Analysis of Chatrooms November 2011
Appended below is an analysis of chatrooms with annotations. I seek input from you folks on other alternatives
Yahoo Chat: At one time this was the "ne plus ultra" of chat communications. It was a lively community - you could establish a chatroom of your own with ease. Then some idiots started doing naughty things - well actually nasty things and this feature was closed. So now what do we have. Canned rooms populated overwhelming by "Hi my name is Amanda I'm a senior at UCLA I have a 4.0 GPA and drive a Porsche 911. Wanna see me" Well multiply that x100 and that is a general appraisal of the place. It has both cam and voice capabilities. Caution urged this is a freaky place. You must be a Yahoo chat member. Enter it by Messenger > Yahoo Chat > Join A Room
Medstudentz : If your looking for a private place to chat with no interference from strangers, this is the place! I've monitored this off and on for maybe 5 years. I've yet encounter a human being. Text only http://medstudentz.com/chat.php
Jmeeting.com is an interesting chat system. It seems to be heavily based in Europe. I make this judgment based on the various room populations – by 9 pm Eastern the place is pretty much abandoned.Very little traffic of passersby I set up a room VirtualMedSchool and got not one visitor in two hours. No more than 300 rooms at peak hours. Most of it is adult and the overwhelming paradigm is gauking at two or three female exhibitionists by a hundred plus males. You get 3 open cams for the free version, I think 20 for the pay version. This very reminiscent of Paltalk (see below). There is no useful discussion in health/wellness groups, politics (if you call that “useful”) the only resemblance are a couple trivia groups never populated by more than a handful of intelligent folk. The profiles are poor, fonts can’t be varied in size, not sure of the sound capability. So your thinking, what good is there? 1) Its free! The opening screen looks intimidating speaking of new pay options, but forego this, opting to Register (second button top left). Once registered it offers a) list of all cam chatters by sex and the ability to see thumbnails of their cams without having to seek permission – the entire list!. The usually ration is 4:1 Male/Female with approximately 400 cams. b) Chatrooms these tend to be congregated around sexual exhibitionists with the vast majority of rooms mustering at most 5 or 6 people (usually a sole occupant). But there is some good here almost NO SPAM! An occasion message from some pseudo-disciplinarian threatening to ban any maladroit. I challenged the presiding “chief hillybilly” to ban me, in an attempt to see if it were a bluff! My challenge went unanswered. The room size must be considerable, the Sunday evening “performance of a rather haggard middle-aged celebre being showered with beer brought 140 “observers.” I’m not sure of sound or the ability to transfer files etc. IM’s are part of the chat system. The main problem is this – we cannot get most people to spell out a lucid sentence, “sic” "How r u? “ or get away from ASL PLZ. How are we going to get people to download a new chat program? I think its good and worth a try. Those of you with technical understanding will surely teach us neophytes the ins and outs. Its not all that hard. It can run concurrently with our present provider – a nice thing.
http://www.jmeeting.com/
Paltalk This is a hybrid group chat is free but you must pay for cam access. You do get like 15 seconds peeks. It has a greater number of intellectual sites. Has sound. Has censored profiles. Again like the above, the vast majority of folks are interested in “bread and circuses” looking at rotund , bored matronly women, shouting out rude comments - and being chastised by war-lord like moderators. Room moderators can ban the rowdy The sound I believe would sell this milieu to those with an interest in heart sounds and stethoscopy. It can run concurrent with other chats. Good clear voice. Not a bad choice for anyone wanting to set up an exam room or attract fellow bedwetters. Many many rooms - I suggest Adult Playground. Give it a look www.paltalk.com. Tell them Dave sent you - that will get you an ignore!
Chatropolis –Chatropolis is an adult chatroom with subchats that was incredibly popular, often having up to 2100 chatters at any given time world wide, which is impressive for one of the last prominent html based chats on the internet. It had specialty rooms The Hospital and Gynocology (their spelling not mind). A lot of "interesting people." Then the owner died (RIP Eternal rest grant unto him oh Lord may perpetual light shine upon his soul) and poof the place was dead and bought out by a firm that placed stringent rules. Gone Gone Gone.
Erotic Clinic Now here is a winner - much like Fetlife Erotic Clinic is a well run operation boasting 10,000 members of whom perhaps two hundred are active. Very active forum, subgroups of any and all stripe, e-mail, chatroom (not very active) image banks, story banks. It shines with its many forum topics. Excellent owner really keeps the place tidy. This is the "ne plus ultra" of medical play.http://erotic-clinic.zity.biz/
Skype is an underutilized highly visited phone service with one to one free communication employing excellent sound and video. www.skype.com. I simply love it for doing physical examinations. You can have multiple guests in a room but you have to pay. I like free!
Stinto This is a fairly new chatroom I think out of Germany I have done little more than pop in and pop out in checking the voracity of the link.www.stinto.net This comes out of Germany but has a translator. Very neat and clean interface. Apparently has sound capabilities and file upload abilities. No registration necessary.
MeBeam Here is an "odd duck" Like Stinto it requires no registration. Just open a room and talk. It has two opinions a multiple member (tiny images) that has no sound and a second choice of one on one with large image and good sound. Problem is the site is shaky and one tends to drift in and out of the chat. I've used it out of habit on occasion but always have that thought its gona collapse.
Cindia's Medical Chat - You meet THE weirdest people here. I sometimes think its one person assuming multiple personalities. It has a reputation for impostors still I'm drawn to it like a moth to street light on a hot summer day. Use this but remember its not real folk. Don't ever expect to hook up with anyone from here!http://www.cindiamedical.bravehost.com/
Now for your part - additions, corrections, comments, amplification all are sought
Correspond to ClinicalUSMLE (Yahoo Mail or Chat) Say Dave sent me