Hatrack River Forum: AOL Chat Rooms and the Terror Within

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Posted by Pixie (Member # 4043) on :

::shivers and clings to Hatrack::

I actually had the luxury of being bored a little earlier today so I thought I'd actually chance it and see what "normal people" (ie. non-geeks) talk about. I plan on spending the next hour or so reading the entirety of the newspaper and some of the older reference books lying around the house in an effort to purge my mind of what, at best, may be called inane.

These children are all around my age and yet they can hardly spell or write properly. Or, if they can, they neglect to do so. And then what they talk about...

In an hour and a half's worth of time, the record amount of time given to discussion not related to finding someone of the opposite sex was 27 seconds. It's depressing, really.

Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :

Ah. I remember those dark days when I would wander into teen chat rooms because I thought I belonged there. The youth of America is hopeless.

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Pixie, whats worse is when you realize most of the adults on the message boards at AOL are just as silly, with less (but not much) talk about sex, a little better spelling, but just as depressing.

Says the guy who's spent a lot of time at work and between calls reading these message boards.

Basically, don't think society is doomed based off those people. If you base how society is based off people in chat rooms and message boards on AOL, we're already doomed.

Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :

What's worst is when you realize that by stepping into an aol chat room, you have now destroyed your aol email account with horrendous volumes of spam.

Sigh. I had to stop using my original account for email.

Posted by Lara (Member # 132) on :

You have to give them credit for efficiency though. a/s/l is probably the shortest pickup line in any generation

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

[ROFL]

@ Lara

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

Then, when you realize that half of the the teenagers in the teenage chat rooms are overweight, balding men, you get even more depressed.

Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :

Chatrooms have their place, but they're a more intimate kind of discussion than most people are willing to admit. I can't fathom the point of waltzing onto a channel where I didn't know anyone.