What are the effects of people who use chat rooms?
455452
obsession and addiction. People who use chat rooms alot feel like this is the only conection to the world they need. They will sit at the computer for hours at a time without eating, sleeping, bathing or working. When they aren't at the computer they are thinking about the computer or talking about a friend they talk to on the computer.\nThese people get so wrapped up into the world of chat rooms that they will sink into a deep depression if there computer is taken away.
29604
Young and getting younger.  I would guess in the teens based upon the Q&A's.\nOne does not get points in chatrooms.
673966
i get the "joining a chat room took longer than expected" message every time i try to join a chat room too, so i no longer bother with it because yahoo has screwed it up.\n\nso i just go to http://www.yahoochat.com to chat now because messenger is absolute rubbish!
203475
I don't do chat sites. I use IRC {internet relay chat} it's great
86465
I think Yahoo took away the 'Adult' chat rooms until they can find a way to moderate them.  They had a problem with youngesters going in them without consent of their parents.
719822
Perhaps if you posed this in the computer section, you'd get a more reasonable answer.  Personally, I don't use chat rooms or chat software, so I can't help you.
109817
The answer: Yahoo! no longer allows access to the chat rooms for people under 18 years old. When I went to the chat site, it said that I couldn't because I was under 18.\nI think I read that they are doing it to cut down on child predators. Really a good thing, actually.
576899
Yes you can uninstall the other chat programs or keep them on.  It won't make any difference.  However, Trillion does seem to have some issues that I've experienced that the other chats didn't have and I ended up dl-ing yahoo chat and un-st the others because it works best.
1187592
I gave up going to chat rooms. There's always like a million people in the rooms yet hardly anyone talks. So I just use skype, I get people messaging me all the time. And using this Yahoo Answers thing is a good way to meet people. Except it's against rules to initiate a private convo. Stupid. But if you ever wanna talk sometime, just click on my name, and my e-mail and sn are there. Take Care!
1146456
You are safe in chat rooms as long as you never give out any personel information. No address, no telephone number, no real name.
102003
online chat invitations are DANGEROUS\n\nget a REAL life...
233103
an 'empty' chat room ...\n\n\non a serious note: a chat room with only 1 person, since you would essentially chat with yourself or not chat at all
301994
Don't do it.  Plus, chat rooms can be weird places.
157259
I have been chatting in Yahoo for 4 years and i have stopped chatting for past one month.Chatting is just a waste of time. I just removed entire Yahoo messanger program from your system.
475890
what is chatroom for????
1134523
Yahoo's deleting their chatrooms.  I read on the site that it's going through an upgrade. Although in the same article, it was pushing chatting on the Messenger instead.
453089
Most people don't feel comfortable finding themselves added to someone they don't know,they feel threatened.\nI am not sure if our studies will get affected by this. but if you spend so much time online chatting you will certainly get bad marks.