I have been off line for several years. Use to chat on yahoo messenger, awc (when it was not yet an all sex for pay site), and jmeeting. Been busy with with home life and work life…now once in awhile I am home and bored and want to chat somewhere. But have no idea what is out there that compares to where I use to chat. Any suggestions?
My suggestion is to forget about CHAT and just hang out here. MPSIMS has a thread every week called Monday Morning Post (MMP for short). Despite its name, the thread continues through the week and respawns with a new OP on – you guessed it – Monday mornings.
There’s also other fun stuff to do on the board. What it doesn’t provide in the way of instantaneous feedback to what you say, it makes up for with sheer eclecticism.
Edited to add: I don’t know much about chat rooms, btw. Why don’t you talk a bit about what you’re looking to find in a discussion community?
Not sure what I am looking to find, besides entertainment to my boredome. I do however like talking to ppl about anything and everything. Hard to talk to work associates due to butt kissers who turn you into to HR for your opinions.Hell can’t even post on facebook without getting called into HR where I work. I just want to relax, unwind, let loose…exhale, laugh…forget about real life. Chatting to another person, while my hubby is at work…is a little better than just reading forums.
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I think this will do better in IMHO, where people can give their opinions on different chat options and share their experiences as well.
Moving thread from General Questions to In My Humble Opinion.
IRC and IM chatting has pretty much been pushed aside by newer “social networking” platforms like FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, texting, Snapchat, WhatsApp, etc.
Coincidentally enough, covered in today’s XKCD.
I used to have a “texting buddy”. She was a coworker. It’s funny, we never hung out in real life, we just chatted about this and that on a regular basis. Usually when we were both home and bored out of our minds.
I miss that dang it!
Ah, IRC. That xkcd comic implicitly understates how old it is: It’s been around since the 1980s. In 1991, IRC allowed real-time reporting of the Gulf War, and it got news of the attempted Soviet coup out into the world after the CPSU hardliners blocked all traditional media (more IRC logs); it’s always been used by the technical and somewhat-technical but it never quite made it out to the rest of the world.
Anyway, it’s an open protocol with multiple open source implementations, so no company can kill it; I fully expect it to last for decades to come.
Let me know when you find it. Sounds interesting.
there’s an XKCD for almost everything. 