I started checking out chat rooms before when I felt bored but after meeting interesting and kind people online, it became a habit for me to check out chat rooms and interact with people.   Now I visit chat rooms most of the time so I can chat with my friends and meet other people from different parts of the world and learn about their language, their culture and the lovely places on their countries. Sharing stories and ideas with other people specially people not from your own country is a lot of fun because you do not only learn various facts about them, you also get varied opinions which makes chatting more interesting. Through chatting, you get to meet people coming from different backgrounds and nationalities and you learn things from them like their arts, literature and their ways and norms without even travelling to the country they are in. Most of my friends abroad prefer chatting because it is way cheaper for us to chat than make a long distance call and talk on the phone because at least with chatting, we can do it anytime of the day without worrying for off peak hours or per minute charges. Some people are hesitant to go to chat rooms and make friends because they hear horrible chat stories but I think that everyone is smart enough to know if a person on the other side is worth chatting to or not. There are a lot of opportunities in chat rooms wherein you can socialize and meet interesting and cool people and If you just know how to find people whom you can interact with, you will really have a good time chatting specially if you’re open to learn about new things. With the help of chat rooms, I gained a lot of online friends who are mostly from other countries all of whom I still constantly chat with whenever I’m online.

{January 22, 2012}