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Can You Do Live Chat?
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08 Oct 2020, 2:17 pm

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For years, I assumed that "chat" meant verbal. I have recently found it being used to describe a dedicated written exchange for tech support with time constraints, and it is awful; far worse than email. Now, reading this thread, I suspect there is also a verbal mess going by the same name. Would the OP please define their terms?


Recently, like since the late '90s? IRC based chatrooms were common back then, that's when that definition became the primary one.


What's IRC?
I have never been on a "chat" with more than two people, but I'm sure that the tech support folk are multi-tasking.
I don't put up with people talking over each other, or conversation in a noisy place. If it gets hard to follow, I shrug, point to my ears, and leave.


IRC (internet relay chat) is a standard developed for chat. It's mostly obsolete now but it was ubiquitous at one time.
It allows for both rooms and one on one conversations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat


From the description, I see that I have one friend who used that, but I was never invited, and because of the confusion over the need for a microphone, I never gave it a second thought.
One reason I could never participate on Facebook is the lack of gradations between "Stranger" and "Friend." If they'd had a "slight acquaintance" description, that would have matched the usual situation.


I don't recall ever using it with a mic, but other types of chat allow for that option.

I've never used Facebook, but I can see what you're saying.


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08 Oct 2020, 3:43 pm

Internet relay chat has various options I believe it chat just be as simple as writing back and forth to one another with options of various other people joining in . Chatting back and forth line by typed line. Or. Microphone ina option as well , but that uses up much bandwidth on the chat app you re using . You can segregate chat into various rooms
(Threads) as defined by the title of the room , with options for the user to display all the optional rooms to join in that specific chat . PMs. Are optional on those sites aswell . It was , is a step up from the forums. And threads type of issues , in that , your responses to statement appear almost immediately on the thread and chatters can reply almost in real times. Back and forth . Owner of the relay chat can and do moderate the thread also in real time.
Personally the Forums here are a bit more civilized way of postings. Versus chatting. Imho .


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08 Oct 2020, 4:01 pm

Yes and no in my case. I think I have been doing it on a site, but it only works for me because there are very few people on it at once and we are all on the spectrum.

When there are more people on I can't do it. I doubt I could do it at all with NTs.

The advantage of online as apposed to IRL is not having to do things that you don't want to. I may get stuck in a conversation with four or five people that I can't avoid in real life but online I can ease my way out.

So maybe I could do it, but I don't want to.


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