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Posted by lonelygirl on May 6, 2004, at 19:06:46

In reply to What is Open?, posted by DissociativeJane on May 6, 2004, at 9:27:56

DissociativeJane, I know you've already figured out how to get into the chat room, but as a Babble Open regular, I thought I'd take this opportunity to give some info and tips on the chat room, for anyone who's interested...

You have to join Babble Open in yahoo groups to get in the chat room (I believe you can get in without joining if you have yahoo messenger, but I don't know how to do that!). You can join by going to:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/psycho-babble-open/

Once you join, when you go to that page (at the above link), you'll see links on the left-hand side that say Home, Messages, Chat, Files, Photos, Links... (etc.), and you just click on the "Chat" link to get to the chat room, or you can go directly to:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/psycho-babble-open/chat

Just a heads up: there are a lot of, well, technical difficulties with the chat room. It can be kind of frustrating! It will disconnect you without warning sometimes (you might have to refresh the page to get back in), and it does it to other people too, so they might leave without warning and take a minute to get back. Also, for some reason, it sometimes lists people in the chat room who aren't really there, so it will look like they're in the room, but they won't say anything. Once in a while, you may experience a problem where you'll type something and hit send, but it never shows up on the screen; you can fix that either by refreshing the page, or by typing a colon (:) at the beginning of the line.

Chat room activity is kind of hit-or-miss; I usually check a few times during the afternoon and evening, and a lot of the time nobody else is there. The best time is usually in the evening. I'd say most of the chat occurs between about 8 and midnight, eastern time (adjust accordingly considering your own time zone). Sometimes, people will post on social to say that they're in the chat room, or you can post to say you're there -- you just have to wait a while for people to see your message and come in the room. Some people use the same (or similar) yahoo ID as their posting name on Babble, but others use a completely different name.

Once you get to the chat room, don't be shy! Just jump right in. One of the advantages of a chat room is that you can be involved in 2 or 3 (or more) different conversations at once, and "interrupting" isn't rude. You may arrive in the chat room in the middle of a conversation; understand that this doesn't mean people are "ignoring" you just because they continue to talk about whatever the topic was. You can join in the conversation, or you can bring up something you want to talk about, or you can just watch until the conversation turns to something you want to talk about. If you haven't been in chat rooms before, you'll probably find that it's rather different than face-to-face interactions, and it can take a little while to get used to it.


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