Chatrooms.NET - Your Complete Guide to Online Chat Rooms and Internet Communication

Chatrooms.NET reviews Internet chat websites and lists our reviews in categories that include both age groups and interests. Our reviewed chat rooms range from music, love and romance singles chat, to specific age groups eg. teen chat rooms, 20's, 30's, 40's chat etc. Included are chat rooms that use voice chat and websites where you can use voice and webcams (cam to cam). For the mature minded we also list adult chat rooms including Gay and Lesbian rooms. In fact you'll find chat rooms for virtually every interest and age group at Chatrooms.NET

Chat with Family and Friends Online Using Internet Chat rooms, Webcams, Cell Phones, and Email.

Chat Rooms - The term chat room, or chatroom, is used to describe forms of online synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology ranging from real-time online chat by using freely available instant messaging services and online discussion boards to fully immersive graphical social environments.

Online chatting and social networking is one of the main areas that the Internet is used for today. Chat rooms allow you to engage in live, real-time conversations with people around the block (local chat) or around the world at the same time. The majority of todays online live chat rooms can give people a wonderful opportunity to make new friends anywhere in the world, and keep in touch with loved ones.

Chat rooms usually have stringent rules that they require users to follow in order to maintain integrity and safety for their users. Particularly in rooms for children, rules usually do not allow users to use offensive language, or to promote hate mail, violence and other negative issues. The term chatiquette is a variation of netiquette (chat netiquette) and describes basic rules of online communication.

Discussion Boards - Chat Rooms are an area online where people from all around the globe meet to discuss certain topics, live and in real-time. Discussion Boards, however, contain conversations started by a particular online community, a place or forum where community members can submit comments to existing conversations and start new conversations. Discussion Boards are not live, or real-time, communications like chat rooms are.

Internet Email - Chatting via Email is a much older communication method than Chat Rooms, ARPANet, or the Internet (History of Email). Email was never invented but evolved from very simple beginnings. Early email was just a small advance on what we know these days as a file directory - it just put a message in another user's directory in a spot where they could see it when they logged in.

3D Chat Rooms - Visual 3D chat rooms (Also known as Virtual Dating) adds graphics to the chat experience, in either 2D or 3D (employing virtual reality technology). These are characterized by using a graphic representation of the user (avatar) that can be moved about a graphic background or in a graphic environment.

Cell Phone Chat Rooms - Cell phone users have been sending SMS text messages for years, and today many phone companies and carriers are expanding this communication ability to unite people with friends and strangers using Cell Phone Chat Rooms and social networking communities. Instead of sending text or e-mail messages to friends via cell phone, mobile chat rooms let users interact with people of similar interests.

Adult Chat rooms

Adult chat rooms are very popular today and can be a great deal of fun to many users. This form of chat is usually a lot more relaxed than normal straight, or clean, chat rooms, in that adult topics, including sex chat and sexuality in general, can be discussed without being booted from the room.

Most adult chat rooms give you the ability to meet, and talk live with guys and girls from your hometown and other cities from around the world via voice chat. Most rooms allow you to click a username to private chat one to one with other chatters. Don't forget to ask the person in the main chat area first if they wish to go private.

Sexting is where people send digitised nude or otherwise sexually explicit photos of themselves electronically to be viewed by others, it is becoming increasingly common for chat room users to exchange nude or sexually explicit photos. In addition some people who visit chat rooms use them as a place to experience online sex, also known as cybersex or computer love.

Chat rooms are sometimes rated similar to movie ratings; eg. G rated rooms have no bad language or nudity, R rated rooms may contain foul language but no nudity, and A rated rooms may contain foul language and/or nudity. You should prevent children from viewing A rated chat rooms by using a parental control program. The adult content filter prevents the listing of A (adults only) rated chat rooms, which may contain content that unsuitable for chatters under 18, or those offended by naughty language or nudity.

Webcam Chat Rooms

Today you can find many live webcam chat rooms online that allow you to see, hear, and chat with people from all over the world. Using the power of Flash-based video streaming with the characteristics of IRC chat rooms you now have the ability to live voice chat while viewing your chat partners webcam. Flash technology provides crystal clear webcam images as well as voice chat.

The majority of the cam chat rooms we have reviewed are free to both broadcast and receive streaming audio and video. It is also possible to view other members webcams, and hear what they are saying, even if you do not have a cam of your own attached to your computer. What can you do on these cam sites? You could invite friends and family to join you in a private room, or just hang out in the public video lobby and meet new people to share your views and have fun.

Adult Webcam Chat Sites

Adult videochat websites, (also known as adult webcam chat sites), provide live webcam striptease and sex shows in in two main categories, group shows and one on one shows using computer webcams. These cam sites often cater for users preferences by providing content in genres such as amateur cam girls, gay cams, fetish, lesbians, swingers, group sex, and couples, to name just a small fraction of the adult niche cams section.

A very large number of camgirls that work from home as a videochat model come from countries such as Asia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and more recently the Philippines where the average weekly wage is extremely low.

Using cam sites targeted towards adult members, generally known as Adult Webcams, you can invite your friends to join a private room and talk intimate via webcam, the opportunities are virtually endless.

Mobile, or cellphone, videochat services are starting to open the way for videochat companies to capture a new area of the adult market. The advent of the more sophisticated 3G mobile handsets such as Apple's iPhone 4 and the new Android based cellphones means that cam to phone broadcasting technology is now not only possible, but happening all around us.