Chats

In case Wall conversations aren’t enough for you, there is a speedier alternative: My Live Chat. Now you can keep up with your many friends instantaneously. More interesting (to me) is that privacy settings allow your friends and their friends to chat with you. I feel like this is a nice widening of my private circle. You can also check your “public chat” box and let just anyone chat with you, but that circle is a little too wide for me. Eep, strangers! You know how it is.

 This chat is an excellent app if 1) you’ve got a lot of friends with a lot to say and 2) you can convince your friends to join as well. One nice thing is that it doesn’t have the preliminary “invite friends/skip” screen. I don’t know why that screen always bothers me, but it does. Although in this case, since this application is really only useful to me if my friends use it, that screen would not be out of place.

 Instead of the reminder screen, the app encourages you to invite people by using bribery. Inviting people earns you special features like emoticons, a must-have for any chatting scenario. How will people know you are devil-horned, yet happy, without a picture to tell them? I ask you.

 People with no friends…should maybe not be using a social networking site. But let’s assume you’re here to make new friends. While you wait for that to happen, you can try talking to Chat Bot. As developer Ramesh Kumar puts it, “It may be meaningless and yet you can enjoy the marvel of Artificial intelligence!” Chat Bot is less random than many similar programs. I tried a mini-conversation and the bot was able to semi-accurately respond to a good portion of what I said. This is a fun little time waster, until you realize that you’ve spent the last five minutes trying to get a fake robot to say something dirty. And then the shame kicks in.

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