do you consider mylot a chat room?

United States
April 23, 2012 12:53am CST
i had someone tell me that i didnt need to beon this site because it is just like a chat room but when i tried to explain to them what mylot was all about they didnt want to hear about it... to me mylot isa place to kind of get away meet new people make new friends and talk about issues of all sorts and get advice on things along with make a little extra money. i will never stop using my lot lol i am just woundering if all you mylotters consider this a "chat room"?
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16 responses
• Philippines
19 Aug 12
Well, mylot can be a chat room but not always. What is no one responds to your post? haha. For me, mylot is kind of a social site. But it is not a chat room. In a chat room, you get to talk to people in real time and your comments or replies will not be deleted by someone of higher authority. Mylot is more of a social site that has certain restrictions to guide its users in doing the right thing. happy mylotting.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
6 Nov 12
savagecabbage let me remind you that you can read the dos and do nots of making discussions and arm yourself with the knowledge of making discussions that will not be deleted. so its your choice if you refuse to get the the know how to avoid having your discussions deleted. also you do not get paid in your blasted chat rooms,its all just chit chat. here we learn and earn, we share and care and help others and are helped,now there's is no chat room anywhere can you be helped or help others and still be paid for it.
@Cherish14 (2693)
• Philippines
23 Apr 12
i can consider it as a chat room when we further the exchange ideas and thought snad further the discussion. it really is fun to be here and i really enjoy my time here. i may get bored sometimes because i can't find a discussion that catches my attention, but i still keep coming back
• United States
26 Apr 12
the only differance is that here at mylot we can respond when we have the time kind of like email messages. yes i sometimes get bored also when i can not find a discussion that catches my eye and attention but at that point i usually start a discussion and wait fro responses and by that time there are more discussions that will catch my eye :) i also will keep coming back!!
@Cherish14 (2693)
• Philippines
26 Apr 12
i haven't been making a discussion myself. sometimes, i can work easier and faster when i just respond. but also sometimes, i can't think of something to start with.
• United States
29 Apr 12
i can relate to that sometimes i can work better and faster just by finding other discussions to comment on but if i run out of ones i am interested in i will try to start one but i have the same problem as you sometimes i just can NOT think of one to start so that makes it a little harder lol but lately i have been starting a few of them every few days :)
@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
24 Apr 12
Wow!! This is considered to be a Chat room? In the 5+ yrs. that I have been a member here, I have never thought of this site like that. It is a place where you can meet others and talk about things going on in ones life, but never to the point where you really have to worry about how the other person is going to think. Yes, in time you do get to know a lot more of the members here, and that is Good but it is so totally different as their is meaning here than a Chatroom or Facebook even could ever offer someone.
• United States
26 Apr 12
i havent been here on mylot but for about 2 months now and i know i have never thought of it as a chat room. when my friend told me that i was kind of in shock and i wanted to know what everyone else here thought about it. mylot seems to take the best parts out of other websites and put it all together and makes it 10 x better (if that made any sence to you...didnt mean for it to come out wrong if i did lol sometimes i am not good with words haha)
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
23 Apr 12
haha i never thought of mylot as a chatroom. i think it is more than a chatroom... yes, mylot is a community, it has an available facility for people to make friends, for friends to chat, for a community like a forum for discussions, and for people to socialize.
• India
23 Apr 12
Hello friend, Yes my friend I also think that it is not a chatting room. It is a discussion room. If you campare mylot with a chatting room then it is a chat room. Have a nice day.
• United States
23 Apr 12
there are a few things that a chat room has in commen with mylot but there are way more differacnes in the 2. i guess if you really sit down and you think about it then yes mylot can be compared as a chat room in some ways but truely it is "fun" place to just relax and "chat/discuss" with other people and you can take your time in doing this instead of having to do it right then or as soon as you log out itll dissapear.
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
24 Apr 12
I think it can be regard as a chatting room in some degree, for you can share your ideas with other people and get responses. But the responses is not back on time, you may have wait several minutes, several hours or even several days. But in the past, when people use letters to communicate with other people, the chatting may cost more than that.
• United States
26 Apr 12
i think that is what seperated mylot from a chat room. a chat room you have to give an answer/reply pretty quick and right then. mylot like you said you can get a reply back at any time. yes i am sure it cost way more than that to chat using letters and i like this way better lol.
@allknowing (153530)
• India
23 Apr 12
If you want to call a back and forth repartee on a topic a chat there's nothing wrong but myLot is a discussion site and you have perfectly understood what it does to someone who registers here
• United States
23 Apr 12
yes it took me a little while to truely understand what mylot was about and what it can do to someone once they are registered here but now that i am a member i love it and i do not think i will ever leave :) yes mylot is a discussion site but i guess in all honesty it can be considered a chat site to but to me it is a discussion site and it always will be. to me a chat room is a place you talk back and forth quickly here at mylot you resond when you can and reply back when you can :)
@allknowing (153530)
• India
24 Apr 12
But if you are online at the time others have posted their comments you could post back and then may be it could be called a chat but this happens rarely.
• United States
24 Apr 12
i have had this happen a few times where i was online at the same time that someone commenting on my things we on so i guess that can make it kind of like a chat room but like we stated before it is more a discussion site and it is very rare that they are online when you reply to them unless you go to the "new" discussions because those are the most recent :)
• Canada
23 Apr 12
Nope, myLot is definitely not a chat room. A chat room is synchronous discussion which means that all participants in the chat are in the same place at the same time. Forums like myLot are asynchronous discussion - and the beauty of it is that we don't have to be here at the same time to participate in the same discussions. Our contributions remain here and we can go back, at any time we wish, and participate anywhere. Doesn't even matter how long ago the topics were started -- we can always bring them to the forefront and discuss further With a chat room, conversation ends the moment you leave. If people don't want to listen to your explanation about myLot, their loss You know better!
• United States
23 Apr 12
i tried to explain it again and because they believe it is a chat room they want nothing to do with it i was even going to show her this conversation lol to show her that all of us look at it diffrently and that is the point here in mylot. it is meant for us to all have discussions and talk about it and further it and all in the mean time we can make a little extra cash. i agree with you i know the truth and if she doesnt want to check it out then it is her loss and i will be the one haveing fun :) i agree with what you are saying about the diffrence because here we can respond to discussions from 3 years ago if we wanted or we can look back at a previous one we started to get more idea or if you forget but once you sign out of a chat room there is no way to go back and see what you talked about.
@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
23 Apr 12
Chatting is the modern term for conversing, which is also discussing. In the discussions here on myLot we are exchanging opinions - which is discussing which is also chatting. We have certain guidelines that we must follow. For example we must use English. Chat/text language is not accepted. Just as long as we keep to those guidelines, which also inform us to add comments to further the topic, I see no distinction between discussing and chatting and indeed once a chain of comments gets moving forward it is FUN - and that is what myLot approves of too.
@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
23 Apr 12
MyLot also put the emphasis on FUN as you can see here: "Have Fun! Users can find friends, make new friends, join discussions, flirt, personalize your profile, upload photos, take quizzes, or just hang out". http://www.mylot.com/o/login.aspx?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.mylot.com%2fo%2ffaq.aspx Of course, to make the pages search-engine friendly we must use English, which is why, in the FAQs, we are told that we earn for our quality particpation. It is up to us to create the balance
@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
23 Apr 12
MyLot is very different from the chat room. MyLot is a discussion site. Indeed, we can also discuss, in a chat room. But, discussions on myLot, and in chat rooms, very different. In myLot there are regulations that we must obey.
• United States
23 Apr 12
there are also regulations in a chat room but they are not as extreme as they are here at mylot. i agree that mylot is WAY diffrent than a chat room beacause of the people that you meet there usually only want to have "fun" in a complete diffrent way than you have fun here on mylot.
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
23 Apr 12
I don't consider myLot to be a chat room. There seems to be a better standard to that. I don't think of it as a social network as well, even if there can be many comparisons, with the having friends and forging connections with other people right on this website. But a chat room is rather just something that makes me shake my head and it really misses the point. It is a discussion forum. The key word being "discussion". A chat room is just people goofing off and having fun. Not that there is really anything wrong with that but there are just going to be a lot of times where that is not up to my liking. I think that a chat room is an entirely different manner. It is a discussion forum where you can learn a bit of supplemental income.
• United States
23 Apr 12
i understand where you are coming from with that because in a chat room you normally only talk to those people once but here at mylot we can talk to each other many many times and keep up to date with them :) i guess you could say in chat rooms you make temporary friends here at mylot you make friends that last for a while :) thank you for your comment and you insight :) now if only i could get my friend to understand mylot better and actually be interested in it :)
• Bulgaria
23 Apr 12
I personally think that this site is really "chat room".You can talk about anything that interests us.See other posts and comments.Don't worry about what you write or what you will meet.Some will be interested in your discussion.You can speak on various topics that your friends in real life do not comment.You just might wake up and write Good morning,what will you do today?I love this site.
• United States
23 Apr 12
i see where you are coming from but look at it this way... in a chat room when you are done talking then the conversation is done and once you sign out it is gone forever but here at mylot you discussion will be there forever for anyone to see. i do agree with you tho it is a place to "chat" with others but i am able to lean either way :) i also love this site. like you said we can talk about anything and ask anything without being judged by others like some of us would at home around our real friends.
@leighz (456)
23 Apr 12
I understand why your friend feels that way. There are times when it may seem like a chatroom. Since we know some people here, we respond to their post in a nonconventional way. For instance, members can post about their personal life and our myLotters who knew them personally comments on them or provides advise in a more personal level. However, when it comes to personal opinion about hot issues on current events. We get more comments with quality and is based on something they've read, that is very information, that's where real discussion comes in.
• United States
23 Apr 12
yes i can understand why she feel that way but it would be nice for her to want to hear me out about what mylot really is about. i was going to show her this discussion to show her what we all think about it but i am not sure i can even get her to look at it lol. yes there are all types of discussions that go on here and there is something for every one to respond on. here in mylot it will stay forever and ever and you can go back to it to check it out any time you want to in a chat room you can not. i love when the discussions come out with lots to talk about but it also helps everyone earn money so that is a mojor plus :) lol
• India
23 Apr 12
Hello friend, Mylot is a discussion room. If you compare the discussions with chatting then it is a chat room. I think it is a good room and also a safe site. Here you can get new friends and also some money which was very important in todays life. Have a nice day.
• United States
23 Apr 12
yes mylot is a very safe sight. i do not think i have found a mean person yet lol and i havent found anyone looking for the other kind of fun haha. it is very easy to get new friends that like the same things you do or that you can relate to :) making money is just a plus added to all the fun you can have here. hope you have a great day :)
@BigMoney25 (1286)
• Philippines
23 Apr 12
Just a site for long threads I mean a chat room is very far from a website like mylot with a different setting. But you can reply to threads just like a wall post in facebook and it looks and feels the same like chatting.
• United States
26 Apr 12
if i had to choose i would say that mylot is more like a facebook site but then again it is WAY diffrent from a social network like facebook lol.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
6 Nov 12
hi crazzydolphin in a way discussing here in like chatting only here its better as we have monitoring and cannot insult or flame each other. Also our discussions or chatting as you will must follow mylot dos and dont's of making discussions which I doubt any chat rooms have so in that respect we are a discussion forum that pays not a lousy chat room where people can insult and not be stopped. here we get paid, we make friendships with people from all over the world and we make interesting and thoughtful and informative discussions. no chat room I have ever seen can be really very informative. just a lot of talk some just blah blah. so we are a better type of chatting as we learn, we care and we share with friends and it is all the way around a great experience.
@fantabulus (4000)
• India
19 Aug 12
Yes I consider mylot is a chat but the difference is we cant know who is online and who is offline when I start our conversation. Make new friends and share our problems and happiness with them that nice place of mylot.