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Are chatrooms officially dead?

posted 16 years ago by a_rarden
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I was a huge outcast in high school, so I remember coming home everyday from school, going right to the chatrooms, and staying there for hours. When I graduated, I started college; I still logged on and chatted a lot, but not as much as I did before.

I transferred to another college in 2005 and moved in with my dad, and he had wireless, so I never had to log into anything like AOL anymore...it was just clicking on Internet Explorer and jumping right to Google any time I needed to look something up. I downloaded AIM and Yahoo and chatted with my normal friends, but it's been years now since I've been in a chat room. I don't hear anyone else talking about them either.

Are they officially gone? Have they been replaced with cellphone Texting and message boards like these? But you can't just text to a random phone number or come onto one of these message boards and expect an immediate one-on-one conversation, so I would think people would still be interested in them. Is it just me, or has everyone else given up on chatrooms?

[–] RainyCloudz 16 years ago

Yeah, I remember the days of AOL chat rooms and how sad it was we couldn't get into a room cuz it was "full," presumably bc it had all the coolest ppl. LOL.

{S Welcome

[–] fourthdisciple 16 years ago

lol we all like a bit of nostalgia

[–] irishfl80 16 years ago

The one good thing about AOL.

Anyway, chatrooms still exist. Infact, you can still use AOL software (its free now, but full of adware/spyware/RAM draining processes), or download AIM.

However, they're nolonger as popular as they use to be.

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[–] McQueen1980 16 years ago

ya they were huge

i think they were causing too many probs with pervs and the like and people meeting up and probably murders and stuff maybe i dunno

[–] Gandalf_is_cool 16 years ago

Chatrooms dead? Uhmm Yahoo chat is huge, I go on there about 3 times a week to chat.

[–] superstarlet_04 15 years ago

There are too many bots in chatrooms... Makes them completely useless to me now. I could care less if I never went to another chatroom.

[–] jinqui242 15 years ago

I would say web discussion boards have taken over in popularity.

[–] MelonieHead 15 years ago

The closest thing I've found to a chatroom recently is: http://omegle.com/

[–] jp834618 15 years ago

As broadband internet became more accessible around the turn of the century, the chatting communities migrated towards services that could better utilize fast connection speeds and are more user-friendly than something like IRC. Paltalk is one such example, where voice and video chat dominate. Chat rooms are still hugely popular but the landscape has certainly changed.

[–] noirist88 15 years ago

I think web cams are still popular... with pervs. :/

I was bored a few nights ago and joined a UK chat room and loads of guys messaged me because they noticed I was a girl (colour coded blue and pink in there) out of the 8 people I started talking to, only 2 where nice normal guys. I sent "hellos" to some of the fellow girls but with names like "sweet_thang4u" (or similar crap) I don't think they were interested in talking to me. :S

So yeah, chat rooms and message boards (except imdb!) are dead. I reckon the future is in Facebook, Twitter and all those other hundreds of social networking sites. Personally I can't stand them and prefer old style message boards but there you go...

[–] icaptainchaos 14 years ago

You probably also find that the "trolls" in chatrooms have migrated to become "trolls" in imdb ...

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[–] Bishop_of_Battle 14 years ago

So yeah, chat rooms and message boards (except imdb!) are dead. I reckon the future is in Facebook, Twitter and all those other hundreds of social networking sites. Personally I can't stand them and prefer old style message boards but there you go...

Huh? I frequent a few forum besides IMDB and the communities in each one seem to grow larger every year(Not to mention the fact that most forums have a chat or IRC group as well)

[–] Krista2882 13 years ago

I used to chat in this awesome HTML chatroom when I was in high school, and it would crash if there were more than 10 people in it. HAHAHA

[–] clerlic 13 years ago

IRC still has hundreds of thousands of users and there are plenty of random chat channels there.

[–] columntwentyfive 13 years ago

I can think of three different examples where chat rooms in realtime are in use. Each of the three examples though, are setups where the chatroom operates alongside the streaming live video of some event: first) internet music lovers who are particular fans of Rebecca Loebe's could go into a chatroom and have conversations, and interact with Rebecca Loebe during one of her live broadcasts of a concert she would give; second) the remaining two examples are chatrooms that are support utilities alongside video-blogcast where the blogger comes online in a live format to discuss his/her blog topics while interested viewers come around to participate and give realtime feedback. One example is Davey Jacques weekly blog broadcast on BLOGTV.COM. Davey was one of the participants in the recent movie called "Life In A Day".

So, they still exist, only as a complimentary support structure to another vehicle. If there are more ways in which they continue, I'm not aware of it yet.

[–] creamchz 12 years ago

MIRC is awesome. It rocks - im on all the time.

www.mirc.com and its free :)

[–] morganseer 8 years ago

I just checked, and icq.com is still going. Not sure how strong, but still there.

BBL

[–] QOK (1504) 6 years ago

YAHOO CHAT IS DEAD! FINALLY!

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 4 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4mfB9kr08