leadfoot's Journal: IRC

Ok, so what is the deal with IRC nowadays? I mean, have punks taken it over or what? Seems like it's grown into one big flamefest. I hang on a channel on undernet that used to be a neat place to hang. Since it was a local channel to my area, alot of us used to get together(GT) for late night excursions to Denny's or the cheap clubs for dancing/drinking. We would type away for hours before and afterwards on our IRC channel. It was cool meeting the people in person to see who we were chatting with, and it was cool to see that sometimes the person didn't look how you pictured in your mind. Slowly over time it seems the flaming assholes have infiltrated this channel and now it's nearly impossible to hold an intelligent conversation in public. What has happened? Is it just that I'm getting older? I mean, have you ever gone to a party and had someone come up to you who was fluent in english, then have one of the other partygoers tell him to f-off or kick him outside? Is it that people feel safe in the anonymity behind the keyboard, so they can be so extraordinarily rude and downright mean? It is almost more appealing to me to go into a Yahoo or AIM chatroom now instead of the Wild Wild West that is IRC.

Anyhow, if you have stumbled across this journal, let me know what you think...

its true

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I agree, the IRC is not good for chatting. It seems everytime someone tries to give out their opinion on something (whether it be movies, music, etc.) someone has to immediatley voice the opposing opinion, usually followed by some slanderous remark. AOL is for chatting, IRC is for closed minded elitests ;)