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Online Chat & Date

2012-01-26T13:05:00.000-08:00

The USA is such a huge country, there are so many states and the distance to travel between cities and towns is vast. This is where online chat and dating became popular.

Online dating USA is big business, thousands of singles log on to dating sites across America to chat and date. In fact American online dating has also created several spin-off business such as dating site link exchange businesses.

These dating sites and associated business all work to offer people who are single and perhaps a little lonely, the opportunity to meet like-minded others to chat with and date, from state to state.

Online Chat

Online chat is a great way to see if you spark up and interest in someone. Most chat and date sites are free to join and you can browse potential partners or buddies. Then if you see some people who you fancy chatting with, usually you will need to pay to fully subscribe. This can put some people off, but in reality you have to be in it to win it, so for a small monthly subscription fee, many people consider it money well spent.

Chat can sometimes be a bit limited and frustrating. You have to wait for that person to come online so that you can interact, also it can tale time for someone to respond if they are chatting with others or doing something else at home.. Patience is a virtue.

Chatting will hopefully lead to a first date and this being the case, you will have become familiar with your online friend prior to meeting for real. Many people find this quite reassuring as it means you will have a few topics of conversation to share on your first real date.

Does It Work?

More and more Americans are choosing online dating to find a match, there are plenty of niches to choose from, such as sports dating, mature dating, and even flirty dating.

The days of online dating sites being only for the desperate are long gone. This tired perception is no longer the reality, if it ever was? More and more people are citing dating sites as the place to meet a partner with marriages resulting from couples using dating sites increasing to nearly 20%.

The stats also show that couples who meet online and marry, tie the knot far quicker (almost half the time) than those couples who meet offline.

In all, online dating USA is a great way to meet a new partner, and starting off chatting is by far the best way. Why not take a look next time you're online. You may be surprised as to the many different online dating sites out there which may cater for your particular tastes.

Article by Simon Lucas.

Dating For Mature Singles

2012-01-26T11:40:00.000-08:00

If you're over 40 years of age and looking for love, the usual dating sites like match and zoosk can be a bit of a free-for-all. There are all different ages of people registered and it can be quite fruestrating if you've no interest in youngsters and all you get is people looking for a sugar daddy or sugar mommy.

This is where mature dating sites come in really useful. There are plenty of mature dating sites for mature singles on the internet, and most will allow you to register for free. Once registered you can browse profiles and add favorites. Then, if you see someone you really like, you can sign up and subscribe, this gives you the chance to send an email or ice-breaker.

Benefits Of Mature Dating

Many mature people who find themseves to be single in later life are often looking for a different kind of relationship to that of a teenager or someone in their twenties or thirties.

There is less emphasis on marriage and starting a family, either because they have already had a family with someone and it didn't work out, or because they decided not to have children. This means that on a mature dating site there is less pressure to rush into things. Single folk in the 40+ age group have seen and heard it all before too, so no need for cheesy chat up lines.

The emphasis becomes more about companionship and friendship, that's not to say older people lose interest in romance or sex, it's just not so high on the agenda. Somone on a matire dating site will find a more relaxed and less "picky" environment.

Features

Most mature dating sites offer free sign up with a fee to fully subscribe which can be most useful if you just want to check out the members before you pay up.

There will be the usual option to upload photos and a blog, as well as add some information about yourself. Members can wink, add favorites, send ice-breaker and update their profiles easily.

If you are in your 40s+ and single then it's a great way to meet new people, you can find many mature dating sites by searching on Google.

Article by Simon Lucas

Anastasia Dating Special - Get 30 Free Credits

2011-12-29T09:28:00.000-08:00

For men only! Sorry ladies but I promise I will write something for you as well in a little while.

Is one of your New Year resolutions to find a beautiful wife? Why not try Anastasia? It's a premium international dating site where women from Russia and Ukraine come to find a partner. For the holiday season Anastasia is giving away 30 credits for free to new members who join. Once you create your account and redeem your credits you can use them to contact the women on the site. Click here to join Anastasia now!.

Register now and Get 30 Free Credits at Anastasia International. Free credits will be credited within 24 hours. No coupon is required. Remember Anastasia is a first-class dating site. Complete your profile now and get 30 Free Credits!

The world is a village, you future wife might be a few clicks away even if she lives in East Europe.

Happy New Year and a new Free Dating Site

2011-12-27T06:58:00.000-08:00

I will most likely not have enough time to write anything new before 2012 so I would like to take this time to thank all of you my subscribers who kept on reading my articles. Thank you for your comments. Thank you for adding me as a friend on Facebook. Thank you for liking my Facebook fan page. I also have a twitter account (@ChatRoomsGirl)and if you want you can follow me there as well, just mention me and I'll follow you back. I also recently joined Google+ (https://profiles.google.com/u/0/117751091685780093939) you can add me to your circles there as well.

I love to hear from you, feel free to leave comments, send me emails or private messages on Facebook and Twitter or Google+. Send me feedback and requests if you would like me to write about a site that you enjoy. If you are a webmaster and have a chat site contact me so I can review your site.

I’m going to make a few changes to the design next year; the goal is to make it more appealing visually and easier to navigate. Also I will try to make it easier for you to get to the content that you are looking for.

For those of you you did not find love this year there is hope. Try
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There are numerous free dating sites out there and you probably have tried quite a few, this is a new one I just discovered. Give it a try and see who you can meet. Don't hesitate to let me know how it works out for you.

Christmas Chat and Parties

2011-12-08T06:33:00.000-08:00

In a little over two weeks it will be Christmas. I know that many of you celebrate Christmas and love to give and receive gifts during that season. For those of you who cannot be with family and friends for this holiday season rest assured that the many free chat rooms featured on this site will all be open and filled with people who are there to find someone to talk to as they are probably in the same situation as you, that is home alone on the holidays! One more reason why you will find lots of people online is because most chat rooms featured here are open to users worldwide therefore people in different time zone who are not yet celebrating Christmas or are done celebrating already will be online when the parties and dinners are taking place in your own time zone. In the end, it doesn’t matter while they are online at this time, what really matters is that you will have company during that time and that alone should be a good reason to be positive and cheer up. After all the Holiday season is a time for cheer and joy no matter where you are spending this season or what you are doing.

Of course if you would rather not spend Christmas by yourself one thing you can do is throw a Cosplay Christmas party. If you love Cosplay and want to have fun this Christmas go ahead and set it up. Invite your friends and neighbors. You can either rent, buy or make your own Cosplay Christmas Costumes to have the look you want and if some of your friends have not idea what to wear at that party you can simply help them out. There are many sites that offer a wide selection of Cosplay Christmas costumes for all ages, shapes, sizes and taste. If you think that having a Cosplay Christmas Party is too much you're wrong, all over the world people just like you are doing it. It's a good time to let out your more creative site and simply have fun and gather your Cosplayer friends and those new to Cosplay.

Online Dating for UK Singles

2011-11-28T11:23:00.000-08:00

You're single, looking for love and you live in the UK. I have just the place for you: imyours.co.uk. The site's motto is, "we'll help you find love". For Singles Dating UK personals, ImYours is the right place to go. Among other features, the site has live chat rooms and an instant messaging tool. The home page has featured members. You see pictures of real people who are members and are looking for love just like you.

If you find love on Im Yours dating you can share your story for a chance to win £100 in cash. While you can't put a price tag on love you could always use the extra cash for a romantic date with your new love.

An icebreaker tool is included for those who don't really know how to go about this online dating thing. It makes asking members out easy, takes the drama out of it and gets you started painlessly. When you send messages, to get noticed and put a smile on the receiver of your message you can include virtual gifts.

If you want to have an idea of what to expect before you join, go ahead and start with a search, for men or women in the age range and area that you are interested in. You will be shown the first few results, to see more you will need to register, it's quick, easy and free. Once you are a registered member you will be able to view photo and video profiles of other members and your own profile will show up in searches.

How to join

First of all You must be at least 18 to join. Go to the homepage, enter the basic information that is asked and click register, alternatively you can click Join using Facebook and use your Facebook account to register. This option is very convenient because this way you do not have to create a separate online profile just for dating. This option is especially appealing for those who spent time building their Facebook presence and have a good command of the sites privacy features. Of course, you can join for free.

If you are looking for Mature Singles Dating ImYours is the right place for you as well as it has an area for mature adults 50+.

If you're single and looking for love in London, Manchester, Poplar, Kensington, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Barry, or Port Talbot you should try Im Yours.

credits: all images taken from imyours.co.uk

How to find Philippines chat rooms on Yahoo?

2011-11-18T05:03:00.000-08:00

A number of readers asked me repeatedly to show them how to find the Philippines chat rooms on Yahoo! chat. I finally found time to put together this little guide to show everybody how to easily find and join any one of them in six simple steps.

Step 1: Sign into Yahoo! messenger

Enter you ID and password to sign in.

Step 2: Find the Yahoo! Chat entry under Messenger>Yahoo!Chat>Join a Room

Go in the Messenger menu and find the Yahoo chat entry.

Step 3: Expand the Regional chat rooms list

Locate the Regional category and expand it by clicking on the little box with the croos in its center.

Step 4: Expand the Philippines chat rooms list

Locate the Philippines category and click to select it wait for the list of Philippines chat room groups to load.

Step 5: Choose the room with the most people

Locate and expand your preferred Philippines chatroom group. Select your desired group from the list and double click to enter -alternatively you can simply click on the room and then click on the Go to Room button at the bottom on the window-.

Step 6: Enter the word verification [captcha]

Enter the words that show up in the white box and click the Submit button.

Step 7: Enjoy chatting with random strangers in the Philippines

Enjoy your time chatting with other Yahoo users inside the Philippines chat room!

Didn't I promise you this would be simple? As you can see finding and entering the chat rooms in the Philippines on Yahoo chat is extremely easy.

More about the Philippines chat rooms on Yahoo! chat

If you click on Philippines you will see a list of chat room groups for that country. There are Philippines room intended for general Philippines chat, for people anywhere in the country or Filipinos outside of the country or anybody interested in the Philippines in general and/or its People.

You will also find more specific rooms like: Ceby Tambayan, Luzon, Metro manila Barkada, Mindanao, and Overseas Filipino Workers Zone. As you can see not all the rooms are based on geography but there is a broad choice as each of the room groups I just listed have a number of individual rooms under them where people are actively talking.

You want to get more out of your experience in Yahoo chat?

Take part in the chats going on inside the room. It's a good way to get notice. Don't spend all your time sending private messages to random users, trust me, it's usually very annoying when you are on the receiving end of such messages. While you are free to chat privately with anybody in Yahoo! chat the other users are also free to ignore your request. In fact most people ignore private messages from users not on their friend list, keep that in mind the next time you get impatient waiting for a reply from a stranger on Yahoo chat.

Do not hesitate to ignore trolls. Many people enter random rooms just to test and see what it takes for Yahoo to boot them out of the rooms. Sometimes they just copy and paste the same thing over and over again or they use this extra large font that takes up all the screen. You will also encounter a number of bots asking you to click on links or posting random things that have no sense with the ultimate goal of having you chat with them so they can lure you to some questionable web sites. Ignore those users as soon as you spot them, this will allow you to enjoy your chat session much more than you ever had. In Yahoo chat ignoring other users is very easy all you have to do is right click on that user ID and hit ignore.

Enable audio. You can hear if there are interesting conversations going on and you can use your microphone to chime in. some users choose to play songs in the audio chat. If your taste in music is very different from theirs you might consider ignoring them. Voice chat inside Yahoo chat rooms can be a lot of fun if you are lucky enough to find the right people on there at the right time.

Use your web cam. If you really hit if off with someone you can decide to take it out of the room by sending each other private messages and having a fun video chat session. You can know approximately how many people have enabled their video cam in a chat room, their user icon shows up inside what looks like an old fashion television set with the antennas on top.

Don't give up if the first room you try is full and you can't get in or if nobody is talking. Simply try another Philippines room, you are lucky enough that there are at least a dozen free Philippines chat rooms to choose from.

The fine print

Yahoo Chat rooms are only available for users 18 and over only. If you are under 18 you will not have access to Yahoo chat rooms. Localized versions of Yahoo messenger do not always support Yahoo chat rooms. The US version of Yahoo messenger has chat room support, if you want to be sure to access them you might want to use the US version of messenger instead of your country's version. I recommend using a secondary ID when you enter chat rooms. You don't necessarily need to have another Yahoo account you can simply create another ID for the same account and use that when you chat. Be smart, be safe and have fun chatting. Expect to find a lot of people who are no Filipinos in the Philippines chat rooms in fact many of them will have nothing to do with Philippines at all but it is a good place to start. If you want to have a chat in Tagalog you might want to check the Tagalog chat rooms as well, you will find them in the Cultures and Communities category.

Free local and international phone calls with Skype

2011-08-12T15:34:00.000-07:00

Call your friends and family at home and around the world for free for 30 days using Skype.

You can make calls to landlines and mobile phones in United States, Canada, China, Guam, Hong Kong S.A.R. China, Puerto Rico, Singapore, and Thailand.

You can also call landlines for free in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg only), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and United Kingdom.

This offer is worth about $14 for one month of unlimited calls ( more precisely €9.99 / £7.99 / $13.99 (€11.49/£9.19/$16.09 incl. VAT).

There are no restrictions on the number of call, the length of each call or the time you place the calls. You can call anytime and any day and talk as long as you want.

This offer is a free trial and you are not committing to any subscription after the trial expire. You are free not to continue using premium calling services on Skype but if you enjoyed the service you are also free to subscribe and keep calling your world at the lowest rates.

You can use Skype on your Android powered phone by downloading the free Skype for Android application.

This offer excludes special, premium and non-geographic numbers.

Claim your free month of calls by signing into your Skype account.

Some of the fine print
Trial must be redeemed by September 8, 2011. To qualify for the offer, you must provide valid payment details. After the first month, your subscription will automatically continue and payments will be taken monthly unless you cancel within 27 days of the start date. Only one free Unlimited World subscription can be claimed per customer. Offer available to the recipient of this email only by clicking on the links within this email.

BlackBerry Chat - BBM

2011-05-10T22:56:00.000-07:00

En Español

The BlackBerry messenger services are one of the most innovative chatting platforms with unique and exciting features. Blackberry messenger enables you to send and receive messages, photos and all sorts of files to your contacts on which you can also receive and send comments. Furthermore, you also have the option to exchange voice messages with your friends using the BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging application also called BBM.

Like all the other major chatting applications such as Facebook chat, Blackberry messenger also allows you to have contacts which can be sub-dived into different categories and groups. If your BlackBerry device has a camera then you can even send the pictures you take with that camera to your friends and also keep them stored in your blackberry device. For all these reasons and more the blackberry messenger app is very popular among users as it has become very easy for them to communicate and share short instant messages. Nevertheless there is lot more you can do with the blackberry messenger.

One feature that is extremely useful and very popular among users is the ability to chat with a group of people at once. The group facility is awesome and you can create as many groups as you wish and share information meant for that particular group. For instance, you can create a group which comprises of family members only and you can name the group as family, likewise you can create groups having only friends or colleagues from your workplace. You can send information meant only for a particular group for example you can send an old family photograph which you recently found in your basement to all your family members or you can send a school photograph to your old classmates and discuss how everyone has changed since then and what you have been up to since the last time you all saw each other.

You can also fix office appointments with your colleagues and discuss and share office presentations and other important meetings or business reviews. These are some of the amazing feature available on the blackberry messenger services which one should try. Another great feature of the blackberry messenger is that you do not have to sign in or sign out of the messenger like you have to do in many other services. You can stay connected as long as you are connected to your wireless network which would show all your messenger contacts who will be aware of your online status. In order to use and enjoy uninterrupted blackberry messenger services you must have the wireless service plan which is offered by your mobile service provider. The type of plans is very crucial for your messenger to function properly otherwise there can be lots of unavailable features.

Since it is operated from a mobile device, chances are that you may loose all your messenger details if your phone software is corrupted or your phone gets stolen. Apart from losing all the data you may also have to rearrange all the contacts into categories and groups which is a tedious work. Fortunately blackberry messenger services provides its users with an option of keeping the back ups of your messenger details. If your phone’s software gets corrupted or stolen then you can be assured that your messenger details are intact and you can restore them in their integrality back to the point where they were last stored. You can maintain and keep your back ups on your computer.

For those of you wanting to be discreet by not allowing notifications from messenger interrupt you in a meeting or while you are busy with other people or performing some task that requires all of your attention the designers of the BlackBerry instant message application have thought of that. This inconvenience can be avoided by making small changes in the message notification settings. You can set the message notification sound to mute and put the vibrating mode on or in case you are not busy you can set the notification tone to a tune or ringtone informing you that you have a new message. The blackberry messenger new message settings specify how you are notified of any new incoming message. You can set different notification tones for different groups which allows you to know right away and without having to look, from which group the message is coming from just by listening to the notification’s sound.

One of the major disadvantages of the blackberry messenger services is that it is accessible to only those people who have blackberry device and thus it limits its growth potential. However, there are rumors that RIM might open its BBM to other platforms such as iPhone’s iOS or Android. Its competitors like Facebook chat or Gtalk do not have this limitation and thus have a slight edge over the BBM among the smartphone users.

If you are a BlackBerry owner and you want to chat not only with your BBM friends but also with people who own other smartphones or even with people who are online on their computer a great alternative might be using the Facebook application which allows you to post your updates, read your friends’ news feeds but also chat with your Facebook friends who are online on chat. If you want to chat with even more people you can use the AIM chat application for BlackBerry which provides the ability to chat not only with AIM contacts but also with you Facebook friends and contacts from other instant messaging services and social networks.

ShufflePeople on Woome - Video Chat

2011-05-05T23:02:00.000-07:00

Woome's ShufflePeople is one of the new online video chatting services with an increasing popularity. ShufflePeople is a random video chatting service that was added to the many services that Woome offers. Think of ShufflePeople as another version of Chatroulette. But there is more to Woome than just ShufflePeople. The first part of this post is bout Woome and then I share my experience using ShufflePeople I have added screenshots of all the people I chatted with and some of those who skipped me.

One of many Shuffled People - continue reading to see more people.

Woome is one of the most fascinating video chatting applications available today on the internet. It provides an amazing way to communicate with thousands of people all around the world, live on webcam.

One of the best things about Woome is that you don't have to fill out a lengthy profile page in order to use the service. At the same time, if you are looking for more connectivity ShufflePeople provides social features such as Facebook Connect which means you can meet a random stranger and after you strike a connection move on to add that person to your social network and easily keep in touch with him or her. Who knows maybe this first random meeting is the start of a long friendship.

The services offered by Woome are very simple and easy to understand. Users are not asked to provide a lot of personal information. The only pre-requisite is to have a unique username through which you can log into the system and can communicate with any of the online members in their video chat community. After you have logged in and understood the basic functions the next step is to make friends and chat with them using your webcam. One of the easiest way to meet new people who are currently online is to join public chat sessions. In public chat sessions you can meet at least three online members in three minutes and have a video chat using your microphone and webcam.

Due to its ease of use new Woome members get used to it very quickly and make friends easily. The site also provides the facility of private chat between two members. Any two people can video chat with each other by using the Woome browser voice and chat platform. Any member can use this service directly in his or her browser without downloading any single external software.

All these great features are available to any member who registers with Woome. Besides these features Woome has lot of other things to offer but they are available only to VIP members of Woome services. A VIP member will have the ability to check who has viewed his/her profile and is placed in priority when a user searches for people to chat who are currently online. These VIP members also have the ability to read an unlimited number of messages which is not the case for free members. Other unique and amazing feature provide by Woome to its VIP members is that they can publish their video streams on Woome TV which is viewed by many members and as such they can be watched by millions of people currently online. By publishing your content on Woome TV you have a great chance of finding a date as you can list your profile and your activities publicly to a large number of people and one of them might be the person you are looking for. Woome TV also features user-created content on causes, news or general events. These can be great conversation starters by encouraging members of the community to contribute their own opinion on the subject being discussed.

There are lots of people including celebrities who find Woome to be an effective way to communicate and connect with fans worldwide. They can just put their messages on Woome TV and fans all across the world can watch on their computer. Using Woome's video chatting platform, celebrities can connect with their fans in a much more personal manner. Fans can talk to their role models face to face and express their admiration towards them. Text chatting lacks soul but video and voice chatting bring in the compassion and a personal touch. This service however is not only restricted to celebrities, politicians are also using Woome TV and video chatting platform to connect with their audiences.

As you can imagine there are a number of issues with Woome. Many people use video chatting is used for offensive activities that most people would rather not be exposed to. You need to be aware of this fact before you decide to take the plunge and try Woome or ShufflePeople for the brave among you.

Important things you need to know about ShufflePeople

You must be 18 or older to use ShufflePeople, before you can begin to chat you will be asked to confirm your age and enter your email address. Your email is used to keep some sort of record of you, I'm guessing if someone reports you they might use it to send you a warning message, however this process does not create an account on the site for you.

My first experience with ShufflePeople

The last time I tried using ShufflePeople there were over 4000 other users online at the same time. I did not turn my camera on and I was hoping to find someone who would still want to chat with me without seeing me but it just wasn't happening. The site just kept Shuffliing people at a really scary rate, some of them also had their web cam turned off in which case I still tried to start a conversation. In the end not a single person replied to me. Granted I only tried text chat, it seems everybody is looking for cam2cam chat or at least voice chat. An interesting fact is that even when your own video camera is not on you can still see the strangers you are being paired with. And I can tell you that every single one of the people I saw were male hopefully only one was inappropriately broadcasting the others however for the most part seemed like normal guys I wouldn't mind starting a conversation with. If only I wasn't camera shy!

The initial process of finding you that first person might take some time but once it has started it will keep going on really fast as it has to keep up with the rate at which your strangers are hitting the Next button on you.

My second experience using ShufflePeople

One of the things I did was turn my webcam one hoping that it would give me a chance to chat with someone. Surely enough it work but the image I was sending out was apparently not clear at all and most people just gave up on me. I still managed to chat with a guy from the UK. I then decided to go without my camera again and be persistent and I did end up finding another camera-less person who chatted with me for a while and one with a cam with whom I had a good conversation going until I inadvertently hit the back button and lost him.

The people I saw on ShufflePeople

I had this crazy idea of making this post even longer by adding the pictures of the people I saw while on ShufflePeople. If you see yourself here and would like me to remove you please let me know, in the comments or by sending me an email. For everybody else this will simply give you an idea of who you can find on ShufflePeople.

In the end I got the following message from the site,

seems like you're misbehaving on ShufflePeople!

Then I was booted in a way, as it kicked me out of the video chat shuffling.

Of all these people can you guess: The 4 people I actually chatted with? The 1 guy who told me he's married? The 1 kid who said he just turned 18 and what he wanted me to show him? The 1 guy who said he was staying in a hotel room in the UK?

On second thought maybe I was misbehavin' after all...

Meebo IM and Chat Rooms

2011-05-03T23:31:00.000-07:00

With the growth of the Internet and social networking websites and instant messaging services it is becoming increasingly difficult to log in to different websites in order to chat and share content with family or friends who are members in different instant messaging networks. It can be sometimes tedious and difficult to make accounts in different instant messaging networks and also to remember their passwords. It is also sometimes frustrating to keep logging to each one of them to check whether any of your friends is online or not. This problem has now been solved with the advent of Meebo.

Meebo is an application that enables users to bring all his chat friends from different networks like WindowsLive/MSN , Yahoo, AOL/AIM, MySpace, Facebook, Google Talk, Twitter into a single platform. Think of Meebo as an all-in-one messenger. You do not have to download any software in order to use the services of Meebo as you can have direct access from the website and use the service over the web. Meebo is still very new as compared to its competitors which have developed their user base over a longer period of time. But Meebo has in its relatively short lifetime and thanks to its innovative features, gathered a significant number of faithful users.

There is also a widget provided by Meebo which needs to be downloaded, it only requires flash in order to work properly. Flash is easily available on the internet and is free to download. If you watch videos on the web you most certainly already have flash. The Meebo widget is known as Meebo Me and allows users to contact each other by just signing on one single website rather than multiple sign in different networks. Meebo also allows its users to send messages to their offline friends. This is very useful tool as one can convey an important message to its members even if he or she is not online at that moment. The message will be there for the member for 12 hours and after that it will expire and get deleted. Any member who logs into the system within 12 hours can check the message and reply accordingly. Meebo also provides a notification service. People just log into their Meebo account and then surf or do their work without worrying about any message getting missed. When a message arrives a sound is played for the user to catch his/her attention. Additionally, any member in Meebo can create a chat room to discuss their interests with other like minded people.

Meebo chat is completely free and has overtime gained huge popularity especially among younger users who are more open to trying new gadgets and applications. Meebo provides chatters with lots of other features besides integrating with other networks. In addition to private chat Meebo also offers a number of chat rooms where a you can enter and make friends and start a discuss with anyone present. Another great feature is the Meebo Bar which can be installed and use d to easily share content with friends among other things. The free chat rooms are one of the features that set Meebo apart from most chat services available online. Users can create their own chat rooms and set the access level at either public or private depending on whom they want to let into their rooms, the level of moderation for the rooms can be set as well.

Meebo also allows mobile phone users to connect with their friends while they're on the go. There are lots of instant messaging networks which are not compatible with a particular mobile phone device and hence the user is unable to use that instant messenger through his or her phone. And most importantly while you're out an about you don’t have the time to log in to every single chat client or social network to reach out to all of your friends; you can do that in one place by using Meebo. Meebo works on the iPhone and on smartphones that run Android as well. Some people say that the Meebo has just begun. Meebo is mostly popular in the United States however it's gaining a growing number of users in South America, Europe and East Asia.

Meebo will soon innovate and come over with lots of many other features like voice and video calling. The Meebo team is working hard to make its users more comfortable and better equipped with all the features expected from a mainstream chat service.

Chat-Related Websites: Ebuddy, 6rounds, Tokbox, Meebo, Irc-Galleria, Tinychat, Banglacafe

Facetime Mobile Video Chat

2011-05-03T06:52:00.000-07:00

Facetime is one of the most fascinating applications developed by Apple as of now. Introduced with the iPhone 4, this feature will change the way the world uses a mobile phone and do video calling. Facetime can be used on the iPad 2, the iPhone, the iPod Touch and Apple computers with the MAC operating system. Facetime allows you not only to talk with the other people but to see them as well. Video calling is not a new concept but voice and video quality of Apple does make it a wonderful experience.

Apple had earlier introduced their phones which supported 3G technology but was not a major hit as there was nothing new to offer in terms of design and the functions of the phone. Whereas it competitors like HTC had developed phones which were far more compatible with the 3G technology. In order to stay ahead Apple came out with iPhone 4 which includes not one but two camera, in the front and back of the phone. Along with the latest iPhone (and iPod touch) came the Facetime application which enabled video calling for its users.

People living far away from their loved ones can use this feature to talk and stay in touch with them. With Facetime you can keep in touch with your family not only through voice but through video calls and see their faces, smiles and their facial expressions which are priceless. There are so many families in which some or the other family member lives far away because of his career and their family members hardly get to see them. This all will become history with Facetime video calling technology that works on the phone without the need for a computer at all. Of course we are all familiar with services such as Skype that offer videoconferencing but typically we use them on our computers and when we use such programs on our phones we only make voice calls with them.

Video calling is one of the most innovative and interesting development we’ve seen in the smart phone market. Apple came up with Facetime for its iPhone, iPad and iPods while at the same time making its source available for others in order to increase its reach. Allowing video calling on one of the most popular smartphone devices in the world, Facetime is bound to become extremely popular.

With Facetime you can actually see what your friends are doing or wearing when you are talking to them. You can ask your friend for an opinion about a particular dress or any outfit you want to buy. You can also show different places you are visiting to your friends during your travels, like the pyramid of Giza or the leaning tower of Pisa, all with a simple click of a button.

The quality of the video call is so clear that you do not feel that you are a distance apart. Facetime has a very intuitive interface. All you need to do to get started is send a request to a friend to add you and if the request is accepted you can start a video call and see each other’s face and expressions while talking.

The cameras on the iPhone, iPod and even the iPad are of good quality, considering they are on mobile handheld devices. They can be found at the front as well as at the rear side of these devices making them quite useful not only to snap pictures on the go but also to film yourself while you are live chatting. The five megapixel camera is capable of video recording in high definition and supported by a LED flash.

The other great feature of the Facetime is that you can send the picture from any camera and not just your device camera making it possible to cover any important event like Christmas parties where you can celebrate it with your loved ones and sending picture to a family member who is far away, busy on an official assignments. You simply need to use iTunes to upload your photos from your computer to your device and then send that picture using Facetime.

There are so many moments in your lifetime that you wish you could share with someone who is not there with you. Facetime makes it easy and fun for you to do so. You can virtually bring the person to that place and share the moments together.

Another great feature of this service is that the developers of this application stated that it will be an open source application which will enable other mobile and cell phones makers to make their devices compatible with Facetime for better video and voice quality between people who own different types of mobile devices.

One of the major drawbacks of Facetime is that it requires faster Wi-Fi services otherwise the application will not work properly. Indeed if your Wi-Fi signal is weak or if the internet connection itself is not fast enough you will not only have a low video quality but you voice will not transmit well either. In order to realize its complete potential Apple will have to make it available on 3G or 4G connections. The company is planning to launch these services on 3G services in the near future.

Facetime is a new application and overtime it will be used by lots of people. Video calling has reduced the distance between people who live apart just like planes did when they were first invented. These technologies bring families closer as they can now talk to their loved ones from faraway places from virtually anywhere. Facetime is a recent addition to the large number of applications out there that allow people to chat with each other on camera for free.

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Free Online Dating and Chat in the US

2011-04-26T21:18:00.000-07:00

This one is going to be unusually short but sweet.

If you are in the US and looking to chat and/or find a date for free you should definitely join Lavalife! Why? Because right now Lavalife is 100% free for members who live in the United States of America.

This is not a promotional or trial offer, Lavalife is and will remain totally free for you if you are in the US. You can enjoy all the features of the site without having to pay anything. You know what they say, love doesn't cost a thing and now with Lavalife neither does finding a date online.

Unfortunately for my readers who are not in the US you still need to pay a fee to be able to use premium features such as messaging or phone chat. However, the site is fairly priced and the member database extremely vast therefore the cost of a premium membership should still be worth it if you are seriously considering online dating.

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Facebook Chat

2011-04-26T00:21:00.000-07:00

Facebook is one of the best social networking sites available on the Internet. Facebook has helped a lot of old friends reunite and has also facilitated many reunion parties. You wouldn’t believe the number of dates and marriages that happened with the help of Facebook. Not only is the site very popular, it is used on a daily basis by millions of people around the world it even surpassed Google as the most visited site of the web.

Facebook users engage in many activities such as social updates, gossiping, playing games and even marketing for companies and advertisers to connect with their customers. One of the most useful features of Facebook is the Facebook chatting facility.

One of the best features of the Facebook chat system is that it allows you to chat with your friends without installing any software. There is no need of any kind of installation which a pre-requisite of some of the other major chatting clients. The tradeoff in this case is a limited set of features. For instance, Facebook chat does not allow you to have voice or video chat you are limited to simple, straightforward text-only chat sessions which is enough for most users but for those who want more they will have to look elsewhere. Nevertheless Facebook chat is very flexible and it allows you a great level of privacy. You can choose to appear offline completely and not let anyone know that you are online or you can choose to appear offline to only a group of your friends by adding them to a list and choosing to appear offline to that list only or to a few lists. Furthermore you can chat with a many people at once by using the group chat feature which allows you to chat with all the members of a group who are online at the same time, like a private chat room or a conference chat.

Facebook therefore is one of the best sites to chat for free online. To get started you need to first create your profiles on Facebook and add your friends who are already on the site and invite the others who are not there yet to join. Once you have your profile just go online on the chat and see which one of your friends are also online. Keep in mind that when you go online on Facebook Chat you are shown online to everybody on your list by default. Whenever you log into your Facebook account you are automatically logged into Facebook chatting also unless you change the settings.

In order to chat in a Facebook you don’t have to sign in anywhere else neither you have to go to a particular page, it is there at the bottom of your screen at the right side. You will see a green light showing that you are online and the number of your friends who are currently online which are mentioned inside the curly brackets.

For chatting you just have to click on that box and then a list will pop up showing a list of your online friends. Friends who are online and currently active are shown with a green light and others who are logged in and not doing anything are shown idle. You will come to know that a friend is idle or not by a half moon like icon instead of the green light beside their names. Facebook makes a popping noise when there is a new message and thus you can do your other work without concentrating on the chat window waiting for a response.

You can either have a private chat with one of your friends or you can have a group chat where you can have discussion on any topic or discuss things in general.

Private chats are only for two people and no one else can know anything about that chat it only between two people.

Facebook also provides the facility of chatting in groups. You can chat with more than one person in a single window and everyone in the group can read and type messages and be part of that discussion. When a new member logs in and enters the chat room, it is visible to everyone in the group and they can all welcome their new guest. There is also a facility for offline members as they can also view the entire chat when they log in.

There have been lots of incidents where one needs to recall certain things which were discussed in chat rooms but was not able to do it due to the lack of chat history feature which records the entire discussion. Facebook has also now recently provided that features too, where all the chat sessions are saved and can be accessed anytime. This is one of the latest features developed by Facebook for its users.

You can also access Facebook chat through your mobile phone. You just have to install certain applications which are available smartphones including Blackberry phones. Facebook chat works as well on these devices as it does on a computer. Did you know that you can also Use Facebook Pics As Caller ID?

It is convenient to have it all in one place as you can read the wall and check out photos and at the same time chat with your friend without moving to any other chatting software.

Facebook chat has become very popular within a very short span of time and even though it entered a market which at the time was predominantly dominated by the giants like MySpace, Google, Yahoo, and Skype etc. Facebook’s user friendliness and wide user base helped make its chat popular in a short amount of time even though the features of the chat itself are rather simplistic and limited.

Facebook has a large international user base in spite of being blocked intermittently or permanently in a number of countries. There is hardly anyone in the world that has been on the Internet and has not heard of Facebook. The Chatting facility was added to Facebook about four years after the site was launched. Since then Facebookers didn’t need to log into some other application to chat with their friends as long as they are also logged into Facebook chat and online at the same time. When other users are not online on Facebook you can always send them a regular message. Having all your family and friends at one place is very convenient.

Overall, Facebook chat is simple to use and operate and anyone can use this application without any hassles. Most of the features are user friendly and self explanatory.

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2011 Valentine's Day Specials - For Singles

2011-02-11T23:18:00.000-08:00

Are you single? Looking to meet someone special? You need to know that February is probably the best month to join an online dating site. The reason for this is the fact that most dating sites run great promotions around that time to celebrate Valentine's day. Yes, Valentine's day can be a good thing for singles.

Today I would like to tell you about four offers from:

1- A special offer for US, Canada and Australia singles. It's free love February at Lavalife. What it means is if you join Lavalife today you automatically get 30 days of free unlimited access to the site. All the paid features are now free for all new registered members who register by Febrary 28, 2011. In other words you will not need to pay anything for a whole month and you don't even need a credit card.

So stop daydreaming about your perfect match and enjoy all that lavalife has to offer for Free! There are 10000 new members who join the site each month, you will be in good company. Click here to join Lavalife.

2- Would like to date a Colombian woman? Join Amolatina and enjoy non-stop chat-a-thon on February 12 and 13. Amolationa is an international dating site which connects thousands of beautiful single Latin women from all over Latin American with single men from North America and Europe who are looking for romance and marriage. Click here to join Amolationa.

3- Are you looking to settle down with a lady from Russia? Then Join AnastasiaWeb and enjoy the Valentine chat-a-thon. AnastasiaWeb is a letter-based international dating site where Russian and Ukrainien women can connect with men for romance and marriage. Anastasia International has been offering its services for 18 years now. Click here to join AnastasiaWeb.

4- Finally, even if you're single there are people in you life that you love and who love you, your family and friends. Send them a personalized Valentine's day card and tell them once more how much you love them.
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Each year when Valentine's day is near articles are published where the author explains how to enjoy being single. I know many of you reading this are single and looking that's why I thought about putting together this special piece to let you know that February is a good time to get the most out of dating sites, especially paid dating sites. I know that many of you prefer free dating sites and that's great but since these sites are free all year long there is no difference in joining them now or in a few months.

Paid dating sites are another story. Most of them do have promotions in February which makes them more attractive to people who usually only use free dating sites. Many offer from 7 days to a full month free trials where you can not only join and create your profile for free but also use all the features, including, messaging and voice chat. The only negative aspect of these promotions is that they don't last so if you have not done so go to this dating site you wish you could afford and see if it is having a special promotion for valentine's day, chances are it is!

Download Skype

2011-01-28T00:03:00.000-08:00

I have tried quite a few video chat clients, MSN, Yahoo, AIM chat etc. By far the best for voice and video quality is Skype.

If you like to have cam chats and voice chats, you should definitely try Skype.

List of the laste Skype features:

Free Video Calling
Free Skype Calls
Screen Sharing
Instant Messaging
Conference calls
Voicemail
Send Files
Facebook News Feed
Caller ID
SMS
Oniline Numbers
Call Transfer
Skype wifi Access

If so far you've only been using Yahoo you will be pleasantly surprise to see how much better your experience is using Skype. Download Skype , install it and try it out right now.

Now that you have Skype on your computer and that you have created your skype name and signed into skype it's time to add friends and start chatting.

It's very easy to search for people on Skype. In the top menu go in Contacts>Search for Skype Users

You can search for people by name, for example if you want to see if your friends and family are already on Skype or if you want to add random people(!) you can search by country, State, City, Language, Gender and Age Range.

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If you need to make frequent international calls to landlines and mobile phones you can Buy Skype Credit now to make cheap calls internationallyfor less than 2c per minute.

If you are a business owner and make frequent conference calls with collegues and partners Skype is a great cost effective solution. Likewise if you're an individual who wants to use all the premium features of Skype you can try the Business version.

Skype is very intuitive so I don't really need to give you any instructions really but if you run into any trouble or if you're stuck at some point please feel free to send me an email or IM or leave a comment below and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Skype is one of the least annoying chat clients you'll ever use and that's one of the reasons I like it so much.

End of Year Survey. First respondent gets $5

2010-12-27T17:01:00.000-08:00

Update:Thank you to all those who took the time to fill out the survey. Congratulations to Bob Engleman who was the first to complete the survey, and win the $5.

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Omegle/Chatroulette video chat

2010-07-23T21:42:00.000-07:00

In the world of free chat sites two sites Omegle.com and Chatroulette.com, both less than two years old are allowing people of all ages from all over the world to meet online and talk.

How to use Omegle? It's very simple to use as it works right inside your browser, you will not need to download any software.

1- Go to the web site Omeble.com
2- Click on either the Text or Video button and your chat session will open

Omegle will search for a Stranger to pair you with so you can start chatting. The rest is up to you.

Omegle was launched in March 2009 (according to Wikipedia). It originally allowed two people paired randomly to have a text chat conversation. Think of it as an instant messaging tool where the other people you are having one-on-one conversations with are strangers you have never met instead of being friends that you know.

When you start using Omegle you are labeled as "You" and the person you are chatting with is labeled as "Stranger".

Omegle claims to provide an anonymous chatting experience but do not take their word for it. You are not anonymous, with enough effort the Stranger you are talking to could find out who you are so don't do anything stupid on those chats and do not reveal personal information unless you do not mind Strangers knowing your true identity.

Recently Omegle has introduced Video chat which makes it more similar to Chatroulette which I will describe shortly.

If you have an iPhone you can download the Omegle iPhone App for the App Store and chat using Omegle on your iPhone.

When you are in text chat you can choose to switch to video chat. At the end of your session you can choose to share your chat log on Facebook or download it to your computer.

At anytime you may choose to disconnect from the conversation. Omegle will ask you to confirm saying "Really" click if you really want to disconnect and find another stranger to chat with.

Just like Omegle, Chatroulette requires no registration and no download. It does not have age restrictions either. Technically you could meet babies on this site but I hope nobody is putting their baby on there.

To use Chatroulette simply go on chatroulette.com. It will activate your web cam. Your flash player will prompt you to allow access to your camera and microphone. Chatroulette is first and foremost a video chat site, however it does link to a dating site as well.

If you have any video chat experience you know what most chatters broadcast and that's the downside of Chatroulette, there are lots and lots of men/boys showing/touching their private parts on there and since you are paired with a stranger randomly chances are you will come across one of those as you wander from stranger to stranger.

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Miley Cirus Live chat July 5

2009-07-05T18:19:00.000-07:00

Did you know that Miley Cirus held an online live chat today? Yes it's was a chance for her fans to chat live with here in the Hannah chat. Miley Cirus is the star of the popular Disney show Hannah Montana and also the star of the Hannah Montana movie. She's currently working on a new movie probably due next year. She's established herself not only as a TV star but also a singer with international succes. Teen from all over the world are fans of Miley who has recently put a lot of effort into seperating herself from her TV character.
The live chat was hosted on hannahchat.com

Before the chat fans had to submit their questions and get as many votes as possible in order for the questions with the most votes to be selected for the live chat that was held at 7PM EST. The questions were answered by Miely hersefl. The chat was held as a prelude to the release of Miley's new album Hannah Montana 3 Soundtrack. Facebook and twitter were used as means to publish questions and get votes.

Fans did not get a whole lot of time to think of their answers, post them and have them voted but those who always wanted to ask Miley questions probably didn't need more time to get to work and have their network of online friends push their questions to the top.

Free dating site and Chat rooms

2009-03-11T13:25:00.000-07:00

Metrodate is experimenting some issues, I have updated the links to lead to another dating site, I will switch them back when the issues are fixed.

Metrodate is a free online dating site with free chat rooms. You can see a preview of those chat rooms below. You may click the image to go to Metrodate.com and register to have access to the chat rooms.

What are you waiting for? Join metrodate right now and start chatting.

The chat rooms don't require any software to be installed on your computer and you will never be asked for your credit card because everything on the site is 100% free.

The choices include, Adult Chat room, Asian Chat Room, Charla en Español, Christian Chat rooms and Main chat Room. You can also see for each room how many users are currently inside the room.

You can use the Instant Messaging feature to contact any member that is currently online. Remember once you're inside a room you can choose to have a private conversation with anyone inside that rooms.

If you're still reading this and have not yet headed to Metrodate to create your profile you need to know that the registration process on the site will take you a few minutes. Indeed you need to go through eight steps before you become an active and registered Metrodate member. I suppose the reason why the registration process is long is because they only want members who are serious about joining the site as they are more likely to come back and stay active on the site.

Here are the steps you will need to go through to register yourself process and set up your profile. You might want to open the metrodate registration page in another window and go through the registration by following this guide.

Step one:
From the homepage enter a valid email address (it's mandatory but don't worry it will not be revealed to other members if you're still afraid to give your good email ID, create another email account and use it to register for metrodate this way you wont need to worry about giving out your good email address). Choose a password and press the Continue button.

Step two:
From the full 2nd registration page, enter your chosen ID or simply accept the one they came up with for you (not a good idea, it could be something like SingleLadyInLasVegas36 and you don't want that I hope...). Entering your first name and last name is optional. Enter your location, country, zip code or postal code then press the Continue button.

Step three:
You are asked for feedback on how you found out about the site choose all the options that apply and press the Continue button.

Step four:
You are asked about your gender, sexual orientation, birthdate, education, height, body type, eye and hair color etc.. basic online dating information. Hint: it's a good idea to enter your actual info since you are not forced to give out your real name it's good for others who contact you to have an idea of what you look like even if they don't see you on cam or in a pic.

Step five:
You need to provide information about the people you'd like to meet on the site. Check and uncheck anything you like or dislike.

Step six:
You can write a short intro message. Like "Single asian chick ready to mingle!" or more simply "Laid back guy for c2c with girls only!" or even more simply "Just looking around", you get the idea. Then you can enter other additional information about yourself. Like languages you speak, turn-offs, favorites (restaurants, movies, hangouts,books,TV shows, pets etc...) You don't have to fill out all this just the ones that you think really matter.

Step seven:
Add your photos. You can either upload one from your computer. Send one in an email or from your cell phone or even from postal mail, it's your choice. Or, you can click continue without adding a photo! The site allows Adult content in photos, no need to censor yourself as long as what you're showing is legal.

Step eight:
Add metrodate to your address book to ensure that you will not miss any email alerts they might send you. Of course you don't have to do this now. Simply click Continue.

Congratulations! You're in and ready to chat like crazy or like there's no tomorrow. You will be shown your account page with the number of messages and notifications that you've received. Indeed, if matches are found in your area (city) you will see the number in the upper right side of your screen under "Notifications". If you're in the mood to find an online date, click on that link and browse all your matches see if anyone catches you attention.

I had 82 matches can you believe this? Now you understand why you need to enter correct information? If you did not enter your zip or postal code correctly those matches will simply not be located near you.

If you simply want to chat, click on the Chat link in the top section of any page on the site and then choose your desired room.

One important detail you need to know is that if you want to enter the chat rooms you MUST have at least one photo. I know this because I tried to enter the chat rooms and was told I need to add a photo to my profile which I finally did. By the way my metrodate ID is girl123. You can search for my profile with my username once you're registered. How about sending me a message while you're at it?

Join Metrodate today. See you there.

Chat with Japanese people

2009-01-26T09:34:00.000-08:00

I know many of you are interested in Japan and even more so chatting with Japanese people. There is one site that you should join where you can find many people from Japan to chat with, that site is Worldfriends.

Worldfriends is one of the most popular sites in Japan to meet people. It's particularly popular among the Japanese people who are learning English and are looking to practice with native English speakers.

If you are interested in learning about Japanese culture, or maybe planning to visit Japan in the near future or even if you are studying Japanese and wish to find a native Japanese person to help you out, Worldfriends is for you.

In order to fully profit from having a profile on Worldfriends you might want to read on as I tell you how you can make the most out of the time you spend on Worldfriends.

First of all, what is WorldFriends?

Worldfriends is a website based in China where people from all across the globe join to find language exchange partners, activity partners, a date or a life partner. It is particularly popular in Japan as you can see when you've joined and started to browse profiles. The web site is also popular in other Asian countries like China, Korea, India etc... Needless to say that many people outside of Asia join as well mainly because they are looking for Japanese friends and/or language partners and/or dates. On Worldfriends you can meet People like Yoko K., shown in the picture, the one millionth member of the site.

If you wish to chat for free on Worldfriends you need, first of all, to join and have your profile approved. Then you should search for profiles of members that you are interested in. You can search by country, age, gender etc... Additionally you need to search for members with Open Club membership. Since all the services on Worldfriends are not free, as a regular member, you may only initiate conversations with members who have an Open Club membership. You will spot them very easily. If they are online, send them an IM, if they aren't, send them and email telling them you would like to chat with them.

In case you're wondering what Open Club membership means, it's simple: it's a paid membership that allows non-paying members to contact Open Club members for free. It's like the person who pays not only pays for him/herself but also for the other people who contact him/her. It also means that an Open Club member wants to be contacted so go ahead and contact him/her if he/she matches your interests.

Another way to find people to chat with for free is to have them on your network. How can you get people on your network? Simply by inviting your friends to join you on Worldfriends and encouraging them to invite their friends. Yes it works pretty much like myspace and facebook. Let's say one of your friends, we'll call her Lucy, is the friend of this really cool guy, we'll call him Jason, that you're interested in, but he's not your friend. You invite Lucy to join your network, Lucy invites Jason. Because Jason is your friend's friend on Worldfriends you can contact him for free. And because you're simply going to chat with him behind your computer, there's no need to be shy.
Another way to chat for free on Worldfriends is to have a well written profile with photos and to stay online on the site as long as possible. How does this work? There is a type of membership called VIP membership which allows members to contact anybody they want. If you are online and a VIP member wants to chat with you he can simply initiate a conversation with you and you can chat with her/him for free. This of course will only work if that VIP member finds your profile interesting and I'm pretty sure it's not going to happen if you didn't take the time to fill out your info and especially if you left your profile without a photo. It's also obvious that you can only chat with other people on WorldFriends if you are logged in so you need to stay online for a while. Certainly, after the initial conversations if you two are interested in each other you can always take the conversation out to your favorite IM program.

For having been on Worldfriends for a while I can tell you that the site is very popular in Asia, and not only in Japan but also in China, Korea etc. Of course it helps that the site is available in different Asian languages. I can also tell you that women are more likely to post photos than men. Guys, you really need to make that extra effort, the gals do need to see you too.

You will notice that generally the profiles include at least one photo of the member. I have a preference for profiles with pictures as it does tell you a little more about the person that he/she may not have conveyed in her profile details.

Even though WorldFriends is a social network it only allows adults to join, you need to be at least 18 to create a profile. They do not ask you for your credit card information to register which means they will never bill you without your knowledge. The only way for them to get your credit card information is if you choose to upgrade your membership but you don't have to unless you really must contact that person who's been sending smiles to you and that you find absolutely irresistible! More seriously, upgrading your membership is not mandatory. But if you can afford it and if you really want to talk to someone who is neither a VIP nor an Open Club member nor in your network, it's the only way.

Join Worldfriends and find out for yourself what it's all about.

Avacs Live chat for mobile and PC

2009-01-26T07:48:00.000-08:00

Avacs Live Chat allows mobile phone and PC users to enjoy free live mobile chat with its 3-level client-to-server system.

With Avacs live chat, you are able to create public rooms that anyone can join to chat with you. You can of course enter the existing rooms according to your interests. Avacs also allows you to create private rooms for conversations with selected people. You can get even more personal by using the IM feature to have one-on-one conversations with specific people outside of the chat rooms.

You may fill out your profile and browse through profiles of other Avacs members. You may add a photo to your profile directly by using your camera phone or if your phone does not have a camera you may add a photo from a file on your computer to the web site.

Like social network Avacs has advance member search, based on all the data available on each profile.

More than just a chat site, Avacs allows you to exchange files, photos, music and ringtones.

If you prefer not to use your photo on the site you may opt for an avatar instead, you'll find a choice of animated smilies and avatars on the site.

Your Avacs account is not tied to your phone. You can use it on different phones, as long as they support Java applications. The requirement for the chat to work on your cell phone is to have Java support (J2ME).

About 300 models of mobiles and smart phones are supported by Avacs, phones by Alcatel, Benq-Siemens, Blackberry, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Nec, Samsung, SonyEricsson etc...

Other handy features are automatic country identification and room filters. Avacs chat has many country specific rooms. If your country has a chat room on Avacs, once you are on the site it will automatically detect your country and open the chat room available for your country. Of course you don't have to stay in there but automatically being sent to a local chat room is a convenient feature if you are looking to chat with people in your area. You 'll also find rooms by communities which allows you to chat with like-minded people.

Avacs also has one of my favorite features when it come to IM, history of personal messages. The archiving of your instant messages allows you to go back to your previous conversations and search for information you might need.

Beside their mobile version, Avacs also has chat rooms for PC computer users. For the chat rooms to work on your PC you need to enable javascript. All popular browsers are supported like Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox 2 and 3, Safari 2+, Mozilla 1+, Opera 9+, Camino 1+ and even the Google Chrome.

Whether you use the mobile or PC version of Avacs there are no age restrictions which means kids, teens and adults are all allowed to use the public chat rooms and private room features.

You do not need to fill out a lengthy profile to enter the web version of avacs chat. All you need to do is choose a nickname and a password and you're in.

Even before you enter a specific room you can view all the rooms available and the messages sent by the users present. This allows you to evaluate the level of activity in any room before making your choice of which room to join.

The Avacs interface is very flexible and allows you to manage your rooms and users with ease. Within a room you can send photos, files and even video links. If you post a link to a Youtube video for example, all the other chatters in the rooms can watch it directly inside the room.

Avacs is an international chat platform. It allows users to chat in their native language whether it's Russian, Arabic, Chinese or Japanese.

When you create your own room on Avacs you get your own personal address that you can send to your friends or simply add to your blog or profile. When your friends clicks on that link he will go directly to the room you've created. Let's say that you create your very own Vancouver chat room, you simply use the link provided to you by Avacs and all the people you send the link to can click on it and join you in the chat room.

If something goes really wrong, you may send messages to the administrator is case you encounter any problems with the chat rooms or the web site.

If you're using the Avacs live chat form your computer, you may upload your own personal set of animated smilies or use the ones uploaded by other avacs live chat users from the top100 list.

You've read what I had to say about Avacs, now it's time for you to experiment it for yourself. If you want to chat with your cell phone click here for the mobile chat, if you want to chat from your computer click here for the web chat.

Free Online Dating

2008-12-31T10:12:00.000-08:00

Mingles.com is a 100% free online dating site.You can join, add photos, send and receive messages, chat, create and participate in groups or forums all for free, without having to use your credit card ever. Mingles is not a site where they let you join for free and then ask you to enter you credit card information, no. Mingles is always free all the time, it's a great place to meet new people and communicate.

Once you're a Mingles member you may join any of their public chat rooms where you can make friends, have fun or flirt. To access the chat rooms you need to click on "Chat & Forums" from the top menu. Chat features on Mingles include video chat and instant messaging.

Next to the chat rooms you'll find the recently active forums which allows you to jump right in a current conversation. The forums are very much appreciated by the members, you might enjoy browsing them at first to see what they others are talking about or you can simply start your own thread.

Creating an account on Mingles is a very simple process. Beside choosing a username, password and of course your email address you also need to enter your country, city, gender and birth date. Like most dating sites, Mingles is for adults only, people under 18 are not allowed on the site.

Every Mingles.com member is given unlimited storage for his/her photos. You can add as many photos of yourself as you want and you can let your friends comment on your photos as well.

To make your profile really stand out Mingles has a video profile feature. From you webcam you can record video clips that are added to your profile, a great way to introduce yourself.

Even before you join Mingles there are many things you can do you the site. You can browse members' photo. It's quite impressive actually. You get to see pictures of all kinds of people who are current members. By placing the mouse cursor on a photo you'll see the person's ID and location.

The groups are one of the most interesting features I've found on Mingles. Users are allowed to create their own groups and as a member you may join groups that are of interest to you. Some of the most popular groups are 'FireFighterMatch', 'Naughty Nice', 'Nice girls seeking nice guys', Vanilla men for chocolate females, Gone Fishing, Myspace friends, Jewish Mingles, BBWSSBBW and their admirers, No strings attached, U2 Fans, Calling all rock music lovers, Black men looking for white women, Guitar Players, Dog People, Tattoo Parlor, Mingles Motorcycle Club, People who don't lie about their stats, The Yoga Studio, Cat People...

Dating sites are among the best places to chat for free, they allow chatting and dating without paying. The reason why chat rooms on dating sites are interesting is because when you chat with other members you can look at their profile on the site as well.

Usually people on dating sites take the time to fill out their profiles and add photos. Unlike chatting sites where most of the time you don't have information on other chatters dating site really allow you to know the people in the room better and to see what they look like even before you start a cam chat.

People register with their country and city this allow for zipcode or postcode dating. Let's say your looking for Chennai college girls for dating, on Mingles you are able to search for girls from Chennai by age. Likewise, for the ladies interested in dating Portuguese men all you need to do is browse male members from Portugal. Because Mingles is free once you've found the person you're interested in you can go ahead and contact him or her.

With internet dating, the first email needs to make the person who reads it hungry for more. After your profile, the first email you write to a person on an online dating is the most important thing. If it's not your profile, the content of that first email might be the reason you don't get a response from one of your matches.

If you're ready to join Mingles,Click this link to register and create your profile

Qeep mobile messenger

2008-12-22T06:39:00.000-08:00

Update: Due to issues with the site I no longer encourage my readers to join Qeep.

If your phone supports Java and you would like to chat with your friends, share photos and play games with them even when you are not in front of the computer, then Qeep is for you.

What is Qeep?
Qeep is a both a global social network and a little piece of free live chat software that you can add to your mobile phone. The Qeep network is one of the leading mobile communities in the world.

Here is how it works:

1- Visit Qeep.net
Download Qeep to your your phone must support , JAVA MIDP 2.0 for you to use it, most mobile phones with a color screen and an integrated camera do. (You may also use Qeep on your computer but we'll talk about that later). Then launch the application to create an account and join the Qeep network, don't worry, it's free.

2-Sign in to Qeep
With your account and start surfing the profiles of Qeepers who live in your area, you may also browse profiles by interest. Send a 'nudge' to the people you're interested in or simply send them a QMS (Qeep message). If your friends are already on Qeep you may simply send them invites to join your Buddy List, or they can invite you, it works both ways.

3-Start Qeeping
After you've sent invites, nudges and QMS you'll have quite a few people on your Qeep buddy list to which you can send QMS. Visit Qeep.net to see a demo of the Qeep messenger in action.

With Qeep you can meet new people and make new friends. One of the most interesting features you'll find is the photo sharing. You can talk and show your photos to your friends without having to send expensive picture messages. Additionally you have unlimited space available on the network to store all our photos, so take as many as you want.

Games are also available on Qeep. As long as you have your cell phone with you, no matter where you are, at home, on the bus, the train, in a waiting room, at the airport, or wherever, you can play games, live, online, with anyone who's online and willing to play with you.

One of the fun features of Qeep is the "Sound Attack". You can 'blast' sounds out on your friends' phones. You send the sound to them and it plays on their phone, how cool is that? Plus you'll find many exclusive sounds available to attack your friends with.

Since Qeep sends messages over your mobile carrier you will pay for QMS that you send. Indeed your mobile service provider will charge you to use any free wireless application; Qeep will never charge you anything. The good news is that QMS can cost as little as 0.1 cents. Even when they cost more they will always be a lot cheaper than regular SMS. So if you constantly send SMS to your friends and you don't have unlimited text/SMS plan you should use Qeep to save money on your cell phone bill. QMS is as easy to use as ordinary SMS, it's simply cooler and far less costly.

Not convinced? Visit Qeep.net and go to the "IT'S FREE?!" page to see how Qeep can save you money and what your phone bill will say at the end of the month.

If you want to see the faces- and bodies -behind Qeep simply visit the "ABOUT US" page on the site, you'll see candid photos of the Qeep team which is based in Germany.

As I said earlier you can also use Qeep on your computer. How? You simply need to go to the "QEEP WEB-VERSION" page and use it as you would on your phone. You also need to have java on your computer to use the Web-version of Qeep. Of course when you're on the web using Qeep does not cost you anything- beside what you're already paying to use the internet ...- On the web you will use a cell phone emulator. You'll be presented with an interface that's exactly like a cell phone and the application has the exact same look that it has on mobile phones. You can register and send QMS and photoblogs on the web for free.

Before you start using Qeep it's a good idea to visit the website and check out the many pages where all the features of the free mobile software are described in details. You will find the latest mobile photoblogs, it's updated regularly. Since you get to see not only the photo that was sent but also the user's ID you can invite or nudge that user if you find his/her photoblog interesting.

Since Qeep's goal is give you a fun way to spend you time and to meet new people, make new friends and connect with old ones you will find many games that you can play live. You can challenge your friends in duels, and try to break the current record. If you like games you'll certainly enjoy the live multiplayer action. When you download the Java mobile application the games are included for free. Plus, new mobile java games are added regularly so you never get bored.

Ever dreamed of taking control of your friend's phone? Well for a few seconds you can with sound attacks. They are sound effects that play on your friends' phone but that are triggered by you from your own phone. They are too fast to be stopped! So have fun and attack your friend while is next to you and unaware of what you’re doing and see her reaction, a guaranteed laugh. Blasting with sound attacks is so much better than simply ringing your friend. You can hear sample Sound Attacks on Qeep's website so go over there and find out what they sound like and which ones you absolutely have to use right away.

For more information on phone requirements, downloading and using Qeep, check out the "Mobile Internet Connection" section of the Qeep website (you'll find the link at the bottom of the page). Be sure to look at the "Frequently Asked Questions" if you are having any problems and for technical support. Happy Qeeping.

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Mesothelioma chat rooms

2008-12-10T11:36:00.000-08:00

Do you have Mesothelioma? Or maybe someone close to you does? You might want to find other people with Mesothelioma to chat with. You might find support and encouragement while you provide the same to individuals and families who know exactly what you are going through.

Yahoo (chat.yahoo.com) has Cancer chat rooms that you can try. If you're looking mostly for people in the US you might want to look at the AOL rooms instead.For both sites you will need to register before you can join the chat.

There are also Mesothelioma message boards where you can post your messages and wait until others response. You can also provide moral support and encoragement to the other members. Yahoo also has Mesothelioma message boards and so does Msn. Those two are very popular sites so you are likely to find most members on their message boards. If you don't quite find you fit with either Yahoo or Msn you might want to try the message boards at healthboads.com.

There are other less active message boards you can join like the medhelp.org boards, the acscsn.org borads. They don't have as many people as the previous ones but you might prefer a smaller group of people.

I hope you find encouragement and support by joining those message boards and chat rooms.

For those who are not familiar with mesothelioma, you may read the following details on this particular form of cancer.

Mesothelioma is a cancer almost always caused by exposure to asbestos. The malignant cells develop in what is called mesothelium, a protective coating that most internal organs ave. Usually, mesothelioma develops in the pleura, but it can also occur in the peritoneum, cardiovascular disease, the pericardium or a jacket vaginalis. In most cases, people who develop mesothelioma have worked in places where they inhaled asbestos particles, others were exposed to dust or asbestos fiber. Indirect exposure like washing the clothes of a person exposed to asbestos may present a risk of developing mesothelioma.

Working with asbestos is the major risk factor for mesothelioma. A genetical predisposition to develop mesothelioma has been discovered but almost all cases are a result of a history of exposure to asbestos . However, mesothelioma has been reported in some persons without any exposure to asbestos. In rare cases, mesothelioma has also resulted from radiation, intrapleural thorium dioxide inhalation and other fibrous silicates, as erionite.

Asbestos are masses of strong fiber that can be separated into thin threads and woven They were widely used in many industrial products, including cement, brake linings of the shingle roof coatings, textiles and isolation. If small particles of asbestos are still in the air, especially during the manufacturing process, can be inhaled and swallowed and can cause serious health problems. In addition to mesothelioma, exposure to asbestos increases the risk of lung cancer, asbestosis and other forms of cancer, as the larynx and kidney.

Mesothelioma symptoms include lack of air caused by a pleural effusion or pain in the chest wall, and weight loss. The diagnosis can be suspected with chest x-ray and C T scan, and is supported by a biopsy. Although the administration of chemotherapy, radiation or surgery, may help, success rates are not very high. More studies are needed to develop screening tests for early detection of mesothelioma.

The combination of smoking and asbestos exposure significantly increases a person's risk of cancers of the respiratory tract. Kent brand of cigarettes used asbestos in the filters during the first year of production in 1950, which caused some cases of mesothelioma. Modern cigarettes do not appear to reduce the risk of mesothelioma from smoking.

Although the incidence has doubled over the past 20 years, mesothelioma is still a relatively rare form of cancer. The incidence is one per every million. The highest incidence is in the United Kingdom, Australia and Belgium. The impact should continue to grow in other parts of the world. Mesothelioma occurs more often in women than men, the risk increases with age, but the disease can occur in men or women of all ages. About one fifth to one third of all mesotheliomas are peritoneal.

Between 1940 and 1979, more than twenty seven million people are exposed to asbestos professional in the United States. In 1973 and 1984, the diagnosis of pleural mesothelioma among white men has tripled.

Iwantu Adult Chat

2008-10-04T11:45:00.000-07:00

Adult chat rooms still exist on the internet and one of the places you'll find them is at Iwantu.

The IwantU.com Chat rooms are a place to find new friends and talk to other members. You'll find a variety of rooms with different themes. When you are on the chat rooms page you'll see the number of members currently present and chatting in both private and public rooms.

On IwantU you'll find both free and VIP rooms and also private webcam personal chat rooms. Free members can only join public rooms and private personal rooms, which is enough if you just want to look around a enjoy a fun and free chat.

Of all the rooms listed, the Lobby .is the most popular, it's a good starting point if you've never chatted on iwantu before, it's followed by the the Red Room. The Lobby is the general chat room, it's usually a starting point for people exploring the chat rooms, like a chat central, that's why it's so popular because most people start there. Some rooms are moderated and some are not. You'll also find Women-only and Men-only rooms. Some of the rooms are moderated and some are not.

A sample of the rooms you'll find:
The lobby
The Bar
Free 4 all
Motel Suite
Red Room

There are both public and private chat rooms on IwantU. You get to see a list of the members who are currently on their webcam and you can join their chatroom by clicking on their handle or webcam photo. You also get to see the total number of members currently chatting in both private and public chat rooms. Of course you can also launch your own live show.

After chatting for free on iwantu you might end up wanting more. Go ahead and upgrade your membership. You'll not only have access to all the chat rooms, you'll also be able to view and send instant messages and view all members on web cam. Additionally you'll get 60 free minutes with IwantU Video-on-Demand. Other features available to VIP members are unlimited profiles view, unlimited messages, higher rank in search results and detailed search options. But it gets better when you become a VIP select. You rank at the top of chat room user lists wish puts all the attention on you. You also get a free desktop alert software and Mobile features. VIP select members also get priority customer support and special contests and promotions. So it's your choice, free membership for fun, VIP for even more fun and VIP select for serious fun.

Still here and not at IwantU creating your profile? Well read on, I'll tell you about the benefits of an IwantU profile and why you should seriously consider one after trying out the site for free.

As a VIP member you get among other privileges, to view and send unlimited instant messages, access all chat rooms, 60 free minutes with IwantU Video-on-Demand, view unlimited profiles, view and send unlimited messages. VIP select members have all the VIP features with additionally, top chat room user lists ranking, special contests and promotions, and a free desktop alert software and mobile features like live webcams and chat rooms.

Remember at IwantU the sign up is free and so are many features. You are not asked for your credit card when you register. After registering you'll find the list of live webcams and chat rooms available for you to watch and join for free. Other features available are free desktop alter software and of course the advanced matching systems that matches you up with the most compatible people on the site. For all the Spanish speakers you'll be glad to know that IwantU is also available in Spanish.

If nothing I've said so far has convinced you to join IwantU, go over there and check it out for yourself and see if it's worth joining.

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Chat for free at Megafriends

2008-09-10T01:00:00.000-07:00

Megafriends is an international site where you can make friends and find a date. The site has over 600000 members hence many possibilities to find friends and meet new people either by searching through member profiles or by participating in free chat rooms.

Not only does Megafriends offer simple text chat but it also supports video/webcam chat, photo galleries, instant messaging and classic forums. If you ever get tired of chatting you might want to spend some time at the message boards. Of course you need to create an account with Megafriends to be able to join their chat rooms. Don't worry registration only takes a couple of minutes. Taking some time to put up an interesting profile will help you get more attention on the site, so go ahead and put up a super-great-irresistible profile, you won't regret it.

One of the things I like about Megafriends is the diversity, they have people from so many countries around the world that the odds of finding people near you are quite high. Of course it's ideal for people looking to make international friends, you have 100% chanceS of finding international friends on Megafriends.

When you're not chatting in the chatrooms there are many activities you can do on Megafriends to keep yourself busy. You can play online games, read articles, take polls. You can also take some time to make your profile more attractive by adding photos, you may add as many as you want, like one for each angle! Megafriends allows unlimited photos in your photo albums. You may also want to add a video intro to make your profile even more interesting. One other activity you will surely enjoy is profile search and browsing. Indeed you can define over 100 different criteria to help narrow down your search to find the people you might be interested in.

Remember you can join and chat on Megafriends with a free membership. As a free member you'll have full access to profiles, you'll be able to search for people, browse and see all their information. You'll also see who's viewed profile.

But as a free member you will have communication restrictions. You will not be able to chat with other free members but you will be able to chat with paid members. You will be able to send messages to any member paid or free but the other member will be able to read your message only if he/she is a paid member. You'll be able to receive messages from all members but you'll only be able to read it if you have a paid membership unless the person who sent the message to you is a paid member. Sounds confusing? What you have to remember is that direct communication is possible if at least 1 member has paid a membership. That's why it's a good idea to go in chat rooms because if you are able to chat with someone there, you'll also be able to send/receive and read messages from that person so they'll be no frustrations afterward. Of course if you want to put all chances on your side go ahead and upgrade your membership it wont brake the bank.

Megafriends specializes in matchmaking services for singles. Each member gets his own personal Message Center in our dating site. You may also send virtual gifts like on Facebook, they allow you to brake the ice when you initiate contact with another member.

Certainly Megafriends is for people at least 18 years of age. Take some time to read their Terms of Use before you register to avoid any bad surprises.

Megafriends wants you to know that "Your Friends Are Here" on Megafriends. So go ahead, Find Friends and Have Fun Chatting.

Chat in 3D with Google Lively

2008-09-09T11:41:00.000-07:00

1/19/2011 Update: The service is now closed.

Tired of ordinary text and webcam chat? Why not try 3D chat with Lively by Google. On Lively you create an avatar to represent yourself and that avatar will chat with other avatars present in the 3D chat rooms. There are ten avatars to choose from, you may customize the clothing and hairstyle. You may create your own chat rooms and visit other chat rooms available. If you do not wish to create your room at first, look around and enter a room with many people to be sure you'll find others to interact with.

To use Lively you need to download a program from Google, you can only use it with Windows, sorry Mac and Linux users. You need a Google account to use Lively, if you don't yet have one, don't worry you'll create it when joining Lively. The chat rooms are 3D rooms where avatars can move around and interact. You might need to take some time to learn to use the tool like a pro, indeed it might not be obvious at first to control your avatar's movement.

Lively also allows you to embed your rooms in your own site or page to allow the people visiting your site to chat with you live using their own Lively avatars in your room. You can choose to make your rooms public or private.

Your Lively room is a virtual 3D place for avatars to hang out. To make your room even more appealing you may choose a variety of objects from a library. Some objects allows you to stream youtube videos and display Picasa images to make your room more animated and attractive. If an avatar is bugging you, you can ignore him/her with the ignore object option almost like in the old-fashioned chat rooms.

When you chat inside a room in Lively, the text is shown in talk bubbles above your avatar. Some phrases will animate your avatar when you type them, like lol makes it laugh out loud literally. All common chat phrases come with animation that you might or might not like. You can hug, kiss or punch other avatars and they can do the same to you.

Google has also made Lively available as Facebook application. If you enjoy 3D environments and are tired of same old text/video chat, Lively might be just right for you.

AIM free Chat Rooms

2008-09-03T01:00:00.000-07:00

If you are in the US or want to chat with Americans you should absolutely try AIM chat rooms at chat.aim.com . They are free and don't require any download. All you have to do is get an AIM handle which you'll use to join the chatrooms. The AIM rooms are Userplane chat rooms, fairly easy to use.

You get to see the list of chat rooms from which you may choose the ones you want to join. Join only those with many users, stay away from those with only a couple of people and even those with less than a dozen people. Chances are they are boring and that's the reason why people don't stay in there. Once you're inside the room, don't be shy and jump in the ongoing conversations. The good thing about those chat rooms is the fact that you can view basic profile information of chatters without leaving the chat window. Indeed if someone has a picture you simply click on the person's ID at the right and you see the picture with basic info on the person.

If a chatter is on cam you do the same click and you can see that person's webcam. Remember that some people are not simply showing their faces on cam! You might not be interested to see their other body parts, therefore you might not want to view all the other people's cams randomly. I've found all the cams that were live freely available for me to view, I can't tell you if there is special setting but most likely you'll be able to see the cams and you'll be able to show yours to other as well.

Did I say that you can IM the people in the rooms as well? I just did. You can have private conversations as well with any other chatter willing to chat with you. So you get it all, text and video chat for free, no download necessary from AIM.

AIM chat is very simple to use, you really don't need to read the instructions to find your way around, everything is pretty straightforward, chances are you've used similar chat rooms before. Certainly, if you've been reading from this site for a while and if you have taken the time to try the chat rooms mentioned here you have seen rooms similar to those offered by AIM.

As I said in the beginning, AIM is very popular among Americans because of America Online, you will find many people online in the USA, in the chat rooms, you'll even find chat rooms for cities like New York and for other areas in the US with many people in those areas chatting with each other. They also have chat rooms for other countries but not all of them are populated. Hopefully, room hopping is painless so you can go ahead and check out as many rooms as possible. AIM chat rooms are nowhere near Yahoo chat rooms in terms of popularity but they are rather clean as far as bots are concerned.

You might want to hurry up and try those rooms now before AOL is sold. I've been reading about plans to sell AOL in part, AIM might end up in the hands of some company that doesn't have any use for it. If Google buys AIM the company might decide to migrate all AIM users to Gtalk and close AIM chat rooms especially now that they have Lively. So go ahead and try AIM chat rooms out now while you can!

A few "technical" notes. I've tried to use AIM chat rooms with Firefox 2 but it did not work, I had to use Internet Explorer instead, I suppose they are not compatible with Firefox.

There are many popular rooms on AIM, you might want to try a few until you find the one that fits you best.

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Free live Webcam/video chat

2008-08-02T12:35:00.000-07:00

IMPORTANT UPDATE: dotv.com has closed! Try these chat rooms instead. All the links leading to dotv.com have been removed.

You enjoy cam to cam conversations and you're looking to meet new people online, with whom you can have those video chats? You should try dotv.com. Dotv is a live webcam community of people who enjoy sharing video and wish to find friends and partners on the internet, for free.

On dotv you'll also find thousands of free videos, you can search and watch the ones that you're interested in. Dotv is also a social network. You may invite other members to join your Friend Network and you can invite your friends, who have not joined the site yet, to join you on dotv and be part of your Friend Network.

Broadcasting your live webcam on dotv is easy, you simply connect the cam, install all required software, click on the Broadcast button and you'll be broadcasting. You may broadcast with or without audio/voice, it's your choice. I think having the voice with the video is better. Additionally you'll be able to see who is watching you and watch other member broadcast as well. While broadcasting you may also IM other users and have simple text chat with them or you can talk with the microphone. If you don't want certain people to view your cam you can block them.

At dotv you not only get to meet people to chat with and make friends but you can also get paid when you broadcast. You could get paid up to $5 per hour simply for turning on your webcam. You can have fun and profit from it at the same time. In fact, on dotv you can choose to become a producer of paid videos, and earn money every time someone views your paid content. Of course you understand that for people to actually want to pay to watch your content you have to be popular on the site, or at least they must know that your broadcasts are interesting and must sees.

Dotv is an international site, if you're in the US you may enter your zip code at registration, if you're outside of the US you may leave this field blank.

Dotv has a rating system were the videos that are viewed the most are rated. Those videos are highlighted on the Videos Page. The rating is done by users who have viewed the videos so you know that the highest rated videos are worth the watch.

Not only is Dotv free to use but you can also make money using it. It's your chance to make some new cam friends and enjoy endless hours of video chat with them.

I recommend behaving properly while you use dotv because you never know who you're chatting with. Even when you see the person's face you don't know who that person is, therefore behave in a proper manner. Don't do anything that you might regret in the future.

Of course you understand that dotv is not for kids, sorry boys and girls, dotv is for adults only, you must be at least 18 years old to join.

Besides the video chat and the social networking dotv also has blogs, you can browse and read blogs written by other members which allows you to get to know a bit about them even before you decide to have a cam chat with them.

I've noticed that there are many latinos and latinas on dotv, while browsing the members. Most members I've found had photos, it made the browsing even more fun. If you're looking for a latino friend, male or female to have a cam chat with, this might just be your chance.

Enough said, turn on your webcam and click on the button to join dotv today.

Chat For Free and Make Friends

2008-07-24T09:36:00.000-07:00

Looking to Chat for free and make friends? Try the free chat rooms at3gb.biz.

3gb.biz is a new social networking site that offers all the usual services you find on social networking sites such as photo albums, groups, messages and all the networking features of course. 3gb.biz also offers live radio, shoutcast and free chat rooms.

On 3gb you'll be able to chat with people from the US, from Asia, North Africa and from many other countries.

The first thing to do after you join 3gb is to add pictures so you can show them to all of your new found friends, the second thing you'll do is invite your old friends to join you on 3gb. You might not realize this but many social networking sites don't offer chat rooms but 3gb does and you certainly wont find shout cast on your average social networking site but 3gb makes it available to you. You can not only listen to what other members are listening to on their computer but you can also broadcast your music to your friends and release your inner DJ.

A chat room on a social networking site such as 3gb is mostly for friendly clean chat knowing that social networking sites are usually open not only to adults but also to teens they don't have special chat rooms for adult discussions. Since 3gb is a new social networking site it does not have the millions of users you'd find on Myspace, Facebook, Orkut, Friendster or hi5, therefore I don't guarantee that when you do try their rooms out that you'll find many people in your area but you might just make an online friend at least. Of all the most popular social networking sites I've mentioned earlier only Myspace has chat rooms, Friendster and hi5 don't have chat features at all while Facebook and Orkut do allow one on one chatting.

The chat rooms at 3gb are mostly for those looking for a friendly chat with random people that they might or might not end up becoming friends with. You should approach these chat lightly and not expect to find a date on your first day there, it's more of a place to make online contacts than anything else. If you do have some time to spare and you're online a bit bored looking for new places to chat that are free and require no credit card to join check out 3gb. If you're a music lover who not only loves listening to music but is also dying to make the world hear your music, 3gb is the social networking for you because you can be a DJ there and broadcast yourself.

3gb is not only a chat spot it's also a place to make friends you might find yourself going back there more often than you think. Remember to keep it clean while you're at 3gb there are kids there also.

Adult Dating Phone Chat

2008-06-25T06:02:00.000-07:00

If you're not so much into web/online conversations but prefer regular phone chat you should try Lavalife.

Lavalife is a popular Personals site that has a special service called Lavalife by Phone that allows you to connect, by telephone with singles in your area. Lavalife by Phone has many interactive features to help you meet new people while keeping you safe and in control, and letting you have fun.

You'll surely find that Lavalife by Phone is easy to use, safe and fun. Join Lavalife today and Get 24 hours FREE.

To start connecting with singles, create your profile on Lavalife, call Lavalife, and then go through three key steps:

Step #1: Get a Voicemail Box.
When you call Lavalife you'll be given a free voice mailbox number and passcode. Your voicemail box lets you send and receive voice messages at Lavalife by Phone. When you make your first call, you should have a pen and paper ready to write down your mailbox number and passcode.

Step #2: Record a Profile.
A profile is a unique message you record describing yourself and what you're looking for. Your profile is your very first introduction to others. To help you record your profile, Lavalife has examples you can listen to.

Step #3: Choose a Community.
The three communities, Relationship, Dating, Intimate Encounters, differentiate everyone at Lavalife based on their relationship needs. Decide which one best meets what you're looking for.

Relationship is for people who are looking to start a long-term, committed relationship. Dating is about going on dates, having fun and making new friends. Intimate Encounters is for people who want a fling or something wild.

With Lavalife by phone you can listen to voice profiles, hotlist the people you really like, and even mingle live in the Lavalounge. The Lavalounge lets you hear voice profiles of all the people who are on the phone when you are, so you can send instant voice messages and even talk live, one-on-one.

For people located outside of the United States, Lavalife has international versions. You can access profiles and connect with Lavalife members from around the world through a website specifically designed for the community you live in. You'll enjoy the same Lavalife experience in your language and with content that is relevant to you. If you're already a Lavalife member, you can login to the local site with your existing Member ID and password.

Lavalife is a dating site with many features like Lavalife mobile dating.

Not only is the Lavalife membership free, there is a lot you can do without paying a cent on Lavalife. You can post up to 10 pictures in your profile. You can search for and see pictures of other members for free. You can search for the people you're interested in for free.

You can not only send smiles for free but you can also reply to the messages you receive for free. To improve your chances of being contacted take some time to work on your profile and add as many pictures of you as you can.

If you don't want to wait until the people interested in you send you a message you should go ahead and buy premium membership packages that will allow you to contact anybody you want on the Lavalife. I suggest you buy a multi-month membership to save money and give yourself more time to contact the people you like. Many added benefits come with a premium membership.

For registered members Lavalife has a powerful custom search tool available in each community that allows you to search by age, height, ethnicity, religion, location, and even interests. With this tool you can narrow down that search to show you only the people you are interested in.

Customer service is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week for registered users. Emails from customers are answers within 48 hours.

Instant messaging is available which means you can have a one on one chat with the members you're interested in who are online.

Should you join Lavalife? Sure, it's free to join, it couldn't hurt plus you never know who you might meet.

If you're over 40 you might want to try Lavalife prime which is a dating site for mature singles only.On Lavalife prime you can find relationships, friends, travel companions and activity partners. You'll get unique, in-depth profiles that allow you to get a feel for the "whole" person. The best part of Lavalife prime is that it's 100% Free to try!

Here is what Lavalife says, officially:

Who Is Lavalife and Why Should I Care?

Lavalife.com is a worldwide leader in online dating. Tens of thousands of new members sign up every week, adding to a member base of over 17 million. If you are interested in being on board for this huge opportunity, then it’s important that you know what Lavalife.com is all about and what makes it uniquely successful as a dating site.

How does it work?

Firstly, registration is always free. And it’s easy! You can create a free profile that expresses who you are and what you are looking for in just a few minutes. At Lavalife, we understand that everyone is seeking something different. This is why we offer three communities: Dating, Relationship, and Intimate Encounters.

From there, you can browse thousands of local profiles; send FREE Smiles to show interest in other members; communicate via Instant Message and e-mail; and more.

As of last year, premium membership follows a competitive monthly subscription format which allows unlimited access to all Lavalife’s online dating tools such as sending E-mails, Instant Messages, and seeing who has viewed your profile.

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Free Chat Rooms at OohYa! Chat

2008-04-25T07:26:00.000-07:00

OohYa.net allows its members to chat for free in the many free chat rooms made available to them on the site.
OohYa Chat " wants you to discover the way chat should be". They offer not only free chat rooms but also complete custom profiles with personal photo galleries. Members can create blogs, add their videos and join groups. Oohya chat offers local chat rooms, adult chat rooms and political chat rooms as well. They offer text chat, voice chat and cam chat, all for free.

To be allowed in Oohya.net's chat rooms you must first register to create your free profile on the site. Registration is quite simple; you need to provide information such as your name, your desired username, your password, your email address, your location, your age, your sex, your sexual preference and your marital status. You may also provide a short "About Me" text and the url to your website if you have one, in order to let the community know more about you. Only your username, your location, your age, your sex, your sexual preference, your marital status, your "about me" text and your web site will be shown publicly on your profile, the rest of the information such as your name and email will not be made public. Finally, you have to accept the Terms and Conditions of the site before you can complete your registration.

After you've created your profile, you have the option to upload a personal video to let the other community members know more about you. OohYa regularly features its members; being featured puts the spotlight on you and allows other members to discover you. You should take some time to properly complete your profile, add a good photo and even a video if possible, all to make your profile more attractive and gain interest from those who see it for the first time. It's all about the first impression, that's what is going to determine whether the people who see your profile will want to chat with you or not.

You should take some time to read the Terms and Condition before registering, I know that most people don't take that time but I believe it's important to know what you are getting yourself into. Just to give you an idea I've noted a few interesting points from those Terms and Conditions. Oohya.net records your IP address when you use their services; they also keep a log of your chat sessions. They do so in case you start doing illegal activities on their site so they can hand over the proof of your illegal behavior to the authorities. Even though Oohya.net's chat rooms are for people of all ages, children included, they do ask that when minors register that they get the explicit consent of their legal guardian, they need that consent to use the Community. They also ask that minors be supervised by adults while they use the site. Certainly one of the main reasons behind the chat logs is the fact that adults are able interact with minors inside the chat rooms. Oohya.net does not allow access to their chat rooms with unauthorized software; they ask all their community members not to use such software. After you've registered with Oohya.net be sure to keep your account active since nicknames unused for more than 3 months might be deleted, so if you want to keep your cool nickname at Oohya.net be sure to log on to the site at least once every three months.

Oohya also offers you free code that you can use to embed OohYa chat to your Myspace or Friendster profile or to your own website. They also provide a simple FAQ, for new-comers, which details how to do all the basic tasks and give all the information you need to get started.

Free English Chat Rooms

2008-04-12T10:28:00.000-07:00

Update 05/17/2011: The sites mentioned in this post seem to no longer exit, I have removed the links to them.

Free-buy-help.com offers free English Chat Rooms. If you're looking for hassle-free chat rooms where you can chat without having to download any software and without the need to register Free-buy-help.com is the place for you.

Free-buy-help offers an English chat which attracts a friendly crowd of people looking to chat without being bothered by chat bots and without having to give up personal information.

The room is accessible through your browser via a Flash client. Which means that, for most people, all you have to do is go to the Free-buy-help web page and the chat will load automatically. The rooms are also accessible via Java clients or other IRC clients such as mIRC or XChat.

You will be assigned a guest ID with a number that identifies you uniquely inside the room. You may change the default Guest ID with your chosen nickname. Having a custom nickname is a good idea if you intend to go back to the room and chat with the friends you've made there. With a unique nickname they will recognize you every time you come back.

There are age restrictions on Free-buy-help chat rooms; you should be 13 or older to use the service. Your IP is recorded when you use the service. As with any public chat room, you should be careful not to publish any personal information since you don't know who might be gathering them to harass or stalk you. If you do meet someone with whom you want to have more than just a public chat, you have the option of having a private chat with that person. Of course private chats are only possible if both people accept to join.

If you are a webmaster and looking to chat with other webmasters to get free SEO advice you should try the Birmingham Web Development Partnership - BWDP free chat room where you can chat with "Dan the man" himself who of course lives in Birmingham in the UK. For those of you who have a web site and want to put a free chat room on it to allow your visitors to chat with you and with each other, BWDP provides the necessary code you can use to do so. There is a large number of free chat rooms in various categories that are made available to you to add to your site.

Free-buy-Help.com is obviously not only about free chat rooms. You'll find free cell phones, free cell phone accessories, free cell phone plans, free cell phone reviews, free cell phone numbers or any other type of free cell phone product or service. The site features products and services, offers and deals. You'll also find free downloads, free ecards, free games, free music, free ringtones, smileys, free translation and video clips.

Free-buy-help.com allows you to chat for free in its English chat rooms made for both native and non-native English speakers who wish to have a friendly chat without being bothered by bots and without having to go through a lengthy registration process. Additionally, Free-buy-help.com links to a number of free chat rooms in different languages such as Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, German and Urdu.

Free Local Chat Rooms at Yahoo

2008-03-20T06:53:00.000-07:00

So many people search for Free local chat rooms everyday and yet they fail to realize that they can easily find many local chat rooms that they can join for free with little effort.
You already know that Yahoo Chat has many free chat rooms available, many of them are local chat rooms, which means that they are aimed at people in specific locations in many countries around the world. Most of the English speaking countries are included so are all the biggest countries. I can't tell you exactly which criteria is used by Yahoo to select which country to include or not but I know that most of you reading this will find your own country. To find your country you need to load the room category list. Look for Regional in the list. There is one list of countries that is immediately visible when you click on Regional there is also another list of countries that is under Regional, you need to expand the Regional directory to see those countries. Once you have found a country you will find many rooms for that country including rooms for States, Cities, etc , within that country.

Yes I know so many people are just not aware of this but it is that simple. If you are lucky enough to have your country listed in the Regional category of Yahoo Chat rooms you can enjoy regional chat with people near you for free. The other good news about those rooms is that unlike some other rooms on Yahoo Chat, they have relatively few bots to bother you. Notice I did not say that there weren't any bots in those rooms but just that they are not all over the place, as I said in my Yahoo Chat Rooms review, the Romance rooms are the ones most affected by the bot invasion.

Some of you might be thinking, "of all the other free chat rooms available online why am I telling you about the Yahoo chat rooms and not chat rooms from other sites?". The reason is simple, Yahoo has so many members from so many countries that you are more likely to find the free local chat rooms that fit you at Yahoo than you do at another site. Yahoo reaches to a broader range of people than most other sites do. Yahoo has local chat rooms for people in the UK, in the USA, in Australia, in India, in Sri Lanka, in the Philippines, or even better, chat rooms for people in San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Atlanta, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Calcutta, Chennai, Delhi, Hong Kong etc... Yes, I bet you did not know you could find all those rooms on Yahoo Chat. In fact you will find not one but many rooms for each one of those places.

A few important details to remember, Yahoo Chat rooms are available only for people 18 and over, in other words, they are for adults only. Yahoo verifies the age of its users with the information provided at the creation of the account to know whether the user is 18+. To be able to access the Free yahoo Chat rooms you need not only to have a Yahoo account but you also need to install Yahoo messenger which you will use to enter the chat. You can not access Yahoo chat on the web, they used to have a java version that was web-accessible but it is no longer available.

What's the catch? I hear you ask. Well, this nice local chat might not be what you're looking for and you might have to look around a few rooms before you find other people in your area that you connect with. You might not enjoy changing rooms in Yahoo chat, you might find it inconvenient. Well what can I say, you don't find all in one place that's why I like chatting in many different rooms and not just one. If it's a date you're looking for you can still check out the adult dating chat rooms instead.

Whatever your choice may be, I wish you enjoy chatting in the free local chat rooms you've just discovered.

Free Adult Chat Rooms

2008-02-18T07:38:00.000-08:00

As I no longer promote passion.com all links to passion.com have been removed.

At Passion.com you are able to chat for free with adults in your area in the many free chat rooms made available to members. Joining the site is free, so is entering the chat rooms. The Webcam Fun Room is the most popular of all the rooms available. Though they do offer additional privileges to members who go for a paid membership like being highlighted in search results and being featured in their newsletter like Nyx4funtoo, a female member from Sacramento, who says she's "outgoing, quite affable, and likes to have fun".

Paid members are always more visible than free members but if you're just there to have a look, you'll do fine on a free membership until you decide to take the next step and upgrade. Passion.com claims to have thousands of news members that join every day, which means there are always new faces to discover and more chances to find interesting people. Some of those members join just to share their stories, while others want to find someone for a lasting relationship.

Passion.com has many local chat rooms in US and Canada, they also have Latin American Brazilian and Caribbean and European chat rooms. They have a number of Asian chat rooms for people in China, Japan, Korea, India and South East Asia. You'll also find the inevitable Russia and Eastern Europe rooms. And finally they have chat rooms for people in Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Regional chat rooms are available in various languages other than English like French, German, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch. The Spanish, German and French are the most popular. So you have the choice of joining a local room to chat with people near you or an interest group chat rooms to chat with people sharing your interest.

There's something for everyone over there, or almost, depending on what exactly you were looking for in the first place.

Like I usually say the chat rooms that are right for you depend on what you are looking for, a spouse? a friend? a person to pass time with? a poker buddy? or someone to chat with about philosophy or politics? First you need to know what you're looking for in the chat, then you can start looking up the numerous chat rooms available to find the right one for you. And you don't have to limit yourself to only one site, no, actually I recommend you try out as many as possible until you find the ones you like the best.

When you say "Adult", most people start thinking immediately about pornography. And indeed on the internet the term adult is used and abused to designate sites dedicated to pornography. Though I wont claim that this blog is child-friendly, I do try to keep it at most at a PG-13 rating. I have to say that I'm one of those who believe that kids (under 13) should not be left surfing the net unsupervised, and the older ones' activities should be monitored or at least parents should take the time to warn their children about staying away from so called adult content.

A friend of mine saw me writing Adult Japanese Chat and told me that people would think I'm linking to a pornographic site. It turns out that the site I was linking to is a family friendly site but the chat service offered is for adults only making it an "adult chat service" as I like to call it. I eventually ended up replacing the "Adult Japanese Chat" by "Meet Yoko", not as catching but at least it says something about the picture. But frankly, if you're a person who doesn't look at pornography would you shy away from a link because it has the term adult in it, knowing that nothing else about the link, including the image accompanying it, indicated that it will lead you to an X-rated site?

Most of the sites that I write about are either for adults only or have separate rooms for adults, kids and teenagers. It is indeed a common practice to separate the chatters by age range to avoid legal problems resulting from adults openly requesting sex from minors in chat rooms. Yahoo had to face that problem in its user-created rooms and it had to take the very drastic measures of closing all its user chat rooms and excluding minors from the chat. You might think that they could have made separate rooms for teenagers and adults but the problem is that adults masquerading as teenagers would still enter those rooms to talk teen-age chatters into having sex with them. Not having teens in the rooms at all allows you to say that you don't even allow them to be targeted by the predators because they are simply not there at all. Of course you might think that kids can masquerade as adults to enter the chat rooms, yes indeed they do but at this point it's not Yahoo's responsibility because they explicitly ask to confirm your age and you take full responsibility for the information you give them. With the current laws they are apparently not responsible at this point if a predator gets to a minor who's pretending to be an adult in an adult chat room.

I created a Yahoo group recently, in case you had not noticed. It's called Adult Web Cam Chat. It's for adults that enjoy cam chat. I have about a dozen members so far but I'm still the only one posting pictures, messages and links. Join my group today so you can add your favorite pictures as well and share with us all the cool links for web cam chat and don't forget to invite your friends to join as well especially your chat buddies. I'm sure that there are more web cam chat sites out there than those that I've discovered so far and I can't wait to try them out. Also don't hesitate to post messages whether it's an invitation for a cam session with you or anything else you think the other members might find interesting. So see you there and Happy chatting!

Update
After five months, my Adult Web Cam Chat Yahoo Group now has 346 members and it's still growing.

1/19/2011 Update: the Yahoo Group is now closed. Thank you to all those who joined and participated!

Free Chat Rooms and finding a Date

2008-02-02T09:59:00.000-08:00

Chatting with hopes to find a date? You're best bet is to chat directly in dating sites. Why? Because you know that the women in there are also looking for dates. It will probably take you less time to convince them to meet with you for that first date. If you have what it takes, join Millionairemate.

Sexy women join this site hoping to meet wealthy and successful men. Don't join if you're neither one. It's not a poor guy's site. If you were poor you wouldn't be able to afford the subscription anyway so save yourself the embarrassment. Millionairemate uses a wealth verification system. If you are one of those lucky rich bachelors join millionairemate today to find your beautiful mate.

Here are a few tips to make the best out of your experience on millionairemate.

First of all, register for free. As a free member you'll only have a limited scope of action. Hopefully one of the things you'll be able to do is go into the free chat rooms where you'll be able to chat with the available women who are online. They have local rooms, therefore it's best for you to aim for chat rooms closest to home. Get in there and make connections. While most members don't chat in the rooms the ones present there will give you an idea of what to expect from the other members you will be contacting when you're ready for that next step.

The next step is of course to buy the premium membership. Now start initiating contact. But who should you contact? Starting with a broad search for members in your area is not a bad idea. You may search by username or by preferences. If you are not looking for a specific person, but rather someone who matches a description, you may give the description of the kind of person you are looking for and search for people matching that description. You can search by almost any category of information, including sex, location, languages spoken, etc. But I will recommend taking the time to fill out your profile with the most information possible because you want your matches to find you interesting.

In case you were wondering millionairemate is not only for wealthy males and beautiful and potentially non-wealthy females. It's also for wealthy females.

Now head over to millionairemate and enjoy yourself. Don't forget to try out the free chat rooms.

Free Yahoo Chat Rooms - A Review

2008-01-28T06:10:00.000-08:00

See Free Yahoo Chat Rooms

Last time I told you how you could enter Yahoo chat rooms to enjoy 100% free chat. I also gave you a few tips to help you make the best out of your very first Yahoo online chatting room experience. Today I want to write a review of this service offered by Yahoo!.

I've used Yahoo! chat rooms many times and I know, like all the other people who've spent at least as much time as I have over there, that it can be both a great or a really awful experience. Having a Yahoo! ID is not enough to use Yahoo! chat rooms. You have to download Yahoo! messenger and then you have to find your way through the menu until you find the entry that opens the window that leads to Yahoo! Chat. By not providing a service that's rapidly accessible Yahoo! tells us that this is not one of their priority and maybe sometime in a not so distant future that service might be no longer available. I think they should try and move the entry to the chat rooms in the Yahoo! Messenger menu in a way that lets you find it without having to search or click too much. Then there's word verification or captcha as some call it. Word verification is such a pain. I suppose the person who came up with that idea was working for one of Yahoo! chat's competitors. He or she came up with the ultimate idea that will irk regular Yahoo! Chat users from the chat rooms for good: "Ask them to go through captcha each time they want to get in a room he thought". Then to make the rest of the team accept the idea he told them that it would stop the bots. Since I guess most of the complaints that Yahoo! gets about its chat rooms concern bots they thought it was a great idea. Of course it's a brilliant idea if you want to make a real chatter's life miserable. Not only do bots still infest the rooms but you as a person have to spend much more time to go from one room to another trying to find one with real people before you get tired of the captcha and try some other free chat service instead. So since this is a review I'll say that the captcha was the worst idea ever and if the people at Yahoo! know what they're doing they'll get rid of it before I finish typing this post because everybody can tell that it's absolutely useless.

So the service is not easily accessible, is it any good? Is the chat worth the trouble? Well for many people who try it the chat is not worth anything because they never get to chat with a real person. For those lucky enough to actually find people inside the rooms the chat is not always worth it either but at least we can't blame it on Yahoo!. If you want a good chat experience you have to go into the right room at the right time and be able to catch people's attention so they can want to chat with you. A good room is usually not one under "Romance" and a good time is usually at night. Remember if you live in the US and you want to chat with people in India, at night for them is during daytime for you.

Like most free chat rooms Yahoo!'s are populated with a bunch of bored people. Notice bored doesn't mean boring. Also the male population is higher than the female population but that's the way the internet is in general. So if you really want a lot of people to chat with you in those room you either have to be a female or pretend to be one... Hopefully for me I don't need to pretend. If you don't want to chat with guys or if you don't want girls to think that you're also a girl there's hope for you because there are a few women like myself over there. One tip you should be nice and pay attention to what they have to say otherwise they might not like chatting with you, remember you're one in a million other guys wanting to chat with them.

Yahoo! chat rooms are for adults 18 and over but you'll find many minors in there. Of course they provide false information to Yahoo! about their age to be able to get into the rooms. There is also a large population of chatters wanting to cyber and there are not only males.

Yahoo chat rooms can be really boring at times, you can spend lots and lots of time room hoping without ever finding anybody interesting to chat with. But with luck you might randomly land on some really cool people.

If you're a woman looking for males to chat with Yahoo chat is probably the place for you, there are so many of them over there that you won't know which one to choose. If you're a male there is some hope for you if you can last longer than the average guy over there. Using the free yahoo chat rooms online can be fun especially if you are having a really boring and lonely time in front of the computer.

Free Yahoo Chat Rooms

2008-01-18T13:52:00.000-08:00

See Free Yahoo Chat Rooms - A review

It is no secret that Yahoo chat rooms are absolutely free. In fact Yahoo chat rooms are among the most popular chat rooms on the internet.In order to enter the chat rooms at Yahoo you need to first install Yahoo messenger which is their chat client.

You can download Yahoo messenger by following this link. Once you've downloaded Yahoo messenger you may join the chat rooms by going to your menu under Messenger>Yahoo! Chat>Join a Room. You'll be presented with a list of many categories of rooms. Find the category you're the most interested in. In some cases the categories also have sub-categories.

Once you've clicked on the the category or subcategory that you're the more interested in you'll be presented with a list of all the rooms available. Next to each rooms you'll see numbers. The number in parentheses indicated the number of users present inside the rooms next to the first number there is a number in brackets preceded by the letter 'w', it indicates the number of users in the room who have their web cam on. You should go into rooms that have a decent number of people. Since those numbers don't seem to be updated in real time chances are if you see a room saying it has twelve people with five using the cam (12)[w3], you might join it only to find out that there were only five people in there.

Once you've chosen a room, click the "Go to Room" button. It it's your first time entering Yahoo! chat for this session, the chat will take some time to connect. Once you're connected to Yahoo! chat you'll need to click on the button that says "Enter Chat" .

Before you can actually enter a room Yahoo will ask you to click on a link for verification. The message from Yahoo and that link are all you'll see in the room before you go through the verification. The fact is that at this point you are not yet actually in the room but rather in a waiting area that leads to the room that you desire joining. Once you've clicked on the link presented to you by Yahoo- it's a bizarre and extremely long link, but don't worry it's a legitimate link from Yahoo! itself -it will open a browser window in which you'll see an image with a text. You'll be asked to type the text you see in a text box and to press 'enter'. If you've entered the text correctly, Yahoo will congratulate you and let you enter your desired room. Now it's my time to congratulate you because you've successfully entered a Yahoo chat room for the first time maybe.

Once in the room I recommend changing your font format before you start posting messages. Why should you do that? Because unless you have a really expressive and attractive ID most people in the room will not notice you especially if you're in a room with a lot of activity. So the first thing you should do is put your font in bold and increase the size to 13 at least. You might also want to change you're fonts colours into something that catches the attention other than the default black. Once you've done all that, you're all set and you may start sending instant messages to the many people present at the same time as you inside the Yahoo chat room. Since you're this really polite person you'll obviously start by saying hi to everyone. The other polite people in there will say hi in return to you and you'll be starting a casual conversation before you know it.

I wish that I could say that the experience inside the chat rooms at Yahoo is always great but that's unfortunately not the case. Inside Yahoo chat rooms especially the very popular chat rooms that you find in the Romance category, there is a really large number of fake user knows as bots. They are called bots as in robots because they are computer programs posing as real Yahoo users. They are the reason why a real user has to enter the captcha text each time he needs to enter a chat rooms. Yahoo thought that the captcha would clean the rooms of bots but obviously they were wrong... So what are bots there for you ask? Most of the time they are used to promote website usually porn sites and sites with adult content like adult dating sites. A bot's behavior in the chat is quite typical and that's why a real user is able to recognize them. Once you're sure you're dealing with a bot don't hesitate to ignore it. To ignore any user inside Yahoo chat all you have to do is right-click on the ID and choose ignore user. So now you're asking how do you recognize a bot. Well it's quite simple. Usually bots pose as female users with sexy IDs and they say things that will get you very curious about them, like that they are lonely at home or that they are about to go on webcam or that they have this webpage where you can see their webcam live. Their goal is to have you click on a link that leads you to the webpage they want you to visit. They will use any excuse to get you there. It turns out that the bots that are promoting porn are not the worst type. Some bots are use to spread spyware and viruses. They behave more or less like the other ones except that they send you to a page that installs a spyware or a virus on your computer. You always need to have up to date antivirus software when you use your computer to surf the internet. Also, you should not download anything from untrustworthy web sites.

So you see the free Yahoo chat rooms may not always be this great free chat experience you were hoping to have. Hopefully there are not only bots inside those rooms. There are also many real people who are there for the same reasons as you. Eventually by looking around a bit and by making yourself noticed inside the chat rooms you will find them or they will find you and you'll chat happily until you get tired or have to go because you have something else to do. If you meet someone really interesting inside a room and you want to still stay in touch with that person in the future you should add that person to your contact list by right-clicking on the person's name and choosing add contact or by clicking on the + sign in the IM window. This way you'll easily know when that person comes online while you are also online so you can chat with each other.

A few important details. Yahoo chat rooms are for people 18 and over. People under 18 are not allowed inside the chat rooms even though they may use Yahoo messenger freely. Yahoo chat rooms were not always an adult only place but they had really bad cases of adults soliciting minors therefore they put all the kids out of the chat rooms and they also put an end to user rooms. Yahoo chat being an adult chat doesn't mean that you will only find sex chat in there, they have separate 'adult rooms' where you may chat about all the sexual topics you can think of but most other rooms are for regular chat.

As I said in the beginning Yahoo chat rooms are among the most popular free chat rooms on the internet that alone is reason enough to give them a try. Happy chatting!

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How to behave in an internet chat room

2007-12-15T11:48:00.000-08:00

You're new to online chatting and you want to know what to expect, how to behave and what to avoid then watch this video. It's all you need to know to get start chatting in the free chat rooms you've just discovered. Then join Friendfinder to chat for Free with singles in your area.

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Free Indian Chat

2007-12-10T08:14:00.000-08:00

Are you Indian? Well you're in luck because you can join IndianFriendFinder and chat for free with other Indians including NRIs. So what are you waiting for? Who knows, you're life partner might be there right now waiting to chat with you, go ahead and give it a try. If you're not Indian you can also join IndianFriendFinder to meet friendly Indians in your area, IndianFriendFinder has members worldwide. Don't worry if you are asked to upgrade your account after your registration, upgrading is voluntary, you don't need to do it if you are not yet willing to pay. You may proceed to clicking on the chat link in the menu (after your account has been approved) to find the desired chat room and chat for free with the other members present. So >> join IndianFriendFinder now <<

Here is the list of the chat rooms you'll find on Indian friendfinder:

Hulchul Chatroom
The Hulchul Room is for people high on romance!

Nukkad Chatroom
The Nukkad Room for people who just want to talk.

Cricket Corner Chatroom
The CricketCorner is for people interested in discussing Cricket.

Jai Bollywood Chatroom
The JaiBollywood room is for movie die-hards to discuss their favorites.

Shaadi ya Barbaadi Chatroom
The Shaadi ya Barbaadi Room is for people looking for advice on marriage or those already married but just need a place to let off some steam.

India Gate Chatroom
The IndiaGate room is a place for people to discuss all things related to Indian culture.

You can be chatting with other Indian people in just moments. You can join for free, create your account, log in, and then click the CHAT link at the top of the Indian Friendfinder site. See why IndianFriendfinder is one of the largest chat & personals sites with an Indian focus.

Update
There is a brand new Screening Room available at IndianFriendfinder. It's a room for those who want to share photos, for those who have many photos on their computer this is a good place to go and share them with the others, you'll also be able to view the photos of other members who are sharing.

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How to have a long distance relationship

2007-12-08T11:19:00.000-08:00

In case your loved one and you don't live close to each other, this video is for you. It's very funny and still informative. If you don't yet have a loved one, join Lavaplace and meet the right person for you today.

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Funny Friendfinder amateur promo video

2007-12-07T07:27:00.000-08:00

I found this funny Friendfinder commercial made by DFinlayson on Youtube. Don't forget, joining Friendfinder is absolutely free.

Free to try phone chat in Beverly Hills

2007-12-06T08:25:00.000-08:00

Something a bit different today, since I'm won't be telling you about the new cool free chat rooms I've recently discovered but rather about how you can have a free phone chat. Watch this video for more information on the chat line in Beverly Hills for local singles.

Paid Dating sites with free chat rooms

2007-11-03T14:29:00.000-07:00

You probably don't know this but there are paid dating sites that allow all members to chat for free. Paid dating sites typically do not allow you to send personalized messages to other members, some don't even allow you to see pictures or full profiles of members if you don't have a paid membership. Hopefully for you, some of those sites allow you to chat with other members even if you only have a free membership. The ability to chat for free allows you to test the waters before the big dive.
1- Lavaplace

Lavaplace is a niche dating site where you can meet women from Russia, Ukraine and ex-USSR states. They offer both Russian and English chat rooms where any member can enter for free and chat with the other members present. I've tried it myself and I can tell you that the members do use them so luckily if you go there you'll find someone to chat and who knows you might find more.

2-Friendfinder

Friendfinder is probably one of the most publicized non-adult site to meet people online. A little known fact about Friendfinder is that they offer a variety of chat rooms where any member, even those with a free membership can chat for free. All you have to do is create your free profile and click on the link in the top menu. I've also tried the Friendfinder chat rooms and I can tell you that the members are very nice.

3- Millionairemate

If you're looking to date people with high revenue, millionairemate is the site for you. They offer free chat rooms where members can chat with each other absolutely free. Instead of going through and endless list of profiles just hop in a room and make direct contact.

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Chatforfree.org

2007-10-09T09:16:00.000-07:00

Chatforfree.org is home of free chat rooms for adults 18 and over. It's similar to the teen video chat, a flash-based chat. All you need is an ID and you're good to join the rooms and enjoy unlimited free chatting hours. You are asked to maintain a clean chat. They explicitly ask the chatters not to show their genitals in the public chat otherwise they will be banned. But nothing forbids you from doing so in your private chats sessions.

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Free chat rooms at Better Chat

2007-10-08T08:47:00.000-07:00

Better Chat is a free chat network. They offer a general all-age chat, a kid's chat and a teen's chat. A message board is also available. Their chat rooms are java-based which means you have to enable java in your browser (most people don't have to worry about this) in order to be able to use their chat rooms.

Free Teen Video Chat

2007-09-14T07:12:00.000-07:00

Teen-video-chat.com is a free web cam chat rooms site for teens age 13 to 19 years old. They consider themselves the world's best free audio video teen chat site and a true teen chat central. Since Yahoo doesn't allow teens under 18 in their chat rooms teen-video-chat.com is an alternative for them. It's a flash based chat so you need to have the flash player installed (most people do) in order to be able to chat within your browser.

Teen Video Chat room an international chat central, teens from all over the world are welcomed to join and chat. You do not need to be a registered member to participate in the chat rooms, all you have to do is choose a nickname and join a room.
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freechatrooms.org.uk

2007-09-13T06:34:00.000-07:00

At freechatrooms.org.uk you will find a listing of web sites offering free chat rooms. It's a directory that groups the chat rooms by theme and the type of users they are intended for. While you will not find free chat rooms on the site itself, you will find information on plenty of others sites where you can chat for free. A chat room safety page is also provided with tips on how to stay safe while chatting online.

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Free chat rooms at USA chat now

2007-09-12T14:58:00.000-07:00

USA Chat Now is a free chat community where you can join a chat room without having to register. All you need to do to enter the room is choose a nickname for your chatting session. The chat rooms are available 24 hours a day.

"Free Chat rooms here are designed to be the best on the internet. Cam chat, Free java chat rooms, free cam chat rooms are what this site offers. If you are looking for a video chat room or a free chat room then this is the place for you."

As you might have guessed by the name, the web site is mainly dedicated to people in the United States of America. Since anybody can enter the rooms freely there is no reason why you might not try it even if you are not in the US. You have good chances of making a few American friends while you're there.

Free chat rooms at World of Chat

2007-09-10T07:43:00.000-07:00

World of Chat (www.worldofchat.co.uk/chatroom.htm) is a UK-based web site that offers free moderated chat rooms. The fact that they have moderators allows the rooms to stay "clean". You have to be over 18 to access the chat rooms. It's a great place for people in the United Kingdom to chat because you will find regional UK chat rooms that will allow you to chat with people who live close to you. Last but not least, you can not only chat at world of chat but also listen to the music that is being played in the chat rooms. For more on World of chat you can visit their blog called Woc chat blog.

Free Chat at BahamiansOnline

2007-09-07T06:15:00.000-07:00

To chat for free with people from the Bahamas and the Caribbean go to BahamiansOnline for free chat rooms and cam chat. It's a good place to go to meet people from the Caribbean.

Free Chat rooms at Tigertom

2007-09-06T14:23:00.000-07:00

TigerTom.com offers a variety of chat rooms including a video chat room, all for free. The site also offers different forums where you can leave messages to your new found pals. The site logs the IP of all the chatters which allows it to ban the IP of abusive users. It's UK-based so most of the chatters you will find there are in the UK. The available chat rooms at TigerTom are Lounge Chat Room, Dating Chat Room, Video Chat Room, Club Chat Room and Alternative Chat Room.

Free cam chat at Camfrog

2007-09-05T07:01:00.000-07:00

Camfrog.com allows you to join its free video chat rooms provided you install their free software. Camfrog.com is an international site with members from various countries. They also have a special section for deaf people. The chat rooms are organized by theme region and language.

Camfrog has very good video and audio quality. Though you may use Camfrog for one-on-one conversations, it also allows you to have a video chat with more than one person at a time in one of the many multi-user rooms. You can even host your own multi-user video conference for free.

For a better experience with Camfrog it's recommended that you have a DSL/Cable broadband Internet connection. Whether you are behind a firewall or whether you use a router or are on a wireless network you'll still be able to use Camfrog.

Users appreciate the clean interface, the ease of use and the good Audio/Video quality and the fast video streaming. A user guide is provided to help new users learn how to use Camfrog, they also have a FAQ and a forum plus you can always contact them for help.

You might also be interested in Free Video Chat rooms at chatforfree.

Free-Chat-Rooms.net

2007-09-04T08:53:00.000-07:00

Free-chat-rooms.net allow people 13 and over to chat for free in their java-based chat rooms. In order to be able to join the chat rooms you have to have a java enabled browser. Since most browsers these days are java enabled you shouldn't have a problem.

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Chat with super models

2007-09-03T11:56:00.000-07:00

The Model Villa is a female apartment-sharing community in the heart of Europe. You can watch 20 young models in their home around the clock and chat with them. You also have the option to control many of the cameras in order not to miss anything. If you want to chat with a model who is not available at one of the chat PC's you can still contact here by leaving her a message. It's your chance to share the live of a super model, for a monthly fee.

Free Chat at Oneindia

2007-09-03T09:07:00.001-07:00

Are you searching to chat for free with people in India? Oneindia.in is the place to go. OneIndia offers free chat rooms by city or community withing India. The chat is Java-based. You don't have to register to join the rooms, all you have to do is choose a nickname and join. The chat rooms are very much alive with many people actively participating. I went into a Bangalore room and had many people sent me PMs. You can easily see how many people are in each chat room and go from one to another. It's a good alternative to the Yahoo chat rooms for Indians and others wishing to chat with Indians.

Free cam chat at 6-chats.com

2007-09-01T11:45:00.000-07:00

Enjoy absolutely free cam chats with a variety of girls, from all over the world, available online at 6-Chats.com. Yes I said girls, they don't have guys, the website is mostly for men. You can create your account 100% free with no charges. 6-chats.com delivers live video-streaming with superb audio technology right in your living room in TV Quality. At the time of writing this they have 80 cams live online.

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Free cam chat at Live Webcam chat

2007-08-31T09:31:00.000-07:00

For a limited time, Live Webcam Chat allows you to enjoy free cam chat when you join the site. Hurry up, this offer wont last for ever.

February 11th Update
Live Webcam Chat seems to have discontinued its service. For those searching for live cam chats check out metrodate.

Free Chat rooms at myspace

2007-08-30T15:32:00.001-07:00

Did you know that you can chat at myspace in their free chat rooms? Well now you do so go over there join myspace and start chatting. You can choose your desired chat room by category, location or age.

Free Chat rooms at WireClub

2007-08-30T07:26:00.000-07:00

At WireClub you can join free chat rooms and chat with other members online. Wireclub is a good place to meet new people and make new friends from all over the world. You have hundreds of rooms to choose from. WireClub also allows you to create your own room and send private messages to other members. No wonder they say that WireClub is one of the most interesting places to hang out and chat on the ‘net.

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Free Chat Rooms at LavaPlace

2007-08-29T15:14:00.001-07:00

LavaPlace allows its members to chat for free in the many chat rooms available on the site. Since the site is also available is Russian there are Russian chat rooms as well. Of course all those rooms are free. It' s a good way to get to know the other members and have an idea of who you could meet before wanting to explore the community a bit further.

Registering does take some time, it's a 4 step process but it is much worth it.

Free Chat rooms at FriendFinder

2007-07-13T10:26:00.000-07:00

Update: I no longer promote Friendfinder, all links lead to Metrodate instead, the site has great free chat rooms and less annoying ads.
Update 2: I updated the links again, click to see where they will lead you.

When you join FriendFinder you may chat for free in the chat rooms. It's a great way to start discovering other members. They have many local chat rooms if you are looking to chat with members in your area. The atmosphere in the Friendfinder chat rooms is usually fun and relaxed.

Friendfinder is mainly a dating which means that most people you will find are looking for a date and even for hookups some times... But you'll also find out that some members are simply looking for friends. They joined the site and created a profile because it's called Friendfinder and they thought it might just be a friendly place to be. They had a look around and decided to stay on the site because you never know they might just meet someone or simply have fun looking around.

Friendfinder has millions of members you are very likely to find someone in your area or at least not to far away from you. The only word of caution would be to be sure that those people have updated profiles because if you look closely you will notice that profiles are kept on the site even after many years of never being updated. This will happen mainly for location where there aren't many members.

If you are a woman and want to catch the men's attention, put your picture so they can see you, better yet, put many pictures of yourself to spark more interest. It's easier for women than it is for men to get attention on any dating site but still you need to stand out if you want to attract the best possible matches.

If you are a man, you should expect to upgrade a membership if you are looking for a date, if you're only looking for a chat a basic membership will do. Take sometime to write a detailed profile because women tend to be cautious online, at least the clever ones. Don't be afraid to be the one to show interest first, women expect it but if she does not respond, don't insist, she's simply not interested. Before you jump and pay for that premium membership be sure to have spotted at least a dozen women you are interested in. Why a dozen because some may no longer log in to the site and some may not be interested. You need to put all the chances on your side so have as many people as possible that you are going to contact before you upgrade your membership.

Remember Friendfinder is not labeled as an 'Adult Dating Site' which means you should not post naked or half-naked pictures of yourself on the site. Pictures are reviewed and filtered. Additionally you are expected to use a clean language when you are in the chat rooms because as I said before many people simply come to have a friendly chat, make some friends and have fun, they don't come in there searching for sex. Certainly some people also come to find a girlfriend or a spouse but even those people are not looking for a dirty chat.

If you find Friendfinder too nice for you and are looking to spiced up cam chat then you might want to try the chat rooms at passion instead. Passion is the 'adult' version of Friendfinder where photos, chats are uncensored. Learn more about the adult chat rooms at passion by reading this review.

Disclaimer

2007-07-02T06:00:00.000-07:00

This blog is intended for audiences 13 years and older. Minor suggestive adult themes may be found here.

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2007-07-01T08:48:00.000-07:00

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