Do you prefer to chat on-line with strangers?

Hello Dpk..I am afraid I cannot furnish you with any information on this topic because I have never chatted online wiih strangers nor visited any chat rooms so far..Some how I have never been interested in this sort of things. Its best to be careful while interacting with strangers.And chatting has been a bane and a boon to many people. I have had occasions to attend weddings where the couple have come together in chat rooms and had become partners for life.I have also heard of cases where people fall into bad company and even get cheated through such ventures.I have always tried to discourage chlidren also from engaging in such chats because it is seen that teenagers are the most vulnerable to chatting with strangers. Infact even my experience with social net working is limited to mylotting alone....

I DISLIKE CHATTING...period! For one, I find that window very very distracting and secondly, I had joined a chat site for the heck of it and the language..OMG they could have opened a school in slangs and abuses. I tried a few others after that (chatting was so much the 'in' thing then) but they were all more or less the same...inane topics, mindless mudslinging, personal attacks...I just stopped.

Dpk, I am hardly into chatting and do it only with very friends. So chatting with strangers is certainly not easy and I don't do it at all. Having said this, although as strange as it may sound, people share so many things here so easily. You are typing text after all. Chatting in ways is similar only its more real time and the reactions are more spontaneous. To start with, all the friends here are strangers too,but we get to be friends after some time, but yet we are hesitant about chatting. Strange indeed and it is something to ponder about.

i do not chat with strangers. after a few incidents, where i was cheated by my so called best friend, i even do not like to chat with known friends. don't know why but its now hard to believe people for me.

I love chatting on line. I get to know many folks I would not otherwise meet. I stay at home most of the time and this way its likes visiting friends at there home. What's also great is I do not like to gossip so I can have conversations about every thing with out getting involved with the sorry side of peoples life. I can get or give information and don't have to be embarrassed by people I meet in person and its nice to not have to hear dirty words. I am not a prude but in today's world it seems that most conversations are riddled with filth. On TV or in the movies. When chatting on line unless you go to a site that has no rules you don't have to worry about this. Yes! I love chatting on line.

Hi dpd!I do chat to strangers online.Our experiences depends on us.If we find chat taking a undesired route you can always block the person.But my experience has been good till now except a few persons I have blocked.

i donot usually chat but once i had gone to a chat forumin yahoo and o got pretty bored as none of them talk about any relevant stuff.this was before i became active in mylot.after this i have never gone to any other site.

Deepak I was into chatting previously, when younger, I guess. I used to chat with family and sometimes it used to be an open one. It was fun then but today it doesn't amuse me anymore. I would rather mylot or read something. When I used to chat, I would never become very close to that person. Like I would not disclose my email address, phone number or other personal details. Sometimes not ever ASL! It was complete anonmiety. It was fun and sweet. But I do not see myself there any more. I have gorwn with time and now, open chat is but waste of time. I only chat with my friends here and family. I am comfoertabke that way. Have a great day.

Hi dpk, When I was single, I love chatting with strangers and I met good friends before, I even met a couple with 2 kids only in chatting before and we enjoy talking a lot...I was sad that our communication was cut off!

Chatting makes a worthwhile experience. I do chat with strangers and it has given me an added dimension to learn more from others. So far I have not met any awkward experiences while chatting. Chatting is just like talking to our real physical friends except that it is electronically connected.

I don't actually prefer online chatting with strangers, but I don't really mind. I happened to make quite a few good friends by talking online. But like you said, some of the experience are quite "bad". I think it really depends on your luck to meet the right people! I am definitely open for the option *smiles*.

Hi Deepak its long since i chatted with strangers i think that craze of chatting gone now but i do have long list of friends on hotmail and gmail and i do chart with them, sure family members are also there and its nice mode, i like it very much, fortunately i never had any unpleasent experince Take care and enjoy

My answer is 'no'. I have using the internet for (official purpose) the last ten years but using personal purpose for the last one year only. I signed up with some other social networks (some friends sent the links) but after realising the problems with that sites I left all those and now I am not even visiting the same. I think I am matured enough to understand the disadvantage as well as advantages in net. I think the younger generation should be more careful because mostly they are happened to be the 'preys'. Parents should be vigilant on this matter and take proper initiative to prevent their children from visiting unwanted sites and chatting with strangers.

Ya prefer to chat with strangers. I take more enjoy on talking with them. I have a unforgettable memory chatting with stranger. About 2 years ago i make chat with a Philippine lady on the distance she is very very from me. I never have thought that of things became with stranger. On the first she asked whether i liked to chat with her or not. I was positive she was the most friendly and caring which i have never feel. She became one of by closest & best friend. But unfortunately she disappeared. As per her saying her job was not not satisfactory. I some times be on line & i hope if she had came back. I always miss her so much.

To start with, I don't really like chatting online let alone chatting with a stranger. I prefer to meet face-to-face rather than communicating through online or phone. However, I do think that chatting with strangers has its good and bad. The good is that if you're lucky, you add your list of friends. The bad one, well, if you're really unlucky, you got prank call or some sort of annoying person

I rather talk to most of my friends online. I have this one friend that will talk and talk forever no matter what you say to get off the phone. I had to have my husband call once from his cell phone just to help me get off. She will just keep talking away. So its better if I just email her lol.

I don't like chatting with strangers. Especially I feel a little annoyed when the strangers ask you personal questions but they won't tell theirs at first. This is very bothering to me. So when I experience it, usually I will ask whether they are policemen. Otherwise why they always tend to ask others' personal questions but without introducing themselves at first. I love China

I do not have any online friends except those I have met on mylot. Have made a few friends here with whom I do communicate through my personal emails. I do not chat on any of the other chatting sites at all. So I do not have any experiences to relate here. But I dont think I would want to log on to any of the chatting sites to chat with strangers.

I have really not gotten into the chatting phase with people I don't know. I have met people I have never physically met online that I have been friends with for years (mostly through IC work online). I have a young son that I do not allow to do the chatting thing online, so I stay away from them too.

I really enjoy chatting online with folks, I chat online all day. I've found many real life friends that started online and have blossomed into 'real time' relationships with some great people. I am more comfortable typing then talking face to face. I also do a lot of business online so some of my clients I never meet but work well with. I think its an effective skill to have, online communication. The good thing about talking online is if you don't like someone, you can just easily avoid them or put them on ignore. Not so easy to do that with real life people!