edscissors's blog
You young people and your "chatroom"!
Oh dear - I tried really hard this evening but I could make neither head nor tail of our MF chatroom!
Once I saw how to do so, I exchanged two quick series of messages (chats) with two good friends who happened to be online ... but with whom the same messages might well have been exchanged, though maybe a bit slower, in the usual way.
I sent a couple of greetings to the assembled company but didn't understand the next few minutes' messages at all: did they refer to what I had written? Were they part of some ongoing conversation of which I had no knowledge? For me, gibberish. Sorry, all!
I try really hard with "Infotech". One of the guys with whom I chatted in "CHAT" is in fact older than me but apparently had no trouble in decipering what had been written in the minutes after my chat-message. Well done, "Peter".
I think I'll just stick with the old-fashioned way. I send you a message ... you reply ... I respond if necessary ... remember? Our MF site seems to work pretty well in this old-fashioned way ... but I shall certainly click again on "chat" one day and maybe hope to make some sense of it despite the fact that I am SO old (61).
Edward
Spruceman (55 )
10/22/2017 8:12 PMOverall, I like the chatroom here a lot. Like many things in life, it has its ups and downs, and vastly differing users even for the same hour, the same day, different proportions of the content relevant to fighting. It's another good example of that "chaos theory' which people cite clusters of vehicles and barren stretches along a given highway
Vanman (87 )
10/22/2017 12:52 PMI like the chat room but use it more for individual chats. The main ‘room’ does seem random in terms of flow. Are there any sub rooms in there for small group chats?
TiteFig4 (1)
10/22/2017 5:18 PM(In reply to this)
You can actually create a "sub room" for small-group chats...
Admin
10/22/2017 8:44 AMGet off my lawn!
MCRLON30UK (53)
10/25/2017 4:43 AM(In reply to this)
I was literally just about to type this just.
NJWoodbridge (139)
10/22/2017 3:55 PM(In reply to this)
LOL. How are the teeth?
osakarob (79 )
10/22/2017 2:32 AMI'm pretty sure that the golden era of internet chat rooms was from about 1993 - 2003. Commercial ones like MSN, AOL, and Yahoo shut down by the early 2010s. Just curious, but why did you never experiment with them in your 40s or 50s?
I actually like the MF chat function because of its retro feel.
edscissors (31 )
10/22/2017 12:50 AMThanks, NJWoodridge. I've not given up!
NJWoodbridge (139)
10/22/2017 12:49 AMLOL. The "old-fashioned" would be more along the lines of pen and paper or the telephone. The chat room does take some getting used to, but you'll get used to it the more you're in there.