...yahoo.com/ operates in much the same way as another. As long as you're a Yahoo member you can enter any of the myriad of rooms you can find on the site and they cover all manner of interests, including Business & Finance, Computers & Internet, Cultures & Community, Entertainment & Arts, ... Read review
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A review by dave27 on yahoo.com September 16th, 2001
Author's product rating:
Quality of Discussions
Average
Advantages:
Great program
Disadvantages:
Unpleasant visitors
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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"I LIKE SEX"
"HOT VIRGINS ARE MY SCENE"
"YOU UNITED SCUM SHOULD BE BRUTALLY MAIMED"
Oh dear, dave27 has gone absolutely mental and is trying to offend as many minorities (yes, United fans are still in the minority) as possible in the space of three lines, what's he on?
Well, actually it ain't me, and if you've spent even five minutes in the shadowy world of Internet chat forums, you'll doubtless identify the above witty repartee as being fairly typical of the intellectual stimulation and challenge which awaits your pleasure when you log into this sort of program.
Like them or not, chat programs and chat rooms are a core part of the Internet and not to be ignored. They've also had to bear an extraordinary amount of bad press over the last few years for the satanic activities associated with them. Recognise, however, that like guns, it's not the chat rooms that are evil, but the people who use them for the wrong reasons. Of course, Internet chat facilities are ideal for people who wish others wrong because they hide one's identity, allow one to present oneself as a saint and give one easy access to all sorts of impressionable minds. But enough of me and Mrs D...
There are an awful lot of different chat programs out there, but among the best are the facilities that our friendly little bods at Yahoo offer for nowt.
Yahoo, in fact, run loads and loads of really ace progs, all accessed via their portal/home page, and their chat facilities are every bit as good as the E-mail, Clubs, Calendars, Classified Ads and all the rest.
There are a couple of options provided by Yahoo if you want to chat. They're both basically the same, although one is an awful lot safer than the other.
The standard prog, which you can access via http://chat.yahoo.com/ operates in much the same way as another. As long as you're a Yahoo member you can enter any of the myriad of rooms you can find on the site and they cover all manner of interests, including Business & Finance, Computers & Internet, Cultures & Community, Entertainment & Arts, Movies, Television, Family & Home, Games, Government & Politics, Health & Wellness, Hobbies & Crafts, Music, Recreation & Sports, Regional, Religion & Beliefs, Romance and Science.
All you do is click on the relevant chat room to enter and the Yahoo software logs you in to the system. The screen includes a big message board in the middle, a pane to the right showing which other Yahoo members are pointing at the room (called Chatters), with some tools and facilities at the bottom.
A series of messages from the members present comes up in real time and you just type in your own message to take part. You can also have private conversations with any of the members by clicking on their name and clicking the 'PM' button which opens a small messageboard which only you and the other member can see. In this way, you can have one to one conversations or dip your toe into the open chaos of a packed chat room where anything goes.
You can also listen in on voiced messages and speak your own messages using a mike, although I've not tried that yet. Sounds a bit scary if you ask me.
You can also drop in items from a range of emoticons provided, but be warned, chat is an unforgiving medium and it's easy to get misunderstood. You can't read body language or hear the nuances of tone and it's easy to get your messages mistakenly assumed to be an insult, so be very clear about what you are trying to say.
Whenever I've chanced it in one of these free for all arenas, I've never come across anything of any use or which is particularly enjoyable, as most of the time there are some fairly undesirable creatures abroad, who just want to swear, utter profanities or give you a hard time. You can get into some pretty dangerous and horrible conversations if you encounter some of these racist, sexist, misogynistic, hateful dudes and the best advice I can give is stay away.
What is a much more refined, friendly, controlled experience is the chat facility you find on each of the various Groups you can join at http://groups.yahoo.com/ which operate using the same program as the free for all chat rooms, except that the participants are limited to members of that particular group, so in general they're less unpleasant, better known and more helpful, although the counter to that is that there tend to be less people around.
Last night, for the first time I tried out the chat room at the Ciao UK group at about eleven and had an hour or so on there with Connoisseur Haggler, Excelle, Peter Smyth and Dizz and after I'd got the hang of the way things worked, found it quite a pleasant experience. If you get more than three people in there at any one time, it can get quite complicated trying to work out who's talking to who, but with a combination of the PM facility and the open message board, you can get some decent threads going and a chart room in full swing is a remarkable thing.
I'm going to be going there regularly from now on with the wonderful community of Ciao-ers and I'll be trying out the facility with some of the other groups I belong to, although you can only be in one chat room at any one time.
When you get a decent set of people, who have even the modicum of decency and self restraint, then a chat room is a lovely, friendly, lively, interesting place, but take my advice and steer clear of the free for all version of Yahoo, because it tends to be overflowing with troglodyte adolescents who have just learned some marvellous new swear words and long to share the experience.
My biggest fear is to get shut in one of these rooms with any of the multitude of churners and abuse merchants that you encounter at Ciao and Dooyoo, and I'm fairly certain things could get very nasty in that case. If there's that many nasty pieces of work on opinion sites which normally demand at least some intelligence, think what demons could be lurking in the dark recesses of chat room land, with their clubs held aloft and their hairy toes poking out of their sandals while they pick their teeth and try another one:
"HA HA HA HA, SCUM SUCKER, I'M GOING TO EAT YER GONADS FER BREKKY...."
Good evening, Uncle Herbert, and how are you this fair evening?
Advantages: make new friends Disadvantages: some large rooms can disappointing
Yahoo.com has more than just news information etc, it has all the features of a typical web host but the real reason of this opinion is yahoo chat.
It offers its own version of MSN, AOL and ICQ, registered Yahoo’ers can download a simple messenger which is very similar to those listed.
This allows you to chat one to one instant message style, or add a contact; people with similar interests to yourself can be located easily through the people ... ...on other messengers, and the ability to change font styles, colours and emotions are included too.
As with MSN that requires you to have a Hotmail email account , you need to sign up to yahoo and get an email address, however you don’t have to use it, only to get your messenger, this notifies you while you are using it whether you have new mail and you can access it instantly from messenger.
Another good point here is that it is virtually ...
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We got our computer (second hand) back in April/May of this year and immediately downloaded Yahoo Messenger, a must to use in all Yahoo Chat Rooms.
You can log on under as many aliases as you wish. Once logged onto the system there are a number of categories for you to enter ie: Teens, Romance and Relationships, Music etc.
You can enter the chat rooms in two different ways. If you have downloaded Yahoo Messenger you can enter via this way (which ... ...you need Java enabled to see the chat window and to see who is in the room with you.
Once in you can start chatting.
There are a number of things that you can do within a chat message. You can add emoticons, ie smiley faces and certain ones do certain things. ie. <:-> will make an emoticon with big hands (ie a hug)and there are various others that you can do as well as the original ones, :-) ;-) etc.
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Yahoo instant messenger Yahoo messenger is it like the other?
The answer to that question is it is similar; icq, msn and yahoo are all the similar instant messengers.
Yahoo instant messenger is a good program that has a lot of features that change every so often. The features that yahoo has are:
--- Message ---
The message symbol is for you to send a message to a friend rather than just clicking on the name u highlight the name then you can click ... ...a little yahoo instant messenger box where you can send a friend an instant message.
--- Chat ---
The chat box is for you to join any room that you want one yahoo. Yahoo has several chat rooms that you can visit all you have to do is click on the chat box and you will be able to chat. There is all different type of chat rooms to teen chat and too business chat. All you have to do is click on the chat logo and then the room that you wish to go into ...
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Advantages: It's free, OK if your friends use it and you can stay out the chatrooms Disadvantages: The users, the booters, the chatrooms.
Way back in the mists of time (1995 to be precise) two Stanford students, David Filo and Jerry Yang, set up a search engine called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". It wasn't really a search engine as such, just more a categorised guide to the net. As happened with such things, it went commercial and rebranded Yahoo because the founders liked.the definition of Yahoo which was as a rude, unsophisticated, uncouth person.
It evolved, and eventually ... ...Now you could chat with your mates AND go into chat rooms as well. The question is, is it any good? Well it's been around for a few years now, and to be honest that depends. Why? Read on.
My main reason for getting Yahoo back in 2003 was primarily becaise several of my friends were using it. Up to then I'd always used the good old IRC networks, which I discovered back in 1995 when I also first got online. The problem was my mates weren't as technically ...
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Advantages: Lots of info in one place, good email storage Disadvantages: Receive lots of spam, website is aimed more at US users.
...the UK signing up with Yahoo.com maybe wasn't the smartest idea I ever had, however it was 12 years ago when I signed up, I was young and naive. I mainly used Yahoo.com for the email account that you get, it's a free account that gives you a lot of storage. It's a webmail service which means that your mailbox is online and as such requires no space on your hard-drive, but you have to be online to access your emails. Setting up the account is easy ... ...offers' aka spam. Yahoo.com as a whole has a whole load of other features, similar to any other major email/broadband provider. Such as chat sites, dating, music streaming, movie news, finance, messenger, games etc. I used the chat sites a long time ago, and back then they were fun, but now they are a lot more moderated and swearing seems to be a big no no, even in the adult rooms. I also used to use the Fantasy Football (UK Football) it was good ...
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