Chatting in a question versus Chat, why do you do it?

I go in the chatrooms to chat. I rarely chat in a question.

:O I just discovered this chat thing. I think it’s fine for people chat in groups in social and meta questions, and shouldn’t chat in general questions, and chat one to one via comment or the chat room thingy. I don’t really know, that’s just the impression I got.

Chat rooms seem chaotic to me.

One could open a chat room and invite one or two friends – there are many to choose from.

I don’t feel like I know everyone as friends yet, I’m just getting to. I like to answer a Q and talk about that specific topic.

Do you think meta questions should answer the question or be free to chat about it socially? Fluther doesn’t seem to have any regulations on the topic of answers that I can see.

^ It’s best to put all your thoughts in one post – just saying. It’s fluther-quette not to double/triple post – we call it hijacking and it’s poor form. You can always edit and add. If you edit, you can’t use the @ sign, so we sometimes write Edit: Blah Blah @whatshisface.

The way I see Meta is fluther-based Questions – with a Social feel.

I don’t usually chat in a q. Or atleast, I try not to. It kind of just pisses me off when a discussion is ruined by a bunch of people babbling off topic.

I am a perfectionist. I like to edit. I also like to read a developing threqad. Basically, I love the written word. I guess chat is just too spontaneous for me.

^You didn’t edit this one, bud.;-)

I find the chat room interface is full of annoying bugs so irritating that it is unusable.

Not much on “small talk!” I stay here…been to the chatroom, maybe 3 times!

I feel awkward in the Chat Room. It is like people are listening to my conversations. I don’t know what to say when others are already talking.

I, too, find the rhythm and pace of a chatroom disturbing. It seems to me to be all “Andrew’s here”, “Hi Andrew”, “Andrew’s gone.” Maybe it’s a generational thing. I would rather exchange a few quips within a social thread or converse with one person via PMs.

I don’t chat in any thread. Somehow I find it annoying if people just chat in my thread but not answering the question,polluting the whole thread with irrelevant discussion.

Chatrooms are scary and confusing.
I don’t think I know anyone well enough to chat? or maybe I do?
Chatrooms are scary.

My typing has gone to hell….it is slow, awkward and frustrating and I feel somewhat under pressure trying to keep up in a chat room. I like the more leisurely pace of a thread, when it seems appropriate (if not, PMs also work well for me).
But fuck it @zenele, I’ll come chat where ever the hell you are pouring the good scotch!-
shit, I’m getting drunk!
See ya…..Gary/wtf

I drop into chat fairly often, but it is so, to me, boring. Usually there is either no one talking at all, long lags between comments, or a couple people talking about something that I have no knowledge of, while everyone else is either silent or ignored.

To me, chat means just that. Not to sit in the room and stare at the names that pop up and vanish.

I lurve Gary. Scotch all around in the chatroom – first one in PM me.

I’m too off the wall for the chat room. i can focus better when I’m just typing. and I dont bounce around as much.

Anytime I’ve ever tried any type of chat whether here on Fluther or another site there’s either a compatibility problem with whatever device I’m using or it’s just too chaotic.

So I just never got into the rhythm or habit of using it. Even doing IM stuff with other friends the few times I’ve tried it was also chaotic even with just three people.

And if it’s just me and a friend it just makes so much more sense to just pick up the phone and talk.

I mean, it just seems incredibly stupid for me to be using an iPhone to type on unless it’s absolutely necessary.

It’s probably a generational thing as young people today seem to prefer just the opposite.

I saw a cute little episode in a tv program recently in which two teenagers are sitting in the living room with their laptops IMing each other to the mystified look on the parents face. It was really cute.

But I much prefer using my phone to talk rather than type. That’s why I’m paying that monthly bill.

@janbb I hear someone was talking about me?

Well, you do fly in and out of the chatoom so fast, andrew!

it sounds like Chat would be fun; I’ve never been there.