Sometimes you want to find someone to talk with online. It’s an odd hour of the day, or night, or people aren’t reachable and all you’re getting voice mail. And you don’t want a solicitation for an escape kind of thing. A genuine conversation.
Yes, there’s the random kind of chat, a la chatroulette. Doesn’t count as conversation.
Where can you find a live chat room with real people for real conversations any time?
There’s people on IRC all the time. One of the search engines for IRC chat rooms is http://searchirc.com/ and without needing to download and install an IRC client, there’s http://www.mibbit.com/ to access an IRC chat room through a web browser.
And there’s Talk City http://talkcity.com and http://www.everywherechat.com/
There are also chat rooms in those instant messaging networks, like http://chat.aim.com, Yahoo Messenger chat rooms,
Any others out there?