At first online chat rooms were going to change the world. Might would have too if the internet wasn’t new and if it was known and understood how to manage large numbers of people talking to each other in real time.
Just in case should anyone figure out how, along comes NBC and their “To Catch a Predator,” series which made a lot of people quit chat rooms lest their family and friends think they were trying to pick up a child.
MSN closed their chat service in October, 2006. If memory serves, they said that the declining numbers of chatters willing to pay a subscription was costing them too much money.
The way I remember it though was that MSN chat after the subscription part began in October, 2003 was like it always was — just smaller.
The management was horrible and did things that convinced me that they were intentionally sabotaging chat in order to lose enough subscribers to have an excuse to close it.
The funny thing is that right now at PHREIK chat the current management and ownership is doing the exact thing as MSN.
At PHREIK the management and hosting staff is so incompetent and sleazy right now, that, I see no hope for this crew to ever grow the chat line out of its current massive slump – oh yeah, that they originally caused. Time will of course tell if I am right. Meanwhile, it does make for a good mystery just exactly what is going on there.
The ability of chat rooms to change the world still exists and every once in awhile you can catch a glimpse of it.
Every once in awhile the media will claim that a chat room was behind this or that or that someone killed themselves live in a chat room while the chatters cheered and now they are going all out to associate chat rooms with being mixed up in terrorism.
If the read the “news” report you will see that it’s not even really about chat rooms at all but people see the headline and suggestion implanted.
The point of this post, if there is one, is that chat rooms already have a lot going against them like the government and the media so why do they tolerate incompetent management too? For that matter, why do chatters?
Originally Posted on August 16, 2013 at:
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