Are chatrooms still a thing?

[Reshbod]

I'm working on a story that involves a wife getting into a virtual affair via a chatroom. However, I really don't see many chatrooms online these days. Most of the chatrooms I used to visit have long since disappeared and the ones that are still out there are lame.

If they are pretty much obsolete, what is the best way to have a virtual affair now a-days?

 

[NotWise]

I'm working on a story that involves a wife getting into a virtual affair via a chatroom. However, I really don't see many chatrooms online these days. Most of the chatrooms I used to visit have long since disappeared and the ones that are still out there are lame.

If they are pretty much obsolete, what is the best way to have a virtual affair now a-days?

There is a chat here at Lit, and I think it has traffic, but you could also set the story in 1998.

When I was moderating a multiuser domain (say, 1996), it became a vehicle for a middle-aged woman to have virtual sex with a lot of guys, including a sixteen-year-old boy, who was then bullied by the older guys. What a mess that was.

I haven't kept up with the many different options in social media, but those would be your current options. Plus, once the conversation is started, plain old text messages (with pictures, if you prefer) would work just fine.

 

[KimGordon67]

I used to use Chat Avenue a bazillion years ago, and actually did make a couple of ongoing connections through there. I just checked, and it's still operational, although its changed a lot.

 

[jaF0]

There is a chat here at Lit, and I think it has traffic,

And they get mighty fussy when they get kicked out:

http://forum.literotica.com/forumdisplay.php?f=70

 

[Blind_Justice]

Discord seems to be pretty popular. No idea how secure, private or safe it is for virtual sex. But when did that stop anyone?

 

[KimGordon67]

Discord seems to be pretty popular. No idea how secure, private or safe it is for virtual sex. But when did that stop anyone?

Can you use Discord to find strangers? I've only used it to connect with people I already know, with their user names.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Can you use Discord to find strangers? I've only used it to connect with people I already know, with their user names.

I'm not an expert - far from it actually - but there are open servers on Discord which operate like classic chat rooms.

 

[lovecraft68]

There are still chat rooms, especially if you're talking about a story involving an affair as sites like adult friend finder has them for whatever it is you're looking for.

But as far as worrying about it? Don't, its your story.

Notwise suggested pushing the story back 20 or so years when they were a much bigger thing(they were big well past 1998) that's an option.

My option would be to just go with a chat room on a fictional site...are people going to be "Are they still a thing? Who uses those? What the fuck, One bomb!" I doubt that, and again if you create a made up site...they can't go fact check you, right?

Plus, and maybe this is me because I've never been one to hang out in chat rooms or social media, with the exception of here...isn't a forum like this somewhat close to a chat room? We talk about things and many times people will start pm'ing each other to have private conversations about whatever

Just go with that angle, it'll be fine

 

[SimonDoom]

Doesn't seem to me like it would be a problem. Regardless how many people are using them now, the technology is familiar to a modern audience, so I think you are unlikely to lose people. Or use a substitute. Maybe two people meet online, and then they switch to a Zoom session. There are innumerable Sites, including this one, that have private messaging capabilities, and they might suffice for your purposes. Maybe just plain old text messaging would do.

Just my suggestion: Don't put the story in the past. Keep it current, and adapt the technology to current usage to achieve the widest possible currency for your story. You might need to do a little research to determine what online technology best suits your story.

 

[AlphaLyon]

Other more modern alternatives could include...
chat sites: Kik, telegram, WhatsApp
social media sites: tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok
dating apps: bumble, tinder, PoF

With some minor tweaking, you can have your characters meet via one of those sites and develop a relationship that way. Technological methods have changed, but the intent is still the same and all of the above allow for DMs.

Or, you could just do it as a period piece.

 

[PBAnnie]

You could give the "chatroom" a different name and describe this new social media technology as a next-gen chatroom that also incorporates features from more recent technologies, i.e. it's not strictly a chatroom but the social media site does have a chatroom as part of its suite of tools.

"One tool to rule them all, and in the chatrooms bind them." - J. R. R. Talking (probably)

 

[LAHomedog]

Didn't chatrooms move to places like Omegle?

 

[Ginlover]

Have a look at sex chat 321. There are people on there in online virtual, relationships lasting over a year. Lots of transient online hook ups. Lots of men acting as women and bots. The company who own the platform have multiple chat sites by country, age and hobby plus a few dedicated sex chat rooms, The BDSM Garden being another of their sites. They all look the same from what I’ve seen.
Open access with or without verification. Found by a simple google search so no need to know anyone to find it.

Fetlife has groups specifically for people to find discord, Snapchat, Skype and WhatsApp chat groups.

 

[PennameWombat]

I have a story in progress which is recognizably set ‘now.’ But I’ve invented a couple of social media sites:
- Tingle - much like a cross of Tinder and eHarmony. Includes a chat feature for you and a ‘match’ to chat and trade details to meet IRL if so desired.
- Tumble - the “I want someone to fuck.” No commitment, no guilt, no names. Even allows men to include the sizes of their cocks and “they verify.”

‘Chat’ rooms, Slack and IRC and Webex Teams, I use for work. I have absofuckinglutelly zero desire to use outside of work. But they exist, I’m on one for my soccer team and the league uses it to send out info.

It’s just easier for me to invent for my story and tweak. Readers will buy in, or they won’t, but this way they work the way I need them to work I’ve also invented some video games for the story.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Doesn't seem to me like it would be a problem. Regardless how many people are using them now, the technology is familiar to a modern audience, so I think you are unlikely to lose people. Or use a substitute. Maybe two people meet online, and then they switch to a Zoom session. There are innumerable Sites, including this one, that have private messaging capabilities, and they might suffice for your purposes. Maybe just plain old text messaging would do.

Just my suggestion: Don't put the story in the past. Keep it current, and adapt the technology to current usage to achieve the widest possible currency for your story. You might need to do a little research to determine what online technology best suits your story.

All good suggestions, imho.

Rather than name a specific chatroom like AOL or Yahoo (LOL!) - just state that it's an online chatroom and go on with your own bad self.

 

[jaF0]

Doesn't seem to me like it would be a problem. Regardless how many people are using them now, the technology is familiar to a modern audience, so I think you are unlikely to lose people. Or use a substitute. Maybe two people meet online, and then they switch to a Zoom session. There are innumerable Sites, including this one, that have private messaging capabilities, and they might suffice for your purposes. Maybe just plain old text messaging would do.

Just my suggestion: Don't put the story in the past. Keep it current, and adapt the technology to current usage to achieve the widest possible currency for your story. You might need to do a little research to determine what online technology best suits your story.

Why not plug LitChat? KittyMama might even allow an exception to the no link rule.