Online chat - does this exist?

[noitsachicken]

Do chat rooms still exist?
I don’t want online dating/sex, just finding online friends, with similar interests who aren’t weird/scary 🤣

Is that a thing? How do I find it?
Thanks

Honestly don’t know I’ve never used them !

Isn’t that basically what mumsnet is?

No ..its chat rooms.
.where loads of people chat together and you see the chat straight away.. there is different rooms for various things.. quizz rooms.. hobby rooms ... gay rooms / 40s grapevine/ 50s grapevine.. county rooms... some people met up in groups and had weekend meets.. l made lots of lovely friends some im still friends with..

It was a big thing when everyone was buying their first desk top computers. I joined one in 1999.

Oh I get what you mean now! Had forgotten all about them but having flashbacks of Lycos Chat now!

Gosh I never got into this at all

I guess like a dating website/app, but without the dating part 🤣

Where you can just chat to people - but you know who they are, it’s not as anonymous as this.

Have a chat with AI. It's much pleasanter and more knowledgeable than 90% of the people who'd found their way into chatrooms by the mid 90s. 😁

Is it chat as in voices? Or chat like typing, like this?

Typing.

Freeserve over 40s chat room became an unintentional dating site as I met my DH on there, been with him 22 years married for the last 9. But yes I miss those chat rooms it was great to log in at anytime and have someone to chat to. I did go to a few meet ups and even a wedding of another couple from the chat room.

I’ve never been in an online chat room, they were happening way before I was on the internet, but they sound very much like a discord server. They can also have different rooms, invite who you want by putting a link here (or wherever). Put someone in charge, they set the rules and can kick people off if they’re not following etc.

Well i officially feel old after there having to be an explanation of what a chat room is 😅

Reddit offer chat rooms on communities of choice. I think you find it in the messages section. I've never used it though.

If that was aimed at me, I might be able to make you feel slightly better by admitting I’m 55, I was just very late to pick up computers 🤣.

Bumble, the dating site, have a Bumble for friends app but I think it’s more geared towards eventually meeting in real life.

Peanut is another one, I think it’s aimed more towards women who are pregnant or young mums but wiki does say it’s a community for women?

I haven’t used either so can’t comment but these are off the top of my head.

AOL chat was amazing back in 2001