Chatrooms on the Net

[Bolts]

Last night I decided to have a look at a different chatroom on the net. I was really surprised with the way it was run.

Firstly, there is only one box that everyone types into. If there are 16 or so people on line, than the conversations are hard to follow. Everyone types away frantically. I mean I was still reading a line when four or five other replies would pop up on the screen.

The moderators were very interesting. Their messages break into the chat, making it hard to keep track. Lots and lots of people were being banned for bad language or nasty remarks - which is fair enough. After I logged out I felt really mentally exhausted. Where as in this chatroom, I leave uplifted (half the time I don't want to get off).

[poetically_taken]

Alot of chatrooms are like that now days. ON top of that most are worse where all people go there to do is find people to do nasty stuff with/ It's quite sad actually

[Bolts]

Alot of chatrooms are like that now days. ON top of that most are worse where all people go there to do is find people to do nasty stuff with/ It's quite sad actually

Yeah. Lots of venting. I was trying really hard to type as fast as I could just to keep up!! In the end I started typing 'Hi' 'How are you' or 'where are you from'. There was one guy who started getting very PERSONAL (thats when I logged off), but not before he got banned ha! ha! ha!

[jamie]

We have an agreement at my house...we don't enter ANY chat rooms, be it christian or non.

[Keith]

We have an agreement at my house...we don't enter ANY chat rooms, be it christian or non.

I follow the same guideline. Worthy Chat sincerely is an exceptionally run and moderated chat room though. When I first started going into chat rooms, in the early 90's, they were so full of vulgar, sexual language that I couldn't bare it. I would get physically nauseous. Even the Christian ones. Back then, moderators were summoned only if many people were complaining about someone. People rarely complained because most of the room was behaving the same way. I'm not ashamed to say that I wept over the language and attitudes in them.

Now, I just find that I don't enjoy chat rooms. I find them stressful to keep up with. Message boards (and this is the only one I post on or even visit) are more my pace and I have found Worthy to be a Bible-tested ministry that honors God. It's the only reason I'm here.

I say this next thing only out of the sincerity of my heart and with the utmost (and due) respect: God bless the Worthy Chat Admins richly for the work they do!

[ann2]

I pop in and out of a lot of chat rooms.Some are good, fair and some i never go back too.They are {supossed} to be christian chat rooms but arent.There is. 1 that is for women only and i do go there as often as i can.They have been a great sourse of comfort to me.

[Debp]

I don't visit the Christian chat rooms (the only ones I go to) too often. I did for awhile and had a bad experience with an unbeliever there. But once in a while, I might go in, and find someone who is really needing to talk or pray with a true believer.

So I guess the best thing is to not stay too long, unless you can be of help to someone spiritually.

I just visit Worthychat and Crossdaily.com chat rooms. Now that alot of people got booted out of Crossdaily's chat rooms, it is much better. It is easy to keep up with conversations there, too.

[poetically_taken]

Well if alot of people get booted there does it mean that they are a tad bit close minded... or do they boot to keep numbers low?

[Debp]

No, they booted out alot of people who were not believers, and were just fooling around or talking very badly or crudely to Christians.

[poetically_taken]

Oh.... ok then...