why don`t normal people use chatrooms?
548223
Years and years ago I used to have a great time on IRC. Then I lost interest. Jumping in now simply confirms what I've suspected all along: I've been PWNED! Oh, the humanity. \n\nYou are absolutely right.
1039182
There are many chatting protocols available out there!\n\nYou should ask specifically!\n\nMost of the errors are caused by unavailable ports used by chatting software.
493469
If you read the content of most chatrooms, why on earth would girls want to get involved?\n\nThey're full of desperate men, who can't meet real girls, trying to use chatrooms as a pickup parlour.
454713
Unfortunately, many people act different because of the anonymous nature of chat.  A person can say anything about who and what they are without fear of discovery.  That freedom leads some people to act as they would like to be rather than as they truly are.  There are also those that use chat to entice other people ... there have been a couple of cases recently, where men have acted like teenagers in order to set up a meeting.  So, yes, people do project themselves differently in chat.
87051
Being very suspicious by nature, I tend to believe that a possible reason why people in the chat room would ask whether you're new to chat rooms in general or to a particular forum is that you could be easy prey for a quick trick.\nOR simply it could be a person in the chatroom trying to spark a conversation with another person in the forum
526061
when u enter chat......choose user rooms.....not the yahoo rooms. that simple.
797134
i agree. but people on here are no different than people anywhere.. especially those on here who are young and a little unsure of themselves..  \n\nbut i agree, communication is everything, and people need to gather up the courage to chat with whomever they are interested in..  \n\npeople can try to read signs and read body languange and ask friends to investigate about information, but it's so much easier to just ask someone outright whether or not they are intested in you..
261317
People who don't live close together can interact via chat/email/instant msg making the world a smaller place ... however some people actually end up getting less "face-time" with real people who are close by (or even in the same household)
528557
◙ download this yahoo chat client. it is way better than using the chats on the yahoo site. these are the same rooms just a better way of using them http://www.yahelite.org/
633001
Most of the time you'll be able to lodge a complaint with the operators of the chatroom. They should be able to help with the problem. Apart from that it usually isn't that easy to get the address of a person and you need to provide more details of what kind of chatroom it is, etc.
4720
chatroom\nor this http://messenger.yahoo.com/\nor this http://www.google.com/talk/\nor this http://www.icq.com/\nall of these will allow you to find a random person to talk to\n"D"
475890
what is chatroom for????
223698
i been watching ur question i knew nobody would answer. but yes  there is a room where u can chat in almost any moment of the day .this is the catholic chat room number 1 there is allways people fighting about religion in there is kind of fun sometimes to see them all fighting it is also bot free believed or not . so if u apretiate having a responce and are satisfied whit it u know what to do . many of the christians chat rooms sometimes have ppl chating too. other than religious rooms i don't know.
305277
What chat room you want? Your information not enough, can't help you... sorry.
334734
This is NOT a "chat room", you could search Yahoo for CHAT rooms, as this is "Yahoo Answers", for asking and answering questions.\nGo to "help" to see the guidelines for this site.\nGood luck.
646312
I've been on Yahoo since the 90s.  Before last summer, there were user/private rooms available in chat.  From what I understand, last summer pedophiles were caught in Yahoo chatrooms, in a room that was sponsored by a major soft drink corporation.  User/private rooms were pulled down in 24 hours, and the ability to make private rooms is now restricted.  Plus, as you say, your IP address is collected.  \n\nMy idea is that this is a make-nice token effort to do something, anything, about the problem of online pedophilia.  It's easy to just change Yahoo IDs, or login from another location or even own multiple computers.  However, chat now is only public rooms, although people can still use private/instant messages.  So for better or worse, since pedophiles know the law to protect themselves from it, I'm pretty sure that that particularly evil brand of sickness is still going on, unfortunately.  \n\nSo due to Yahoo's negligence, pedophiles' sickness and their natural predatory natures, the sick, evil people have once again messed up everything for the rest of us.\n\nK, longtime Yahoo user
991119
Because there are other chat rooms, and IM that you can use to chat.  This site was not meant to be another chat room, surely there can be one place on the internet that doesn't need to be overrun with teenagers looking for dates?