Things I Learned From Lit Chat

[DarlingBri]

Well, the other day I was rather bored, so I ventured over to Lit's chat room for my first and only visit.

Yes, OK, it's a sex site. But on the boards we talk about a wide range of stuff, so I thought the chat rooms might cover more then they, err, uncovered.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong!

Things I learned:

* There are a lot of BadDaddies out there and *dire* shortage of DirtyDaughters to go with them.

* When someone named "DogFucker" asks "Anyone wanna role play?" they won't appreciate it when you point out that dogs can't type.

* "The Family Room" does *not* mean what I thought it did. Oops.

Anyway, that was my short but enlightening adventure in Lit Chat. I can't be the only person around here interested in chat for just idle conversation, can I?

OMG... maybe I am!

 

[Mistress]

Yeah I went once..but got tired of everyone wanting to fuck me lol..if I'm going to chat then lets chat dont send me a message asking me to spank you because my name is Mistress!

 

[Adoratrice]

I just left the chat....I go back every few months or so just to see if maybe *just* maybe there is some actual conversing going on.......mmmmm nope still the same 'ol hey wanna do me drivel. I mean I love sex as much as the next girl but I don't see the pleasure in getting all worked up with no one to fuck....although today I am feeling rather frisky and of course Mr.Man has to work 'til 8:00...think I'll go take a bath

Thought I'd share.

 

[Xander]

Squeal for me Baby!!!

Who's your daddy??

WHO IS YOU DADDY????

Yihaaaaaaaawwwwww

(sorry slight case of morning uhm...sillyness)

 

[Mistress]

Laughs and snuggles Xander

God, I love the way you type baby! Oh yes!!!!

 

[Isolde]

*laughs* I used to go there way back when I didnt realize the boards were here and I got tired of it. I would be in there for only a few minutes before everyone would start PMing me and I felt like I needed to duck out of the way.

I did make a good friend off of it so I dont regret going but I usually stick to the BBs now.

 

[DarlingBri]

Oh, good...

I was starting to feel like a cyber freak

I wonder... if there was a "just chat" type of effort added to the chat rooms... do you think people would be interested?

I'd go. I'm honestly uncomfortable in there now. There are about 30 people and only 3 of them are talking... and in the eerie silence you can just know why it's so quiet.

Ick, it's like being in college and listening to your room mate and the dorm stud shag 6 feet away.

 

[nitengale]

I have never been either...

I just popped in and was asked in less than one minute...

What was I wearing....I would like to know why sweats, and Tiger Slippers are such a turn off?

Was I alone?....they were not the least bit interested in hearing about my two gorgeous Goldens.

Did I do phone sex?....I admire the direct approach, but how about we at least swap names first.

Too bad....be a nice to just 'chat' with people without feeling like I was chum off the back of a boat.

 

[Isolde]

ROFLMAO..Kerrie

[Edited by Isolde on 04-03-2001 at 11:51 AM]

 

[OUTSIDER]

I looked in there once and left real fast it just made me feel old, I think the people in there need to calm down a bit

 

[SweetNick]

Well, I'm the opposite. I go to chat frequently, and yeah, we've got our share of numbskulls who want to jump in your pants the minute oyu log in, but there are people who do just sit and shoot the shit, ya just need to find them. I think the thing that seperates the people on the boards from those in the chat is the chat people seem much more paranoid to express themselves. I'm slowly making my transition to the boards and I do more reading than posting as I like to feel everyone out as well as sometimes I've just not much to add as it seems most people cover it.

Don't worry Bri, you're not the only one who gets weirded out in there, and hell I keep going back after a year.

 

[nitengale]

We obviously need to seek out Nick. How sweet are you anyway?

 

[dza]

i suppose nick is preety sweet
but nick, arsenal sucks, lol

 

[Dillinger]

I used to go into chat fairly regularly before I discovered the boards which I find infinitely more interesting.

What I've learned... yes, lots of garbage and I'm sure the women get it worse than men. In fact, I know they do - when speaking to various friends there they would tell me about the non stop propositions and messages they were getting.

I feel kind of bad that I haven't been back to lit chat in quite a while because I made some friends there. But those who are friends also have my email addy and can write me. And I see some of them here on the BB sometimes as well.

What I liked most about chat was that when you did make friends it was nice to be able to have a "rt" private conversation with them. Or even be in a room with a couple friends and have a conversation - rather than waiting here for someone to make it back into a thread to post a response - which could take anywhere from minutes to days (to never).

Of course there is also AIM and ICQ and MSN and Yahoo where one can have "rt" chat. Which I do, with friends I've made on the bb and in chat.

There has been a long history (well - as long as I've been here anyway, which is not that long) of people complaining about others using the BB as a substitute for chat. Meaning "hello how are you threads." That's another long story... long debate. Bottom line always is - participate in the ones you want to and ignore the others. But I will say that trying to use the BB for chat is a VERY poor imitation of an instant messaging program.

There is a type of online interaction that sits somewhere inbetween the BB and chat. This was pioneered, at least in a very relaxed sexually themed manner by "Bianca" (and her trolls) in the early days of the web. bianca.com still exists but its not what it used to be. It was follwed by Banana Chat and the Plantation and then a whole slew of sites - some of which still exist and many others that came later.

One of the best, in my opinion, is SOI (and not just because it was created by a friend of mine... *smile*) SOI= State of Insanity... http://soi.hyperchat.com

This type of chat uses a posting box just like at the BB but revolves around "rooms" (some general, some themed) Where your post appears immediately and other's respond to you immediately. Unlike the chat function here the posts are stored and you can read back through not just minutes and hours but days of conversation. You can also create private rooms as well as general rooms. There is an instant messaging function as well called "whisper"...

Anyway - this wasn't meant to be a testimonial for SOI... Even though I'm a lifetime member I pretty much spend all my online time HERE instead of there...

What this post was meant to be was a description of the different types of communication options there are and what purposes each serves best.

[Edited by Dillinger on 04-03-2001 at 11:46 AM]

 

[SweetNick]

We obviously need to seek out Nick. How sweet are you anyway?

At the moment, as sweet as the orange sherbert I'm having.

 

[Mistress]

Mmm can I have a taste?

 

[cymbidia]

I was giggling madly through most of the posts to this thread. Thanks for the lift!

I've done a lot of chatting in my years online. I've never been in the one here (though i'm going sometime soon just to see if it's really THAT bad).

Anyway, i've done a lot of online, RT chatting in various venues (IRC, Chatropolis, BayMOO, Yahoo Chats, IRC, etc). I've learned something about "chat culture", if it may be so characterized.

For instance, all chats have people who visit regularly and provide the major influences as to the unspoken codes of behavior. Just as this BB has rules that govern what we may do and say, and the manner in which the BB is overseen, so do chats. Those rules contribute to the overall culture of this BB in the same way that the unspoken and unwritten rules, rules that are mostly adhered to by those who visit often, delineate the culture of ALL online chats, BB's, MUD's, etc.

There are millions of "places" one can access on the web. Many places have some kind of interactive features, be they BB's or more immediate chat features, that allow us to read, listen, speak, learn, (pretend to) do, as we interact with other people. All these places have their own culture, just as all RT places have thier own culture. Any place anywhere near WriterDom in the deep south, for example, would be much different in most ways than anywhere near Laurel in San Diego. (Okay, McDonalds is the same everywhere. I'm not sure that's a good thing, either.) So are chats different from each other.

All chats have those who wait for fresh meat (best anaolgy, sorry) to appear. All chats have the wise elders, the playful faction, and those who are perpetually angry. All chats have a focus and a purpose, even if it's simply to hijack someone with whom to share steamy interactive fantasy, commonly known as having csex.

As a new person in a chat, if you've done your looking around and you know you want to stay, the best thing to do is hang out and listen, quietly interjecting a comment every so often just to make your presence known. Don't try to be funny. Don't try to grab the limelight. Just hang, let your name come to be known, and be polite to the natives. They'll start talking to you eventually.

Chats don't do anything for me anymore. The population in them is often more transient than i need, and the attention spans are kinda short. I don't regret any of the time i've spent in chats, or any of my previous net homes, for that matter. As a result of my stays in other places, i've got an active email list that includes friends from almost every place i've ever stayed for awhile, including chats. My av, for example, was made for me almost 5 years ago by a friend from a Chatropolis chat, someone with whom i'm still in touch. I've met, f2f, a number of these important-to-me people, too. That's always nice. Well, okay, except the time the "friend" appeared on my doorstep out of the blue and without any notice. That was sorta scary. (Don't give out much personal info, boys and girls. You really do *not* know who i am or most of the other people who will read your words, and there are some real kooks out there.)

Chats are like BB's which are like IRC groups and ICQ groups and all the rest. You gotta know the culture in any of them to be a part of the party, to get as much as you give, and, importantly, to know when it's time to go.

 

[cymbidia]

One of the best, in my opinion, is SOI (and not just because it was created by a friend of mine... *smile*) SOI= State of Insanity... http://soi.hyperchat.com

This type of chat uses a posting box just like at the BB but revolves around "rooms" (some general, some themed) Where your post appears immediately and other's respond to you immediately. Unlike the chat function here the posts are stored and you can read back through not just minutes and hours but days of conversation. You can also create private rooms as well as general rooms. There is an instant messaging function as well called "whisper"...

Your SOI sounds a lot like the MUD's (Multi User Dimensions/Dungeons) that were popular in the early to mid-90's. One often acquired some basic, easy-to-learn programming skill in such places in order to do more than walk through the landscape as someone else had defined it. In those places, you could build your own house, your own city, your own world, decorate it as you pleased, and populate it with like-minded people.

It was fun.

 

[DarlingBri]

Cym...

MUD MOO and MUSH There are some blasts from my past!

Personally, I think Lit Chat appears to suffer from a derth (sp?) of "wise elders" - unless the Daddies count. These people seemed to me to all be very new, not used to anything like vhat acronyms or even the concept of IRC. I believe a new generation of chatters has emerged, and they may be on a sub-AOL level. A tragedy I could never before have imagined.

--Bri

[Edited by DarlingBri on 04-03-2001 at 12:22 PM]

 

[Dillinger]

Cym, Bri - yes, very much like MUDS... though the muds, moo's, etc... I remember go back to telnet and you did have to know some simple commands and all...

SOI and places like it are web based and therefore more graphically oriented though a basic knowlege of simple html commands is useful (just like using bold here and posting img, etc...)

 

[DarlingBri]

LOL

Telnet is still around, you know

 

[indyweasel]

Telnet.

Doesnt that word bring back some memories from college..

 

[cymbidia]

Cym, Bri - yes, very much like MUDS... though the muds, moo's, etc... I remember go back to telnet and you did have to know some simple commands and all...

Yeh, i telnetted into BayMOO. (Is there still an existant telnet??? Why would it still be around?)

Gods it was fun!
Playing on the net was such a ***new*** thing back then, remember?
I felt like an adventurer in a Brave New World, as if a universe of people, thought, communication, and adventure had just opened to me.

 

[cymbidia]

Re: LOL

Telnet is still around, you know

What's is being used for these days?
I thought it died out in the mid-90's.

 

[DarlingBri]

Re: Re: LOL

What's is being used for these days?
I thought it died out in the mid-90's.

God, everything. It's probably not popular in the general Internet population, but certainly it's being extensively used to run the Internet (and other networks) behind the scenes.

I use it for everything from chat to BBSing to logging into various servers remotely to maintain them and run command line operations. Telnet is light, fast, free and installed on every respectable operating system.

Oh, and you can get it for Windows, too.