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Facebook’s Next Big Thing: Bringing Back That AOL Chatroom Feeling
Consumerist ^
| 23 October 2014
| Kate Cox
Posted on 10/24/2014 7:13:34 AM PDT by Lorianne
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:13:34 AM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
more ways to waste time for the young.
go outside and play or skateboard, anything !!! just get outside.
To: Lorianne
Reminds me of the old days of Mirc chat and Usenet newsgroups. Good times...good times.
To: circlecity
One thing the older formats lacked was clutter.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:19:55 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Chuzzlewit
continued exploitation of narcissism. These friggin kids grow up lacking real world experience and interaction....forever stuck in a quasi adolescent mind set...like you said - get some fresh air, ride a 4 wheeler - go fishing - talk to a face
To: Lorianne
I used to love those old AOL rooms...they were kicking back when I first got online in 1998. I met some good online friends there...I’m still in an email loop with two of them, one of whom is a longtime Freeper.
The politics and religion rooms were fun....chairs were always flying in those.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:21:29 AM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: HiTech RedNeck
One thing the older formats lacked was clutter.
LOL, that was my first thought: an old AOL chatroom but chock full of Facebook advertising and other BS so its practically useless.
I don't understand why people still use Facebook after they've admitted conducting social and psychological experiements on their users without their knowledge or explicit consent.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:23:28 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(They always said that the living would envy the dead.)
To: Lorianne
I always liked being in the NFL chatroom on gamedays, sitting in front of the TV with a laptop in my lap.
To: circlecity
Reminds me of the “chat room wars” on Yahoo chat just after 9/11.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:23:45 AM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: Lorianne
Ah, this idea looks so nice.
To: Lorianne
Sounds to me like just another IRC network. There are already many of those, and thousands of chatrooms. Web-based IRC clients have been around a long time, too.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:27:11 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: HiTech RedNeck
I will say that there is one tiny thing I think FR could take from Facebook, though: I think FR needs a "Like" button or a "Thumbs Up" button.
There are lots of posts I wish I could just click a button to express my support of and appreciation for without having to actually clutter up the thread with a repetitive post.
Maybe an "Amen" button.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:27:33 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(They always said that the living would envy the dead.)
To: Lorianne
Make it easier for criminals, pedophiles, and ISIS recruiters to use. Sounds swell!
To: circlecity
I always liked being in the NFL chatroom on gamedays, sitting in front of the TV with a laptop in my lap. LOL! I was in a football chat room talking smack to the Vikings fans. That was the day Gary Andersen missed a field goal to send the Vikings into the Super Bowl. That was the year Denver won their 2nd straight SB.
To: CatherineofAragon
Reminds me of a caller on Rush Limbaugh about 20 years ago. This woman was discussing some political issue and Rush asked where do you get this information? She said “The AOL chatrooms last night! Weren’t you on there?” Rush said no I wasn’t on AOL!
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:28:26 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
(Obama: First ever POTUS to be retired while still in office.)
To: caligatrux
BTTT served that purpose in a way
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:28:34 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: caligatrux
Some of the newest clutter and scripting laden sites are really trials of patience.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:30:23 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Rennes Templar
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:39:15 AM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: HiTech RedNeck
Agreed. Like those “Top Ten” articles that you have to wait for everything to load, including all the video advertisements, and then realize you’re only seeing #10 of the top ten, and you have to click to the next page, and wait for everything to load again, just to see #9.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:39:39 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(They always said that the living would envy the dead.)
To: CatherineofAragon
Yes, I really liked them too. Townhall used to have a really nice one back in the day.
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posted on
10/24/2014 8:27:55 AM PDT
by
jocon307
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