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Chat rooms???????

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From a time before AOL introduced unlimited access chat rooms were a means to interact with others, especially those known personally but separated by great distance. $1,500.00 phone bills were quite common during those days and in-depth meaningful sharing of information and technique was quite common and/or the planning of events that protectively brought chat room peoples together in a real life setting were often part.
Even before AOL, chat rooms served to overcome the underground exploitations that were so common during those years, chat rooms took D/s from the dirty under the counter magazines and underground paper ads to a point of larger numbers of people coming together under common banner with a sense of dignity and individual expression.
Chat rooms today are not what once they were but they performed a vital service at one time.

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Chatrooms... heh. If I had the strength of will and the patience to do so, I could probably write up an entire thesis categorizing, describing, and analyzing the different types of people that go there and what they are like. Most if not all populated chat rooms have at -least- one person who has been to one of the *chans and considers himself/herself an Anon. It's actually an interesting, if extremely... unique, culture that has evolved over the past decade or so.

Chatrooms for me were actually the only social activity I got growing up, whether they be roleplaying, casual, or cyber. I know that isn't going to paint me in a very good light but, heck. My parents moved around a lot and that meant starting over -again- in a new school -again- and make new friends -again- and leave the ones I managed to make behind -again- and the only stable thing was the net. Parents seperating didn't help, and neither did a lovely season of school in the 7th grade that more or less crippled my self-esteem and turned me into an introvert.

... I got better! Honest! Real life friends, parents are together again, and social activities I swear!

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ORIGINAL: CelticPrince

Due to limited personal time I rarely venture away from the boards, either casual reading them when I have a few moments to spare or replying to comments in a thread that I started.

On rare occasion I have ventured into the many chat rooms to see if there are any regular posters there. It only takes a couple of visits to recognize that over in the chat rooms they are a group with an entirely different mind set. Note that is not to be critical at all, but I do wonder why there is no apparent cross population of the two groups.

Any thoughts?

CP

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ORIGINAL: Arillis

From a time before AOL introduced unlimited access chat rooms were a means to interact with others, especially those known personally but separated by great distance. $1,500.00 phone bills were quite common during those days and in-depth meaningful sharing of information and technique was quite common and/or the planning of events that protectively brought chat room peoples together in a real life setting were often part.
Even before AOL, chat rooms served to overcome the underground exploitations that were so common during those years, chat rooms took D/s from the dirty under the counter magazines and underground paper ads to a point of larger numbers of people coming together under common banner with a sense of dignity and individual expression.
Chat rooms today are not what once they were but they performed a vital service at one time.

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I occasionally joke about chat rooms but seriously I don’t see them as inferior to any other medium. For one thing you always get the raw unedited version of what someone thinks on a subject.

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ORIGINAL: CelticPrince

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I occasionally joke about chat rooms but seriously I don’t see them as inferior to any other medium. For one thing you always get the raw unedited version of what someone thinks on a subject.

Circle,
Nor do I disparage them, but I still wonder why there is not more cross visitation from the two groups.
CP

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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici

I am far too busy to play in the chat pools, the few times I was there, My good time with some regular posters was spoiled by arrogant, vulgar, obnoxious horn dogs, I can get that at the grocery.

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I’m not such a snob regarding chat rooms. Anyone that thinks different types of people exist in different environments needs to open their eyes. It is a medium just like any other and occasionally a really interesting mind would come along and entertain or educate you as is the case anywhere you meet a mind on the internet. You get out of it that which you put in so those that have only ever spent five minutes in one would have a five minute view.

I don’t typically go in chat rooms anymore but only because they took up too much of my time and the discussions are fluid meaning you have to be there constantly to be part of them and can’t just pick up on points mentioned earlier as you can in this medium. You can also spend far too long waiting around for that special mind to come along that is capable of changing your mind about something or demonstrating an issue isn’t as clear cut as you thought.

I occasionally joke about chat rooms but seriously I don’t see them as inferior to any other medium. For one thing you always get the raw unedited version of what someone thinks on a subject.

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ORIGINAL: ShaharThorne

Tis been a while since I partake any chat rooms, I feel more comfortable in a forums setting. Once in a while I get a chat invite, but I decline it. Tis all about personal taste, I guess.

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Tis been a while since I partake any chat rooms, I feel more comfortable in a forums setting. Once in a while I get a chat invite, but I decline it. Tis all about personal taste, I guess.

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ORIGINAL: inkdrips
When I was thinking about creating my own forum on my website I spent alot of time considering the most interesting and widely encompassing headings. Of course, realising that I only get about 3 traffic wkly that's simply not enough to warrant my own forum. But I like forums, especially when the headings are interesting and the people make thoughtful comments.