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    Novice in online chat - please help

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    Novice in online chat - please help

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    Oddly, I have spend 15+ years on the Internet without learning properly how to chat.

    Every time I stumble into a chat room, I find people asking me questions like "what are your stats?", "how big is your ___?", "what do you like to do?", "call me", etc.

    I don't object to that sort of chat, but it's not what I'm interested in most of the time.

    Can anyone direct me toward "normal" chat rooms, where people talk about politics, life, literature, etc.

    I guess I can figure out how to use IM, but in order to use it, I think I need to first find some "friends". I'm basically looking for a chat room to go to and hang out and find someone who's interested in this-and-that for a short time.

    Either English or German would work for me.

    Any suggestions?
    Author eric (new york) (63613) 11 Sep 08, 08:46
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    Stay here, its nice ;-) If you only know English, we can talk to you.
    #1AuthorSilbermond11 Sep 08, 09:09
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    Sorry, had to read until the end. You know German *schäm*

    What are you interested in?
    #2AuthorSilbermond11 Sep 08, 09:10
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    Ich interessier mich nur für interrestante Chatpartners zu finden (Ohne Flirting, usw.)

    Auf deutsch or English.
    #3Author eric (new york) (63613) 11 Sep 08, 09:27
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    Why don't you try www.zeit.de.

    I have asked a friend of mine for the URL of an American political chat room - she gave it to me ages ago, but I never used it and lost it; bear with me.

    #4Author penguin (236245) 11 Sep 08, 09:34
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    Have you every tried http://www.webchat.de/ ?
    It's a good address for lots of chatrooms as far as I remember - and with lots of topics to choose from. Not only the flirty ones ;-)
    #5AuthorHmmm11 Sep 08, 09:41
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    A lot of different platforms have their own chat function where you can "meet" people with similar interests. For example, the P2P music platform "Soulseek" has extensive chat rooms devoted to particular music genres. Or download Skype and use the search function for people in "Skype Me" mode - that means they want to chat. That does mean just chatting with one person at a time, however.
    #6Author the kat (387522) 11 Sep 08, 09:45
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    To be fair, chatting with people interested in spelling and grammar is probably one of the least 'flirty' things one can do on the internet. And it's very work-safe...
    #7AuthorMatt11 Sep 08, 10:16
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    Well, I'm not exactly an "expert" either, but to my understanding there are basically 2 general concepts, for which LEO is actually a pretty good example:

    - so-called "forums" for specific subjects (language, culture, politics, etc., with more or less strict "rules",

    and

    - "chatrooms" (such as LEO's "Quasselzimmer") for anything else ...
    #8Authorwoody11 Sep 08, 10:21
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    @6 - the kat
    Hast du eigene Erfahrungen mit dem Skype me modus?

    Ich habe leider so gut wie ausschließlich negative Erfahrungen gemacht, d.h. es kontaktierten mich fast ausschließlich Typen, deren 1. oder spätestens 2. Frage war: "Hast du eine Webcam"

    Oder hast du von dir aus versucht Leute zu kontaktieren?

    Ich bin so wie eric(new york) auch auf der Suche nach interessanten chats, und wenn ich auch nichts gegen einen kleine Flirt habe, so nervt es doch tierisch sich dauernd gegen eineindeutige Anfragen auf unterstem Niveau wehren zu müssen. Auch wenn das "Sich Wehren müssen" nur aus dem Klick auf "sperren" besteht.
    #9AuthorSkype me14 Sep 08, 12:02
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    @Skype me: Ich kann Deine Erfahrungen bestätigen. Ich bin auch ständig dabei, Typen ins elektronische Nirwana zu klicken, die mir ihre "private parts" zeigen wollen etc.
    #10AuthorDon't skype me!!!!14 Sep 08, 13:24
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    @ Skype me: Ich habe es eigentlich immer so gemacht, dass ich selber nicht "skype me" einschalte sondern nur nach Menschen suche, die "offen haben". Damit habe ich gute Erfahrungen gemacht, zB als ich mal jemanden suchte, um mein Spanisch zu üben. Man kann auch gleichgeschlechtliche aussuchen, wenn man den Eindruck nicht erwecken möchte, dass man auf Flirten aus ist.
    #11Author the kat (387522) 14 Sep 08, 14:35
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    @10 - Don't skype me !!!!

    Schade, dass ich dich nicht anskypen darf, wir hätten zumindest schon ein gemeinsames Hobby - :-)))


    Oh ja, die "private parts" ... hi hi

    Vielleicht starte ich noch einmal einen Versuch nach the kats Methode.
    #12AuthorSkype me14 Sep 08, 15:01
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    One more suggestion for eric:

    http://tabletalk.salon.com/

    #13Author penguin (236245) 17 Sep 08, 10:01
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    That looks like an interesting site with something for everyone. Thanks for the tip, pengu! :-)
    #14Author the kat (387522) 17 Sep 08, 10:28
     
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