT
Indeed. And, if you read about a lot of the stories that do make the press where the Internet is involved, the Internet is just a starting point. Sadly, in a lot of cases, the person involved gets into trouble because he/she is completely stupid after actually meeting the person.
For example, one girl met the person, saw that he was three times as old as he said he was and that he looked completely different to his picture, and yet still agreed to get into his car and go back to his house. Now, excuse me but that has fuck all to do with the internet and everything to do with naivity.
I used to use TheSite IRC but I cba these days tbh.
Some of my best online friends today I met in a chatroom.
I find that blokes usually function better in chatrooms while girls rather wish to move to one-on-one programs like MSN or AIM. I used to prefer chatrooms but now I'm mainly on MSN. Gives me more control over who I talk to and when.
Texting moving fast I don't mind, and I think it's a hell lot easier than having ten+ seperate windows I have to follow.
I don't compare forums with chatrooms, they serve different purposes imho.
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