Yahoo! Chat

I'd rather watch McGowan, Doorgunner and AryanDan perform "Waiting for Godot" than visit Yahoo! Chat.

Yahoo! Chat is the worst piece of crap ever!!! The chatrooms are full of bots. You will rarely, if ever, see an actual human being in any of the chatrooms. And if you're "lucky" enough to come across a human being, more than likely it will be an Indian man, no offense.

This is a great place to talk to people. Its fun and people really respect what you say. I love it.

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This got my typing speed up about 20wpm. Just say no or else you'll find yourself having meaningless converations with people who you really don't care about.

I remember back in the day when yahoo was a great place to chat. Any room you went into, there was real people in there chatting. Now its just infested with bots, hackers, and spammers. Its a shame a multi billion dollar I.T. / internet company can't find a way to control the situation. Too little too late I'm afraid.

Completely unusable as it's been taken over by spam/porn bots. There are very few real people chatting in any of the rooms. I used to use Yahoo chat frequently between 2001-2005, made a lot of new friends via that medium. But not anymore. You're better off using IRC if you want to actually chat with people rather than bots.

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I've been around Yahoo! Chat for about 10 years. It has really going downhill. Mainly rude and childish people. I have not ran in to any "hacker wannabes", however, I don't doubt they exist. I have seen many state that Yahoo! should do something about it, such as moderators. The problem is Yahoo! does NOT care. How do I know this? I see moderators all the time in the rooms (look for the @sbcglobal) in the handles. They sit there, allows childish insults and flaming to go on, allow spamming in the rooms, and do nothing about it. What's the purpose of a moderator that does not moderate? I'd stay away from Yahoo! chat, it's worthless!

Just went to Yahoo chat after being away for over a year, well seems I shouldn't have bothered, it's nothing but bot's and spam now. So make my rating 0 stars

I do agree that there are a lot of vulgar in chat.But folks...do not blame only the indians and arabs for this.Afterall, everybody are humans..These things happen everywhere in the globe.

too good

well ivisit the chat room 3times 1year ago and it was ok,dont have to much to say some were good somewere jerks

It's like the Wild West of the Internet, you've got spammers, scammers, wannabe hackers, booters, perverts, bots you name it Yahoo has it. Atleast they made the minimum age requirement 18 for joining now and log i.p.'s of all users....dont know how effective that is, it's still the same.

Unfortunately, the bots' and IM spammers have taken control of Yahoo chat as well as other chatrooms. Yahoo needs to do something about that.

Yahoo chat is almost a complete waste of space, and mostly because it is a free service still. Not necessarily Yahoo's fault. I would never spend another minute chatting on the yahoo chat forum again. The whole place is filled with sickos and wannabe hackers. Sometimes a wannabe hacker is worse than the real thing, because they want to prove themselves so bad they don't care what gets damaged in the process. Avoid Yahoo chat if you can...

Don't do it.

I luv to go to www.yahoo.com to chat.

I'm a 6 year online veteren of chat rooms. As a female, I would strongly urge other females NOT to use Yahoo chat. Aside from it being full of bots, spammers, pedos, pic traders and cammers, it is also ground zero for men posing as women. I also have to agree with the comment about middle and near eastern males on Yahoo chat. My experience has found them to be consistantly rude, crude and condescending.

I have never been a big online chatter; however, Yahoo! Chat seems to be one of the better sites for this service. There are literally hundreds of rooms dedicated to different topics, including sports, movies, music, politics, etc, so there is obviously something for everyone. Nevertheless, as with any chat room, there is abuse of discretion as to language and off topic chat. Unfortunately, being one of the most active chat sites, the Yahoo! Chat rooms suffer from a lot of cham (ie chat spam), and there seems to be a limit as to how many chatters can be in one room. Finally, Yahoo! features voice chat, webcams, and the choice of Chat 2.0 or Java.

It's no better or worse than MSN Chat. Anywhere but Yahoo Chat and MSN Chat has a very low population/is empty. Completely agree you should avoid Indians and Arabs.

It's a good service, but it has been plagued recently with a lot of vulgur content. I don't chat very often, but I figured that I'd check this out once. Boy, what an experience. I think that this is merely a haven for rejects who haven't even gotten a grade school education. Yahoo!Chat's problem is that there is no way to keep people from insulting or PMing other people. There should definately be a moderator or something to keep order in the chatrooms.

I don't chat anyway, but I was really disappointed with the web cam chat. I think yahoo should have it like webcamnow instead of manually clicking on each name to see their webcam.

Makes you think indians are very net savvy.

Great place as long as you avoid chatting to Indians and Arabs.

Probably the rudest people after Survivor Chat(man! can't stand those guys over at Survivor CBS Chat). Whenever I come to Yahoo!chat, theres always some people PMing me, advertising some porn website, or Ill get Indians who PM me and tell me they shall rape my sister. I think there should be a room moderator, or stricter rules in Yahoo!chat, if not, Im not going back there again. :P

Yahoo Chat is the last place you'd want to chat with online. The people here are so rude, and it's so confusing. They give you this tiny screen with 30 members on it, and you have to figure out who you are and people can break into your computer and steal your credit card cash! It's true, and you have to stay away.

Very easy. HTML and Java formats. Much better than Collegeclub.com

Yahoo!Chat is just fine but I don't know anybody that chats on Yahoo often. All of my friends are on AOL or Instant messanger and I prefer that over Yahoo!Chat.

I like this web site because it enables people from all over the world to talk to each other. It has many different topics and different chat rooms to fit everyone's interests.

This is not as simple to use as AOL instant messanger. Because you have to wait for people to authorize you and everything. But it's not as popular therefore if you want to only talk/chat with certain people it can be more personal.

Yahoo Chat! is a great website that people should use if they ever find themselves bored. Just go to Yahoo Chat! and talk to interesting people that you might make friends with. This site will give you a sense of excitement and fun being able to talk to all kinds of people online.

Being a fan of AOL's chatting, online community, I was actually quite surprised to see that Yahoo offered, for free, the same goodies such as instant messages and profiles. My only disappointment was to not find so large a community as AOL offers, but for the price of nothing, this is a cool place to chat away and kill some time.

This is a pretty decent site for chatting. It is good and has voice chat as well. However, there isn't anything that makes this site stand out.

Great site and chat system to make a lot of friends. Offers many fun activities online.

This site is not as friendly as an AOL user chat room. The variety of chat room topics is very good, but I don't think I've encountered the right people. Yahoo!Chat should make more of an effort to censor unruly chat people.

This is okay, but not as good as AOL. Plenty of topics to choose from. Chat rooms can always be fun, but too many interruptions from porn site advertisers. Good to meet some people around the world.

I like this site because I get all my information from this site. You can find just about everything you need to know from this site. I can look up important things or fun things. I spend about two hours on this site when I'm not busy.

I feel chat sites in general need to be monitored in better ways. It is one thing to monitor a site and another to enforce rules. I'm not saying Yahoo!Chat, but I've been in Yahoo Games where you can also chat, and many people argue and call names instead of chat.

The place to chat is at Yahoo!Chat. Meeting people online is a popular thing to do and even having relationships is good. PM messaging is really good when you want privacy with the person you are chatting with. I even like their voice chat because I'm curious as to what they sound like. It is always fun to meet and chat with people in Yahoo. You might get lucky and find the right person for you...but always be careful! You never know who you'll bump into after the chat!

Cool! Rad! Awesome! All that stuff. Just a few examples; profiles with pics, webpages, instant messaging.

It's good. It's a different kind of chat room. There is no way to tell if someone you know is online and you want to chat with them.

I have learned a lot from people that I don't even know through Yahoo!Chat. There are different kinds of rooms (chat rooms) and you can just go to one that you like and you can talk about everything. It is very good, and you also can talk live with other people.

It's a good site to talk to people you don't know. I think it's good cuz you got voice chat too. I'll recommend it to lots of people, especially teens!

Yahoo!Chat is cool because you get to meet and talk to people that you can't see, so I recommend that everybody who can get on the site please do.

Yahoo is just an all around great website. The chat room is excellent. Very often you meet interesting people.

I tried to get in once and it took a long time. When I finally got it to work, it was cool and there were lots of people. Basically, all chats are the same to me.

I gave this a 2 because I don't usually go to the site, but when I went it was just people messing around.

Great resource for networking with people of similar interests. However, there are a lot of jerks who jump into chats without knowing about topics or netiquette.