Yahoo Chat: An "Old" Favorite with Some Changes

Yahoo Chat is a big part of Yahoo, one of the biggestthat many people use on a regular basis. You can see
things online. People use Yahoo for e-mail, games,who is online to chat and you can block selected
music downloads, blogging and lots of other internetpeople from seeing that you are online without hiding
tools. If you are currently a Yahoo Chat user, you mayyourselves from the others. This is a nice privacy
be aware that they no longer support Java users;feature that is a more recent addition to Yahoo Chat.
however, they now offer "Yahoo Messenger withFor quite some time, you have been able to use your
Voice" as an alternative. If you do not want to switchBlackberry to e-mail people, but now you can also use
from Java, you will need to register with another IMYahoo Chat on your Blackberry while you are out on
service.the go.
For those who are not familiar with Yahoo Chat, youYou can limit your chat to those in the United States or
might want to go on and look around. You will not beyou can access chat rooms from many other
able to access some of the features until you are acountries and continents as well.
registered member, but you can get a basic idea ofThere are many chat room services online that you
what is available to you as a member. The site sayscan use. Many have similar features to Yahoo, but it is
that there are "hundreds" of chat rooms set up basedjust one of the more popular ones. Since membership
on nearly every type of need and interest. A quickis free, unless you want some of the more "exclusive"
scan of the categories reveals that you can chatfeatures such as video chat, you might want to give it
about everything from Business to Religion anda try. Make sure that you understand all of the rules
everything in between on Yahoo Chat.and agreements before you register so that you will
Yahoo Messenger is a popular feature of Yahoo Chatbe able to continue to chat as long as you wish.