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Back in the days I was able to find new friends to chat to on MSN Messenger. What websites or apps exist these days where one can meet people using instant chat and/or video rather than having the time lag of a forum post response?


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 4:49 pm
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Is chat roulette still a thing?


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 4:57 pm
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Is chat roulette still a thing? I found an answer here:- https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/16381942/chatroulette-webcam-chat-male-community

Browsing the site today, you’ll find an interface slightly more sleek than the original AIM-like screen. It’s been eight years since the site’s supposed death, but a small community persists. The men who remain — and make no mistake, they are overwhelmingly men — still consider it a place to waste a little time online. Between the occasional, curious user who is truly interested in just chatting, are the ones everyone has come to expect: the on-cam men jerking off.


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 5:01 pm
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Mirc is still going right?..

Edit: I said that as a joke. Turns out it is according to wiki 😀


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 5:03 pm
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Tinder.


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 5:15 pm
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I'll try MIRC forgot about that. Chatroulette always was seedy. Basically a room of lots of people with different interests. One that's busy preferably. Can have video chat or instant chat though I suspect most of the video chat sites are similar to chatroulette.


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 5:17 pm
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As someone who has spent every day since the late 90s in IRC channels, the suggestion that IRC is dead shocks me to the core.


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 5:33 pm
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I suspect the friend-making aspect of IRC is limited these days though, as the non-nerd communities have mostly drifted to other more usable platforms.


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 5:36 pm
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Rubber_Buccaneer: I don my wizard hat and robe


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 5:40 pm
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ASL


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 6:14 pm
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Maybe

On the sofa


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 6:24 pm
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I don my wizard hat and robe

Christ on a bike, I didn't know Bloodninja had an account on here.


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 7:16 pm
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Wanna cyber? 😉


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 8:57 pm
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Kik.Tinder/PoF#FB MARKETPLACE

Choose your poison


 
Posted : 28/08/2020 11:28 pm
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What context are you wanting these friends to live in - an online world, or potentially meet up with?

I appreciate that this method might not work for everyone, maybe you're a bit socially awkward, or maybe you live somewhere where talking to strangers is not the done thing (big city?) - but I find going to the pub and just talking to people, quite often ends up with developing new friendships.

I work all over the country and tend to aim to stay in smaller places, with local boozers - currently in Upton on Severn and the new friends relationship started on night 1. 2 weeks in and I've got half a dozen new friends, we have a drink every night (I'll update the 'time to get sober thread later!!!) am going round to an old guy's house next Monday for a meal with everyone etc.

Sometimes takes a bit longer, some you stay in touch with, some you don't, but it's seen me have friends in Redcar, Wooton Bassett, Gloucestershire, St Albans. I'll pretty much strike up a conversation with anyone at the bar though.

Made a couple of friends off here also, but most people on here think I'm a tool - I'm much nicer in person 😉


 
Posted : 29/08/2020 7:42 am
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https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/this-site-is-spooky/

(11 years ago! Crikey!)


 
Posted : 29/08/2020 7:59 am
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Bloody hell, I haven't made that many friends in 57 years, currently on 1.
I'm a tool on here, but much worse in person, although I have no idea how many horses I have under my bonnet.😁


 
Posted : 29/08/2020 8:00 am

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