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  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 bluefrog199

    Member since 15/11/2005

    Reviews written: 53

    4 Stars Room with a Few 04/04/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages fun

    Disadvantages Disadvantages hard work sometimes

    I remember the days when visiting an internet chatroom was about the geekiest thing you could possibly do, short of going to a Games Workshop in a Red Dwarf T-shirt clutching a copy of The Legend of the Lord Wizard of Zarquathor Part IX. Any right-minded person would immediately, instinctively, for the sake of their social status and future inclusion into any non-fantasy-role-playing community, loudly eschew the benefits of such a medium, preferring instead to spend a hideous amount of money in order to be allowed entry to a dark loud room where they would shout banal platitudes into the ears ... more
  • 84 of 84 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    frain2005

    5 Stars Chat rooms it's not all perv's and nerd's 31/08/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good Place to pass the time, play games and chat to people you know.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Pervs, nerds, hackers and scammers.

    -Introductions- Chat rooms are channels on IRC servers that are used by people to communicate and chat, which can be a good thing or a bad thing. Most of you think they are used by Perverts and Nerds, however they are some good places to chat out there and hopefully during this review I will provide advice on using chat rooms, which is what its all about the areas I will look at are, • Finding Chat rooms • Personal Information • Meeting • Teen/Kids • Psychologically speaking • Faking • Screen Names • Scams • Being Watched? • Predators • ... more
  • 57 of 57 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Cheekychicken

    3 Stars Are you a Chat Pratt 13/01/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Making new friends

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Meeting idiots, perverts and complete lunatics

    I have been using the internet chat rooms for years and years now. I remember the first time I ever entered a chat room, I was absolutely terrified of making a complete plonker of myself and I spent what seemed like forever on the outskirts of everyone's conversations. Back then I think most people were as nervous as myself, apart from the odd one or two who thought they were the dog's wotsits. But as the internet grew in size and popularity a new breed of 'chatter' began to emerge. One I regularly began to bump into, none other than the 'chat pratts'. There are some really great opinions in ... more
  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Scatz500

    4 Stars MissBigBosoms Has Entered the Chat... 16/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great way to make an online community of friends

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sex obsessed perverts

    Internet chat rooms… are they the places people surf to, to make an online community of friends or are they an easy way to meet your next one nightstand??? Here’s my advice for “newbies”… My first piece of advice, based on my own early chat room experiences, is don’t even think of entering rooms on sites such as Yahoo!, Excite, Freeserve etc if you are: A) Easily offended or B) Young, naïve and innocent Such chat room sites are public, meaning they are open to anyone, and anything goes. Just because a chat room is labelled “Gardening Fanatics” ... more
  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    spangle359

    4 Stars ICON TACT 10/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages quickly conveys emotion

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not everyone approves

    If anyone had told us twenty years ago that in order to use a computer, we would have to learn a completely new language, do you really think we would all be sitting at home using computers...the answer is probably not.... However, somewhere along the way, after the days of ms dos, hated by all of us who had to use it, a completely new language emerged. It was understood worldwide, needed little explanation and we all picked up within a very short space of time, realising that if we didn't learn it, we couldn't use our computer effectively. I am of course referring to the Graphical User ... more
  • 89 of 89 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    LICARUS

    4 Stars HORNY2NITE WANTS YOU NOW 11/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages great way of meeting new people, fun way to spend a few hours

    Disadvantages Disadvantages can be very addictive,can ruin offline friendships and possibly relationshops plus turn you into a hermit

    The Internet is a very exciting place to be, with endless possibilities to explore. A very small part of the internet are those rooms where hours and hours of fun can be spent, flirting and chatting with different people. When I first started using the Internet 4 years ago, it was the most amazing thing to have all this information at my fingertips. What I found even more fantastical at the time was being able to 'talk' to people from all over the world, without leaving home or being charged exorbitant call charges. I have used many chatrooms, initially starting with the one my Internet ... more
  • 30 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Rosie6349

    4 Stars No chat rooms for me 13/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Meeting new people

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can meet some odd balls

    I have been in some chat rooms and very seldom go in anymore unless I know the group and it is a chat room set up for writers or other things of interest to me or where I already know some people. To me you get in a chat room and there are so many people talking it is hard to keep track of who is taking to who and things go shooting by so fast you have to type your fingers off to keep up. I prefer e-mail chats, or the regular chat services such as yahoo messenger, msn, aol or icq. Each have there own features some more than others. Having added voice and web cam capabilities on yahoo is a nice ... more
  • 33 of 33 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    dave27

    5 Stars Great big heaps of sex online here 11/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Can meet some great mates

    Disadvantages Disadvantages There are dangers

    Unpleasant and fat forty year old seeks young, immature girls who will object to nothing … Now, it may be quite accurate, but you ain’t going to see that sort of thing emblazoned across online profiles, so the obvious bit of advice about chat rooms in general is BE CAREFUL OUT THERE, you don’t know what is waiting for you… It’s actually an absolutely thrilling idea, however, the online chat room - the chance to interface and swap ideas and stories with people the world over, from this new global family of ours, made possible by the wonders of modern science and the shrewd brains that came up ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    paulc20001

    4 Stars It's good to talk or is it 20/12/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages can be fun, make friends

    Disadvantages Disadvantages can be very dangerous in wrong hands

    The press seem to condemn them. TV soaps have used them as a subject to improve storylines. I hear friends who totally refute them. They’re called CHATROOMS Following a rather heated debate with people who I will leave nameless on this occasion, I decided it was about time to try and put a little bit of perspective, and hopefully enlightenment on the computerised taboo subject of chatrooms. I would hazard a guess that over 90% of internet users are of aware of what chatrooms are, and probably a similar percentage have at one time or another used this facility. For those of you who may ... more
  • 21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Saturn

    5 Stars They Know Who You Are . . . 17/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages instant friends

    Disadvantages Disadvantages 1001 hidden pairs of eyes

    "They" really can find out who you are. If you are using chatrooms, be very careful and very aware of the realities of the internet. Firstly, you can be traced. Ok, so you are in a chatroom with an anonymous email address and a fancy nickname haveing a bit of fun with someone you will never hear from again. It ain't necessarily so. How do you know that the other chatter hasn't set up the room just to trace people. If so, then they could find your IP address. From there, it only takes a bit of cunning and a few clever lies to find you. They could, for example, contact your ISP and say that you ... more
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