What Happened to Chat Rooms?

Whatever happened to the chat room? It seems that chat rooms have been all but locked away from the internet. Instant Messaging, made popular through AOL and Yahoo!, was great in the mid 90's. Yet you couldn't engage multiple friends at a single keyboarding session like you could in one of their chat rooms.

The social site boom of the late 90's early 00's saw sites like Blackplanet, Asian Avenue, Myspace, Mi Gente and Tagged expand on the concept to allow chat rooms and forums to fill up peoples' time.

The sad part is most of us didn't even notice they were gone until.... BAM, it's too late! When I started college AOL and Yahoo! chat were the way you connected but as the internet evolved... chat rooms died.

I know some still exist however, you've got to pay to play so-to-speak. Social sites like Facebook emerged as room-free sites that relied upon a different way of connecting and conversing.

IM'ing, posting, liking and sharing became the way of interaction. Along with blogging and tweeting, this has become the new norm and attributed with being the reason chat rooms are on the back of milk cartons...

by. F. Carlton Peeples

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