Start From a Friend

I think it's a good thing that we have the opprotunity to talk to people everywhere. The only place i chat w/people is on mylot. I don't go to any other sites to chat but i sure do enjoy mylot & the friends i have made here.

Hi zand, The is no doubt that if we have no like minded people around us to share our thoughts and feeling chatting is the best medium. I do not say I have not chatted with people from different land and cultural inheritance but feel a bit skeptical thinking if or not the person I am in touch now through net is really the person that his/her image has blotted in my mind. May be that he/she is pretending or trying to draw your attention only and nothing else. Besides once you go off life the person too vanished which is not the case with people physical closer to us. Do not you think so?

Yes, these unknown people to me later on becomes known. Little by little, I got to know them better. Soon they become my online friends. Chatting, indeed, makes the world a small world. Though, physically apart, but chatting makes you updated with each other.

I know that there are people who really love to chat. There are also those who only chat to known friends. I am the latter. It is not because I am afraid or because I do not want to meet new friends but simply because I do not have much time online. So when I am online, it is mostly done posting here in mylot and chatting with known friends regarding important concerns or saying a short hi and hello.

I have a couple of Indonesian friends, younger guys, who are a lot of fun to chat with. They are funny and interesting. I find out things about their country and culture and I help them with their English. why not?

hi zandi, my life wouldn't be as exciting as it is if there's no chatting in this world. i met my husband through chat and now that he's working miles apart, our family is still connected...thanks to the internet...and to chat. so...i can say that chat really played a big part in my life.

I have used Yahoo messenger for many years. I began to use it when I was an IT Trainer and some of my students (many of whom were mature people needing to gain IT skills on returning to work after raising families) were concerned about their children using chat rooms. In the interests of research, therefore, I began to use chat rooms and struck up a friendship with someone in the Philippines. She introduced me to one of the Yahoo games (Literati) and, whilst playing that, I met several more friends. I don't think that distance is any bar to friendship. All that is necessary is a reasonable facility with language (and I have found that chatting has improved my 'conversational typing' and my keyboard speed somewhat). What I find particularly interesting is that, especially when you correspond regularly with someone, it seems possible to judge their mood and even to 'hear' their tone of voice. I can't explain this at all because I cannot see where the 'clues' come from. When one is speaking with someone face to face (or even on the phone) there are many clues which add a great deal to the plain meaning of the words - facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, pauses and so on - which logically should simply not be available in chatting online. In some way, however, it often seems possible to 'reconstruct' these clues from the typed words. I have spoken to others about this and many people have had the same experience.

Chatting with unknown people is very trickyl On one hand it can be an enrcihing experience if the other end has good intentions and is good mannered. On the other hand one must beware of the other persons intentions are. I always enjoy chatting because I always manage to learn something out of other people.

Hey zandi! I love to chat! I think it is one of the most wonderful inventions of all time! It doesn't matter where someone lives in the world and all we have to do is start typing and we are able to have a wonderful conversation! I love it! So what if we can't meet or see each other! It is still so much fun to be able to "talk" to each other! I am getting a webcam and I am wondering if I will now be able to see my friends all over the world! I don't know too much about webcams yet, but I am so excited! My "computer guy" is going to give me one and I will be able to find out if I can see other mylotters too! That will open up a whole new world for me if I can! I can't wait to ask him how it works! I know he has one and I can see him, although that isn't so much fun because I see him all the time because he lives only ten minutes away!

I agree that cyberspace has made the world so much smaller and it is a real privilege to meet others from different corners of the world and find that we are not all that different after all! I believe that if friendships are meant to be they will be even if it is through the Internet. Of course we all know that we need to be cautious because unfortunately not everybody is who they say they are but the world has changed off line too and bad individuals can be found in the ‘real’ world too. I love the Internet it has enriched my life to end, from the new wonderful people I have met like yourself and old friends from school I have found thanks to good old Facebook!

hi zandi, i have less time for net surfing but u know, i am addicted to chat but i think mylot is a great platform where we can create some good friends and later we can chat privately being off line from mylot. this way i do chat with some mylotter privately. thanks.

Hi, you're right, the world becomes smaller every day, distances are crossed in only a few seconds, people are close, you can talk to someone from thousands of kilometers away very easily, as if being in the room with you. Often communication from mind to mind, from soul to soul is more important, learn to be more friendly and more tolerant. I can say that i has changed my way of seeing things more different after I started to meet people online, I started to be more sociable, and why not I started to know better minds and souls.

Well i like to chat for 2 to 3 hours when i am really bored. In general i do for an hour.

chatting is the best way to keep in touch with the old friends.But chatting is not the clear way to understand the friends talk.if we talk to new friends then also we donot that he/she is true friend or not.

Yes I do feel like I'm gaining something which is a friend. Not only that but I also learn about their ways of life which most often is very similar to mine or someone that I know. I love to learn about different cultures and how people go about their daily lives. It can be right interesting. I have one friend that I hope to meet one day although I know it won't be easy but I can still dream about it and give it a try. God willing, we will get to meet each other some day.

Chatting has actually lessen my expenses on telephone bills. Whether the chatting is meant for business or personal matter chatting, has always been the cheaper alternative. It does not only saves money but it also keeps us in touch with friends and relatives in any part of the world. I can in fact negotiate and close deals just by chatting and it is nice to note that even without spending too much on telephone bills, business can still be just as fruitful. I should say I love this invention!