Yahoo Chat Rooms: You Must Be Over 18 Now   - 22,511 Views, 247 Comments

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1. Uh… How are they planning on confirming peoples’ ages?

   Comment by rak — 10/12/2005 @ 5:08 pm

2. What would prevent them from making a profile labeled as an 18 yr old and still get in though? MSN doesn’t have this problem because they started charging for thier service. The only way they are going to get the teens out of yahoo chat is to either start charging for thier chat service, or at least verify that they are 18 years of ago or older by entering some sort of proof. Even then if they don’t charge and just require proof, my 16 yr old daughter can still obtain my driver’s licence, SSN, or whatever form of id that she would need to sign up as an 18 yr old. I think I’d definitly notice if I started getting charges on my credit card though. So really yahoo hasn’t done anything except making it so they have to say they are 18 and they can still chat.

   Comment by Kermit — 10/12/2005 @ 5:08 pm

3. So what…. ever heard of IRC??

   Comment by wiget — 10/12/2005 @ 5:30 pm

4. WOW!!! They can’t be serious!! I bet 99% of all users are under age. That’s insane! Yahoo is cutting the branch it’s sitting on.

   Comment by Alexei — 10/12/2005 @ 6:24 pm

5. Ah the logic of all your comments makes me feel good about our population as a whole!

   This is not a hard one to figure out people. Yahoo! Is doing this as a preemptive strike to safeguard themselves against future lawsuits. If they require you to verify your age as well as placing “watchdogs” in key areas the parents (who are to blame for this anyway) do not have any legal ground on which to stand if and WHEN they decided to sue Yahoo! for allowing their children to come in contact with pedofiles.

   To the one that said something about IRC… Read what I wrote above. This has nothing to do with the HOW as much as it is about the WHO.

   Comment by Anonymous — 10/12/2005 @ 6:48 pm

6. ./ is here… Fuck the bitch limiting free speach. Also where is the dam parents?

   Silly people.

   Comment by BOB — 10/12/2005 @ 6:59 pm

7. This will do nothing to stop it. There are plenty of other ways, including the sites such as myspace and tagged which do not require any verification of age, it is sites that actually encourage children and teenagers to join. Any adult could make an account at any one of these sites quite easily with little or no effort on their part. Yahoo has done nothing but moved the perverts to other sources.

   Comment by Anonymous — 10/12/2005 @ 7:36 pm

8. Good for them! It’s about time the Nazi-Commie-Whiny-Baby-Can’t-Parent-My-Kids-On-My-Own-So-I’ll-Make-Society-To-Do-It-For-Me crowd had a major corporation on their side! Up until now they’ve just had a strange mix of Hillary Clinton and ultra-conservative morality cops.

   Comment by Bob/Paul — 10/12/2005 @ 7:40 pm

9. just hoped yahoo wont start charging.

   Comment by halms — 10/12/2005 @ 10:31 pm

10. I am in DAL.net IRC network often enough that I don’t have to worry about losing Yahoo’s chat.

    Comment by user — 10/12/2005 @ 11:29 pm

11. Parents need to supervise childred and if they cant then the puter should be in a lock up so they can not use it

    Comment by Maria Proud — 10/13/2005 @ 12:12 am

12. I believe in what yahoo is doing as minors really dont belong in adult chatrooms, however, by taking out the minor chatrooms as well I believe they(mean yahoo ) are asking for trouble as more minors will make fake names with fake ages. I believe they should find a way to keep the minors out of the adult rooms as well as the adults out of the minors rooms. they should allow booting or bouncing from a room when it is discovered that a minor is using the name and it should be banned permenantly. find a way to ban the ip’s from those chatrooms. come on people that is an easy solution. I also believe that the Parents need to do more Parenting on this issue by educating their children on the do’s and don’ts of the big bad internet.. if a Parent has the money for a computer then they can search for a program that will not allow the children access to the information that children should not be privy too. Most of those programs are free. if the Parents were more responsible then there wouldnt be some many minors in the adult rooms and that chance of their children meeting a sex offender would be nil to none. yahoo can only due so much its up to Us Parents to do the rest!

    Comment by Dawn — 10/13/2005 @ 12:15 am

13. Wow! I never thought parents would be issued a “Negligence License” but here it is! Don’t watch your own kids! Yahoo! will do it for you!

    Comment by chris — 10/13/2005 @ 12:52 am

14. Of course they’ll consider charging! A financial audit trail is of greatest
    assistance in reducing under-age participants… And, convieniently: Anonymity…
    The liability aspects are changed too. For both Yahoo and the Paying customer.

    Comment by James — 10/13/2005 @ 2:41 am

15. More Government Sensorship Just Kepp Giving them more power People

    Comment by Playtimez — 10/13/2005 @ 5:21 am

16. One of Yahoo’s big problems in chat is all the spambots that are there to solicit for pr0n sites. Having the children subjected to that filth is just crazy. Closing all the spammers IM windows in any Yahoo chat room is like playing a game of space-invaders. I am supprised Spitzer *only* had 35 filthy messages in 25 minutes, as you can get that many without posing as an under aged girl. I wonder just how many were from real people? One has to wonder why its so popular.

    Comment by xChatUser — 10/13/2005 @ 7:24 am

17. the problem is not so much children in adult rooms as it is adults trolling in children’s rooms. when you allow anyone under the age of 18 into ANY venue, whether it is a restaurant or a chatroom, you are responsible for them. children’s rooms need to be monitored by a live person or at least an AI.

    Comment by zeke — 10/13/2005 @ 8:00 am

18. My God. Parents of the nation, rejoice! You no longer have to pay ANY ATTENTION AT ALL to your children–Yahoo is going to do all the work FOR you! Huzzah! This is one of the more asinine things I’ve heard recently. Because God forbid that parents actually, oh, PARENT, their own children. Nonono. It’s up to the Evil Chatroom-Providing Coporations, who are CLEARLY to blame when their kid gets IMed by a pervert, to do that for them.

    Comment by Z — 10/13/2005 @ 8:07 am

19. Dawn: You obviously don’t know much about the nature of IP addresses and ISPs. AOL users can actually have a different IP address between requests, and they’re shared. This means that you’d be banning a large portion of people, and your ban would be ineffective as the person would just get a new IP again in another 5 minutes or so.

    Furthermore, Yahoo! is getting punished only because they were large enough and successful enough for people to notice them. Sure, they provided a chat service, but those parent’s provided the internet access to that service. The parents are liable, not the service. What a shame that parenting is now being substituted for corporate ethics.

    Comment by Man-Chicken — 10/13/2005 @ 10:20 am

20. dawn: what you say is stupid..first like Man-Chiken said..the ONLY people that have the same IP adress day after day..are the people who have cable internet and most broadband….SECOND….. those stupid adult blockers and programs that block kids from acessing those sites are easy to hack, and get around…not to forget they S L O W down the computer to a sluggish state..we use my cousins PC for movie editing, and he has one of the BEST blockers..the computer CONSTANTLY fails due to that program is ALWAYS on and takes about 50k of ram..thats more that AIM and Firefox COMBINED…Third… if a parent provides the internet, the computer, and the PRIVACY (not paying attentoin to what they are doing)..it doesnt matter what YAHOO or other chat rooms are doing. It is SOLEY the parents responsibility if anything were to happen…and as to the parents who think that others should be responsible…GROW THE F#*@ up and DO YOUR JOB AS A PARENT..if your that concerned of what they do on it…then take it away STOP ruining it for others you idiots

    Comment by Mark — 10/13/2005 @ 6:59 pm

21. whatever happened to children not being whores? when they go to “teen girls for older men” chatrooms, they’re just asking for trouble…lets ban all that stupid “booty shaking shit” on mtv and teach people morals again…all the teens that get “sexually explicit messages” are probably sexually active ANYWAY…this is not yahoo’s fault…its dumb, impressionable kids who follow trends like the crackheads who follow me around begging for change…when i have kids, everytime i see it listening to rap music or watching MTV, BET, or UPN, i’m gonna smack it in the face until it cries…

    kid: “dad, can i watch 2 Fast 2 Furious?”
    me: “FUCK NO BITCH!” (punches kid too fast and too furious)

    when i run for president, that’s gonna be my campain: “BAN HIP-HOP, AND SMACK YOUR KIDS SENSELESS!”

    Comment by shawn — 10/13/2005 @ 7:58 pm

22. So all of us adults that use yahoo chat as a break sometimes from our daily lives of bill paying, working, and tons of other crap should have to pay to chat with others because some parents dont teach their kids that it isnt ok to just jump and run to a guy that wants your address …most all over the victims of this crap are teenagers Im sorry but lay off yahoo and start blaming the partents and teens themselves for being stupid .

    Comment by Siouxsie — 10/13/2005 @ 8:24 pm

23. Let me start by saying I am not a racist. However I have been in yahoo chat for five years. At one point it was fun but now all people want to do if fight, insult or talk sex. I have noticed the greater number of men who talk trash to the women are usually of the paki, muslim, indian race. And it really does not matter to them if you are a married woman. They still try to talk sexual to a person and they also try to show themselves naked on cam. My suggestion would be to cut off the middle eastern countries and I think that would solve alot of the problem. And I will repeat again, I am not racist. This is just my observation.

    Comment by Arctic — 10/14/2005 @ 4:44 am

24. As has been stated- this is purely Yahoo covering their *ss, legally. You don’t think, for a minute, that “they” (giant corporate entity) actually care about your kids?

    As a parent of two younger children, I will simply say that as a parent, it’s up to you to explain to your children what they may find online & why you object. They look to parents for guidance & values. As I tell mine, “don’t do anything you wouldn’t do if I were standing next to you”.

    After that, the best you can do is to repeat it & cross your fingers. It’s quite naive to say “get rid of the PC”- all their friends have PC’s & you cannot monitor them constantly.

    If you care, give them the information they need to start to make their own, informed decisions.

    A realistic Mom

    Comment by Tracy — 10/14/2005 @ 5:36 am

25. Kids will still get in, but now the blame is shifted wholly to the parents instead of Yahoo.

    Comment by Matthew — 10/14/2005 @ 9:37 am

26. i just got my self a new yahoo id but the whole problem i that my fav chat room is gone they deleted the entire teen categor . they are loosing all of us and they will be sorry and ya i have got a static ip. fairly_lover_m at yahoo dot com

    Comment by Sukhneer — 10/14/2005 @ 10:28 am

27. This is pure economics, yahoo wasw free. When peopel lose a free resource, they move to other free resources. Its more likely that kids will jst move to other chatting areas than resort to making new profiles. As they say, easy come easy go. Same ohilosophy will eventually allowe the RIAA to defeat file sharing by a majority of people.

    Comment by ben g — 10/14/2005 @ 10:54 am

28. i know about 50 teens that already made a new ID to make it appear they are 18 .so yahoo’s plan was just a waste of time for them and for the people that have to take time to make new ID. hmmm i guess more teens will now be able to enter the Adult chat area , they couldnt before if they were under 18. good job yahoo you just created a new problem. in few weeks all the kids will have a new id over 18 and the problems will just continue.
    and i agree with what most are saying, the blame should be the parents not yahoo. just like they need keep track of what there kids are watchin on tv they need to watch there internet habits as well.
    and to the person that mentioned the middle eastern people bein a problem, you are right iv noticed that too i get message from them people all the time asking if i got a cam or if i want to see them nude on cam, its very anoying. wich leads to my next thing, the whole cam thing in chat was the biggest mistake of all. kids are exposing themselves to the pervs making it easy for them. i think they should ban cam use in the chat rooms and that alone would solve at least half the problems

    Comment by CT — 10/14/2005 @ 11:27 am

29. Here’s a novel idea how about the people who are having the children actually take responsibility for them? Oh wait but that would be the parents wouldn’t it?
    Hey parents do your freaking jobs and stop waiting for everyone else to do it for you.

    Comment by ryan — 10/14/2005 @ 9:11 pm

30. Huh……..grrr no more random spam in yahoo boards

    Comment by BLARGH — 10/15/2005 @ 5:50 am

31. The whole thing is just stupid, Yahoo’s just making sure some lazy parent wont sue their asses because they didn’t realize their teen was chatting with a perv.

    Comment by koina — 10/15/2005 @ 10:43 pm

32. Guess what if you think that banning chat rooms will make the bad stuff go away will it hasn’t people with certain fetishes/interests are hanging in certain chat rooms by interest. For example Foot Fetishes hang in Fetishes:39. There is a list of these subjects on http://www.yahlist.net, be warned the foot fetish room is the mild one. My point is that simply getting rid of these user rooms didn’t make the subject go away it just swept them under the carpet. The more perverse rooms reformed right away in the regular rooms but the non perverse straight rooms are probably gone for ever!

    Comment by chilly — 10/16/2005 @ 9:43 am

33. wtf are they thinking. honestly this is so stupid, i mean when they were kids they had to deal with the same shit. and no one cared. they just ruin it for all of us, why dont they put a 50 year old person and they would get the same crap. parents should do there work instead of ruining it for all of us. this is probly by far one of the most stupid thing yahoo could have done. if you go to other chat rooms its the same thing for 20, 30 etc.

    Comment by i cant believe what idiots — 10/16/2005 @ 4:45 pm

34. now teens will just go to 20 year old chat rooms. and they will be just in the hands of pervs. cause they will look for the youngest person to a teen. and probably teens will just change there shit so they can go into a chat room.

    Comment by i cant believe what idiots — 10/16/2005 @ 4:49 pm

35. look at it this way…WE could blame hilary for this….Giving GTA: SA is the SAME as banning user rooms.It’s these soccer mom’s who whine and get their way.I’m sick of it.Just BAN’em ALL I’m gone to MiRC

    Comment by Junji Hiroma — 10/19/2005 @ 10:53 am

36. I’ve chated on yahoo for years now. I will admit that I have seen first hand some of what yahoo is trying to protect kids from. There is not one solution to this problem. To solve it one must start with the parents (who by the way ARE and will ALWAYS be responsible for what their kids do offline as well as online). Second its not yahoo’s job to keep the kids safe. They are the added security on top of the PARENTS. Parents now-a-days are unaware of what thier kids do and who they hang out with and what not. Mine gave us our freedom to do what we wanted but they ALWAYS had an eye and ear on us. Alot of this boils down to just plain old fashion lazy parenting and sometimes bad parenting. I’m sorry the internet isn’t a safe place. It never has been and it never will be. I’ve chated with people that have run into the “sickos” in the chat rooms and most of them were around 15. I’m sorry if ur 15 and you dont know how to handle a sick SOB like that then ur parents need to teach you. As far as kids younger than that yahoo should make a restricted area that parents must sign thier kids up for and it is extremely monitor out the wazoo. Montors are only good for chat room content but one can still use the messenger service to do it. So to be honest I really don’t think there is a solution to this problem. It’s like a virus. Ever changing, ever adapting to a new environment.

    Comment by Matt — 10/19/2005 @ 11:43 pm

37. “Welcome to America people. The land where we blame everyone but ourselves!!!”

    Comment by Matt — 10/19/2005 @ 11:47 pm

38. Entirely outside of the merits (or not) of the comments, I’m dismayed by the illiteracy, boorish language and attitudes bordering on DANGEROUS, displayed above. Some of you seem to part of the problem, yourselves!

    Comment by Mike — 10/22/2005 @ 1:09 pm

39. I’m not going to disagree about the horrible parenting in this country because my parents have no idea what I do. I’m only 13 and I’ve seen first-hand what some of the internet sickos are out for. One huge problem in Yahoo! chat rooms is the bots becayse not only are they plain annoying, but they also promote all the sick things kids like me are exposed to on the internet daily. Another huge problem is that the kids in the world today are flat-out corrupt and mislead. I come from an extremely small but safe community where the “good kids” are clearly distinguished from the “bad kids” nearly 100% of the time. There are those aweful stereotypes that follow everyone around, but even so, you can tell who the kids are who are into drugs and who the kids are who haven’t smoked a day in their lives. With that said, I’d like to point ou tthat youth groups and chuches don’t put a ban on children under 18. They simply pay attention, something that sounds extremely simple, which it is. It seems somehow, however, that today, anything that requires any energy at all is too complicated and stressful for adults to accomplish, yet still they expect things to get done. The banning of Yahoo! chat under 18 is a purplexing topic indeed, but it really all comes down to parents and their children. Nobody’s perfect, but we atleast need to strive for something that isnt a completely chaotic society. Just get a clue people! Please!

    Comment by Ambyr — 10/24/2005 @ 2:42 pm

40. Unfortunately any room with the word “teen” in it is going to be viewed as a “target” as if it was a war against the bad stuff that goes on. These are the rooms that these men go to to find young girls. It’s true that there are many ways minors can get approached by sexual predators. If i was a soldier in a war against sexual predators the teen chat rooms would be a target that would have to be eliminated because it is an outlet for the enemy to linger. Oh, and i’m sure that the legal hassles far out weigh the sympathy (if any) for the teenagers that want to spend hour after hour wasting their lives in chat rooms. *burp*

    Comment by GomerPyle — 10/25/2005 @ 5:35 pm

41. Kids are not as stupid as everyone thinks we are. We have all ready began to make up new yahoo names saying we’re 18 just to get into chat rooms. So, really yahoo has done nothing.

    Comment by Jane — 10/25/2005 @ 6:02 pm

42. sup’ yo

    Comment by Calesha — 10/27/2005 @ 2:29 pm

43. Parents wake up and stop expecting websites to monitor your children. YOU DO IT. I swear they should have to have a license to parent. Ridiculous!!

    Comment by Amanda — 10/28/2005 @ 8:44 pm

44. i want to say something about the comment that shawn mande. Hip hop music is not the only type that talks about sex and violence, i listen to rock and that says alot of sexual things and things against god, so lets not all blame hip hop, because the kids are listenin to what we listen to, just in a different form, so don’t always try to put it on the black music. And I do believe in smacking the shit out of dumb kids

    Comment by bill — 10/30/2005 @ 3:28 pm

45. i think that is just stupid!

    Comment by katie — 11/2/2005 @ 4:02 pm

46. This is so stupid!!! What does yahoo think? Do they think they can make us stay out of our favorite chat rooms? Well I have news for them, they cant. Adults dont get it. They cant stop us. We are all unstopable. Parents this is to you, What makes you think we cant get in the chat rooms on our own? Because we can. Just because we arent 18 yet doesnt mean anything. We have our ways of geting what we want without you knowing about it. Us kids are sneaky and we will never stop being sneaky. Im only 15 so I have 3 years until I can get on the chat rooms. Kids, we have to stick together and yahoo might give up on the whole thing. So parents there is no stoping the unstopable. So just let us have our privacy and we might just talk to you when something is up. And Yahoo just quit while your ahead. And us kids, will never give up. Because like I said, we never give up, we always shoot for the goal. Meaning we always get what we want. Like it or not we do.

    Comment by dana — 11/5/2005 @ 8:05 pm

47. hi there hope things are going youre way

    Comment by rehua_nz — 11/6/2005 @ 9:08 pm

48. I agree that it is really time for parents to step up and start doing their jobs. I saw some one refer to the teens in the chatrooms as sluts and I think that is utterly rediculous. Most teens are in the chatrooms looking for attention that they don’t get at home mainly from there parents if parents would pay more attention to their kids and take the initiative to be more active in they’re kids lives then a lot of them wouldn’t be in the chatrooms in the first place. Everything starts with the parents and thats what they fail to realize that you build the foundation on which kids validate themselves if thier not getting it from you be sure thier getting it from somewhere and most of the time it’s from the wrong place. How do i know, well im 17 and i’ve lived this shit all my life this is not a sob story but a freakin wake up call. Older men have sent me explicit messages in the chatrooms even after knowing I was a minor and I was once takin advantage of by an older man that i met in the chatroom while i know I share some blame in the decision I made I know for sure that if my mom and dad had takin sometime out to valdate and pay attention to me none of that would have ever happened, I would have never been in a room listen to this man tell me that im pretty etc. etc. because my parents would have enstiled that confidence in me he wouldn’t have been able to tell me what i already knew. All im sayin is parents for the sake of your children step the fuck up validate your kids cause if you don’t somebody lookin to steal your kids innocence away will. I do commend Yahoo for taking the initiative to put an end to this foolishness but at the sametime i feel like they havn’t really solved problem cause like many of you said all a kid has to do is make a pro that says they’re 18 so…and then it think it’s stupid that they excluded teens altogether but then again makin teen rooms 17 and under would only pose the same problem so i guess there really is no solution.

    Comment by Trice — 11/8/2005 @ 10:07 pm

49. good to have rules to stop people under to talk

    Comment by claire whiteley — 11/11/2005 @ 2:56 am

50. yahoo chating is somehow difficult to start.They should improve futher

    Comment by ISRAEL — 11/11/2005 @ 10:52 am

51. yahoo are doing what they are told as defined by the the laws of any free country

    Comment by john — 11/11/2005 @ 1:09 pm

52. http://www.alwaysuseprotection.com/
    Why don’t parents read this. It’s ridicoulous that we’re all getting banned from this service. It goes into explaining real security for us and briefly child privacy. But in reality how many kids do you see on the news are getting raped? Maybe 1 - 50. But for the 99% of others we learn all about sex eventually and we prefer joke around a little bit, and quite frankly who cares. We are just teenagers nothing more.

    Comment by Nicholas — 11/12/2005 @ 3:04 am

53. I am a parent AND a heavy user of Yahoo. So, just a couple of things; Yahoo is a tool. If a tool cuts you, would you blame the tool? No. Make a safety modification? Yes I would! So Yahoo needs to make adiquate and responsible provision to prevent both young people from being hit upon AND weirdo’s doing the hitting. Children are not tools. I would suggest they fall into three broad catagories - the blameless going about their business with their friends, the curious wondering what all the fuss is about, the active who will do it regardless.

    Would I trust Yahoo or an AI to protect my 6yo on the net? No. My 12 yo? Nope. Who would I trust? Me and my wife, thats who. How? By providing the kids with education about the net and the weirdies that live on it, a proper set of moral values and a sence of right and wrong!

    Ultimately you need to ask - who bought the pc and loaded Yahoo onto it - you or your kids? Duuh! Forgive me for stating the blindingly fvcking obvious but YOU buy a Pc, load Yahoo onto, leave it unattended except for a curious / active teenager ………. WHO IS TO BLAME???? Your Pc, your kid …….

    Yes I agree that Yahoo could and should do something about the bots and nutters. NO I dont think they should babysit OUR children!

    Comment by Seb — 11/17/2005 @ 8:56 am

54. I just never agreed with the sick chat rooms that were in the user created education area. It shocked me. Some education for a child. The parents are responsible for where their children go online. But yahoo is responsible for chat rooms with the names that some of those had. AOL has been filtering those types of chat names for years. As far as paying goes yahoo has a lot of spyware and ads. I don’t think anyone wants to pay for that. It probably is for the best to have yahoo monitors in user created chat rooms. That is more to supervise idiotic adults creating sicko name chat rooms like BabySex. It is the parents responsibility on the other end to watch the kids online with tools such as netnanny

    Comment by Kelly — 11/18/2005 @ 5:22 pm

55. the problem is the f*** pedophiles … and yes of course yahoo should bann all user rooms….

    and one thing respect each others..there is freedom of speech but no abusing….

    Comment by budz — 11/19/2005 @ 5:28 pm

56. yahoo knows that teenagers will STILL get into the chat rooms but what Yahoo did was protect themselves from any legal action by making it 18+. They know that teens will lie about their ages anf get into chat rooms. Yahoo basically is covering their ass so they don’t get a lawsuit every month. Oh and by the way i really can’t believe that Yahoo let these types of rooms exist for as long as they did. It seems as if whoever was in charge of the chat rooms never kept up with what was going on or did not care. If they did we might still have the user rooms and teen rooms. *burp* shazam!

    Comment by gomer pyle — 11/23/2005 @ 3:52 pm

57. why cant i get into yahoo chat rooms, it says i have to over 18 and i am over 50 colleen

    Comment by colleen dawson — 12/11/2005 @ 10:44 am

58. tthere are programs such as net nanny,, couldnt yahoo chat be added to the rooms that them programs dont allow

    Comment by Anonymous — 12/18/2005 @ 4:57 pm

59. Lets, I don’t let my childern play with guns, have the car keys, drink, watch x movies, mmmmmmmmmmm maybe I should let someone else wacth them when they are on teh computer….
    Or better yet lets close all teh parks, movie house and skate places because pervs could be there. WATCH YOUR OWN CHILDERN!!!!!

    Comment by the1 — 12/23/2005 @ 4:20 am

60. Yahoo chat rooms? Parents, while you’re monitoring your children on the net, check out the innocent Yahoo Games rooms. Here you can find eleven to seventeen year olds asking for online sex. Guess who’s watching them mom and dad? The eighteen to sixty year olds of both sexes licking their chops. Out of the four years of playing in Yahoo Games, not one child i’ve asked told me their parents watch what they’re doing on the net. Sad huh? If you’re child ever comes up to you and gives you a slap, it was from me. Wake up parents and be responsible.

    Comment by Cindy — 12/31/2005 @ 6:09 pm

61. i want to meet some new friends in rooms

    Comment by arinze — 1/13/2006 @ 2:42 am

62. I have read yahoo and occassionly talk to someone. I have noticed the increase of childre using this service.If the parents cannot control there children don’t expect Yahoo to do the job for them.No parent control the siblings go down the drain and not by the Yahoo chat rooms.

    Comment by R Walton — 1/14/2006 @ 7:53 pm

63. i like that you are providing useful info

    Comment by leaha — 1/17/2006 @ 12:12 am

64. Yahoo only did this to protect themselves–that’s the only real reason. They may have prevented the lazy kids from accessing chatrooms, but every other kid can still access a chatroom if they really want to.

    My problem with all this? The fact that they took the easy way out of it!!!

    Rather than imposing a strict must-be-18-or-older bar on chatrooms (which still protects Yahoo), they just banned the whole thing altogether for those under 18. I have a problem with this because I use a chatroom for my group–an unofficial Harry Potter mock-Hogwarts website. We emphasize morals, kids’ well-being, etc. among our crazy HP-fandom goals, and we ban members who we suspect of being pervs or just anyone who’s there to track down kids, and we delete members if even the tiniest bit of illegal activity is sighted or reported. So far, we haven’t had any bad activity happen, but now that Yahoo has banned chatrooms, most of our members (including myself–I’m 17!), cannot access the chatrooms. We loved chatting with each other, but now we can’t do that.

    I’m sure that there are plenty of other teenagers (who are smart and don’t look for trouble) who don’t deserve to be affected by this. We can’t access innocent chatrooms anymore and talk about normal things. I was looking forward to a chatroom from Sir James Galway, a famous flutist, but I can’t do that now because under my current account, I’m under 18. Yahoo is going to lose a lot of people like this. I understand the need to protect kids, but like most of you all have said, this is the PARENTS’ job. Just because some parents are lazy and some kids are stupid enough to do stupid things like accessing adult chatrooms or talking freely with people who so obviously want to just have sex or something, doesn’t mean that everyone else should be restricted. There are and will always be places where kids can get caught by pervs.
    This is the INTERNET–it can never be safe unless parents take action for their own kids! Parents should put programs that block chatrooms, prevent downloads without parents’ permission, block adult pron websites, etc. Many of my friends cannot access chatrooms or download things because of these protection programs. It works, and at the same time, it doesn’t limit other people. THIS is what should happen!

    What, if Yahoo is going to block its group chatrooms to users under 18, is it going to kill Yahoo messenger too? Pervs send sexually illicit messages through YIM all the time, and with the webcams, it’s just worse. Is AIM going to do something? MSN? Eventually, are they just going to kill Instant Messaging? Hell, that’d be THE safest thing! It’d solve the whole problem of kids talking with strangers online!

    I’m just saying that I’m very upset that my group of over 300 (over 800 on a companion site belonging to the same group) cannot enjoy the discussions we have on Yahoo Chatrooms. Sure, we could move–but changes on a relatively large group isn’t easy. It kills group activity for quite a while.

    –A VERY frustrated teen of 17

    Comment by abstracted — 1/30/2006 @ 5:40 pm

65. I think you should go to fight rooms 5.. 7 18.,.. 10 and 22 and ban all them @$$ holes

    Comment by Me Dang it — 4/17/2006 @ 6:40 pm

66. I think this whole thing is a good idea what the yahoo has done. It is good that children are not allowed to enter on adults chatrooms;however many children may still enter on them.I believe that on yahooligans they should create a kids chat so the kids can change their mind and go on kids chat rooms.

    Comment by anca irina — 4/25/2006 @ 6:08 pm

67. “Kids are not as stupid as everyone thinks we are. We have all ready began to make up new yahoo names saying we’re 18 just to get into chat rooms. So, really yahoo has done nothing.”

    Actually, it is not hard to view the old user data, compare number of users at an IP address and the previous ages the IP address held.

    Ooops, did I say that? That is what I would do, and you kids, cheating and lying to people would get punished. Way into adulthood.

    Computer Fraud is a crime. Make ALL the fraudulent ID’s you want. Remember, you are soooo smart. Perhaps Mommy and Daddy will not feel like bailing your sorry butts out of jail when the REAL problems start.

    Comment by Thor — 5/13/2006 @ 1:54 pm

68. Hi everyone

    Comment by Brenda Ledbetter — 5/29/2006 @ 7:24 pm

69. I want to talk with somebody

    Comment by rose — 6/18/2006 @ 8:53 am

70. hey

    Comment by Monique — 6/20/2006 @ 12:14 pm

71. live every day like it’s your last

    Comment by christa — 6/29/2006 @ 11:56 am

72. hai

    Comment by chandu — 7/2/2006 @ 3:42 am

73. hey

    Comment by logan — 7/5/2006 @ 7:08 pm

74. i need a lover,email me on this email address rodneyfester at yahoo dot com

    Comment by ma.rondeny — 7/9/2006 @ 5:39 am

75. Its up to the parents

    Comment by johnny — 7/18/2006 @ 3:52 pm

76. nice dear friends co operate with yahoo

    Comment by friend — 7/22/2006 @ 7:29 pm

77. to whom it may concern

    will yahoochat be shutting down

    Comment by Brian Westmoreland — 7/23/2006 @ 12:33 pm

78. i tink having a security is very safe for our children

    Comment by Erica — 7/25/2006 @ 7:36 pm

79. 71,going strong need a female friend with benifits.

    Comment by maurice — 7/27/2006 @ 9:51 pm

80. hai whois there

    Comment by saraathkumar — 7/31/2006 @ 3:34 am

81. this is bull shit you stupid fucks

    Comment by david sulouff — 7/31/2006 @ 8:17 pm

82. i enjoy chatting

    Comment by kilo — 8/1/2006 @ 2:44 am

83. hi

    Comment by lucky — 8/1/2006 @ 5:53 am

84. would like to chat

    Comment by biju — 8/2/2006 @ 4:52 am

85. took long enough

    Comment by Shawna — 8/3/2006 @ 1:00 am

86. I was there at the begainning of Yahoo chat. When it was Family oriented. We had alot of fun. There were no Hackers and Booters. We use to be able to use our scripting for entertainment right in the chat rooms. Marquees allowing a small *.gif or *.Jpg to slide from one side of a chat statement line to the other, at most. But those that take advantage of others started. “Man’s Inhumanity to man” begain. Hence, “The Begainning of the end.” Instead of using the laws we have before us, the law abiding citizen were all held responsible. Our privledges were taken in scripting! All the way till what I see. The worst of the worst praying upon our children. Though my children are all adults these days. I understand the need to put these types of LOW LIFES out of action. Where does the law do what it was written for? How many more freedoms are going to be lost to criminals that don’t abide by the law? Why are we writing laws if we are not going to use them. If you are for a minute going to tell me that you can’t catch them here on this platform of communication. I’ll prove you wrong in a heart beat! As I was doing just that to the hackers and booters until FedCirc fell down on the job. It revolved all the way to the Security Departments of the individual ISP. Without them there is no way left to verify the data transmited.
    I being someone who had enough knowledge to Catch Hackers in the act and get enough info for a conviction on those that broke our Computer Fraud and Abuse act of 1984.I nailed 15 total for breaking the Computer Fruad and Abuse act. There in I got to get the first hand experience of seeing FedCirc stop taking any action against those breaking our Laws. This was just after the time when FedCirc was appointed to the place of Homeland Security by our United States President. Also after the ex president of Symantec was appointed Head of FedCirc (Homeland Security. When the problem came to light of Porno and Chat bots coming into Yahoo Chat Rooms. I dug into finding out who and where. I found these Chat Bots and Porno to be coming from the GEO Web Sites. The web Sited rented by Yahoo. Withe further research I found out thse Site Servers were all in LA County in California. It just so happens that that their Vice Squads had just suffered quite a demise. The unit had been lowered to Two Officers for all of LA County. I also learned that Yahoo was the greatest part of the money behind the vote that turned their Vice Unit upside down. This info was made available to the state of Texas almost a year and a half ago. The final outcome of that case against Yahoo never came out. But it was made public that the Yahoo reps were blaming the public at large for the chat bots. Yet the Yahoo Geo Cities were the place they came from. How can an enities profits from such enterprise be over looked from a court of law. Don’t know how, but it looks real obvious to me.
    As far as what that has all developed too, I don’t like seeing “Rights Lost” due to Criminals.
    I’ll take this opportunity to address this other issue!!!
    New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, I’ll address this directly to you. Seeing your my Attorney General. How is it four Sheriffs from Saratoga County still walk around free? This being after it was handed to one of your AAG’s from Buffalo. As he has sat on the case for no one to see for 12 years. The entire occurrance took place in front of several witnresses. Esspecially, when it was Grand Larceny Charges that was handed to your office. I believe that to be the year before you took your office.But it left me at a place were all my belongings were trashed by a political regime and well over $40,000.oo Dollars in Construction equipment was stolen by another type of Low Life that hides behind a badge!!!!! There is no room for corrupt officers in any part of this country. But this extended all the way into the County Seat and back before my property (Construction Equipement) was stolen. Or maybe there are many in the position that don’t like to hear about payment of property tax being refused by the County Teasurer for four years. It extended all the way to another situation of a cover up at the end of 2002 that passed through my life. One where an audit of child support showed undeniable being paid. But the payments never coming out the other side for the children. I think there is alot more than meets the eye in politics these days.
    But, to get back to the subject at hand. The chat room that I use to attend was first called “Firearms Policy”, later to become “The Gun Cabinet”. Mostly frequented by Police Officers, Veteran and Active Servicemen alike, Hunters, Gun Smiths, and NRA members like myself. he only of the Yaqhoo Chatrooms that are left are the Indigenious and Native American chatrooms, which are all young kids.. That there are actual people in. Course to me a young kids start around 30 to there 20’s. The rest are all new named chatrooms, but filled with Chatbots. These being in the categories I use to frequent. But I had not been back until recently. I guess it had been a little less than a year since I was heavily visiting my favorite 5 chatrooms.
    We came close to having a tight community in Union, especially here in the US. But instead, now it’s disolved and the little that’s left is falling apart at the seams. Ain’t Complacency Great, and the end sure does justifies the means.. HORSEFEATHERS

    Comment by Cougar (Lionel) — 8/9/2006 @ 6:34 am

87. very good rule

    Comment by bhupen — 8/13/2006 @ 4:55 am

88. to meet good people

    Comment by mary gopaul — 8/13/2006 @ 3:17 pm

89. i need help with my color e.g 16 16 bit etcetera

    Comment by burratwo — 8/14/2006 @ 7:39 am

90. i love this

    Comment by rachel robles — 8/16/2006 @ 4:06 pm

91. hello lady an one in dubai like the titi

    Comment by MOHD — 8/17/2006 @ 10:52 am

92. I would like to inform you that

    Comment by binod jha — 8/17/2006 @ 11:29 am

93. tyiuopi]

    Comment by divya — 8/20/2006 @ 2:11 am

94. h what is your name

    Comment by tej — 8/24/2006 @ 2:04 am

95. surely i m more than 18 years.would you believe me i m 33 years.itis very precise that it should be closed for under eighteen

    Comment by farhan — 8/28/2006 @ 2:09 pm

96. you people need to go after the “real criminals” like mr spitzer and all others who try to restrict “normal people from communicating with friends this in my opinion is a blatent attempt to restrict free speech and sould be dealt with in the harshes manner possible

    Comment by william — 8/28/2006 @ 9:00 pm

97. I have followed three prostetution rings and met with one. As a former law enforcement officer, I understand. It seems that with ” Death threats and hackers who call your home, after hacking into yahoo, posting your home addy and phone#, the Government has its hands tied. I have Three suspects in the sikeston area and one in Akansas area. When you call and threaten to kill a child I think it needs to be taken serious. Names. Basty, loki, jen_is_evil. All adult romance

    Comment by john — 8/31/2006 @ 8:53 pm

98. Added informatation. Admins tend to have a loaded gun. It used to be, just chat about basic things. Then an admin named bastey, stole my id Thunderwolf and I watched the room for days and listend to voice, as he bragged about how he took peoples i’d’s. Is that professional? What happened to the days you could just chat. Now I am banned from yahoo. It took Three years watching him. As a supervisor, I would terminate him in a heartbeat. But yahoo, likes a bulldog. I should reinterate on the above page when they sent ” Cindy” down this way. A person I had been speaking to off and on. She wanted directions from my area. I made the mistake of giving her my cell #. She was going to a funeral. I said yes I can give you directions just call me, since I was working local. It was a shemale and her pimp. It wanted me to go to a local motel and perform. I said no and wasked why you are going to a funeral in ill, with a tank top on. I watched her pimp look around nervous. After I said no, the ring started. Constant harrasment and being knocked off line. These people are hard to find, but if you sit and watch and compare voice and take note ask about the chat partys, you can find them. I never had a beef with them untimm tom and dave called and threatend to kill me and my family. They were not kids. Adults from minor mo. I still have it on tape. I guess thats why I am banned from Yahoo. Its really sad I can locate these people before law enforcement can. Remember the nics, bastey, Jen_is_evil, loki. Loki has a tatoo on his chest, buterfly, dark hair small. Alton Ill.

    Comment by john — 8/31/2006 @ 9:24 pm

99. forgive me for my spelling. It is late. Just remember these are not always kids. They can be sexual predators or some 13 year old with a mouth. I have vowed to have tom and larry prosecuted and Bastey terminated. Time.

    Comment by john — 8/31/2006 @ 9:45 pm

100. hello people lets chat

     Comment by adam — 9/9/2006 @ 12:52 pm

101. sfwrfewfearf

     Comment by kevin — 9/11/2006 @ 12:41 pm

102. qsS

     Comment by linda — 9/12/2006 @ 2:51 am

103. REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY BUT HI

     Comment by jAMES SANDERS — 9/14/2006 @ 4:34 am

104. i wanna find a girl who take care of me a nice girl …..

     Comment by akeet — 9/14/2006 @ 11:15 am

105. dont charge it for chat i am in dubai my name is bhavesh my birth date 18/6/1973

     Comment by bbhsagar — 9/14/2006 @ 3:09 pm

106. want a girl redy to chat

     Comment by jay — 9/16/2006 @ 7:25 am

107. looking for agood female 18 to25 for friendship

     Comment by naren — 9/18/2006 @ 4:33 am

108. Ithink a healthy relationship always pays and sincere and honest people are mis understood

     Comment by naren — 9/18/2006 @ 4:37 am

109. 0333-3513374

     Comment by a.saeed — 9/18/2006 @ 9:43 pm

110. hai to all

     Comment by soma — 9/21/2006 @ 11:58 pm

111. what it is? kbc’s back the king of VA wanna know more contact king_kbc at yahoo dot com

     Comment by kuda — 9/22/2006 @ 2:47 am

112. hope here will help me

     Comment by sally — 9/23/2006 @ 5:45 am

113. hi

     Comment by sally — 9/23/2006 @ 5:54 am

114. nooooooooooooooooo coment

     Comment by mila — 9/24/2006 @ 6:09 am

115. want to chat

     Comment by LUTFI — 9/25/2006 @ 10:43 pm

116. hello frnd

     Comment by rohit — 9/26/2006 @ 7:52 am

117. no comment

     Comment by mahendra — 9/26/2006 @ 10:22 am

118. love u

     Comment by ubaid — 9/27/2006 @ 6:28 am

119. sexy

     Comment by ubaid — 9/28/2006 @ 11:44 am

120. jdwe idkd his butt kimp

     Comment by savanah — 9/28/2006 @ 9:07 pm

121. Hi

     Comment by John — 9/29/2006 @ 8:17 pm

122. im 25 year old looking for a female from the ages of 20 to 30 looking for a good time

     Comment by kenny — 9/30/2006 @ 2:59 am

123. hi

     Comment by ich — 9/30/2006 @ 12:40 pm

124. groovy!!!

     Comment by tonya — 9/30/2006 @ 10:51 pm

125. groovy

     Comment by tonya james — 9/30/2006 @ 10:52 pm

126. hai

     Comment by Modha — 10/1/2006 @ 3:50 am

127. hhh

     Comment by Modha — 10/1/2006 @ 3:52 am

128. my ID is dfflg at yahoo dot com . any girls like to came friend

     Comment by sanu — 10/1/2006 @ 4:19 am

129. what someone to have fun with

     Comment by tammy25 — 10/1/2006 @ 6:16 pm

130. any men out there

     Comment by tammy25 — 10/1/2006 @ 6:19 pm

131. YYYEEEAAAHHH!! Its about time we stand!!! PROTECT OUR CHILDREN!! I knew there was people out there cared.PROTECT THE CHILDREN AT ALL COST!!!!

     Comment by LUKE — 10/2/2006 @ 5:10 pm

132. gdfgfg

     Comment by sam — 10/4/2006 @ 5:55 pm

133. nice

     Comment by bash — 10/7/2006 @ 11:17 pm

134. FIRST OF ALL I WOULD LIKE TO COMMECT ON THIS SUBJECT ITS THE D*M PARENDS FALT FOR NOT LOCKING DOWN THE COMPUTER AT LATE NIGHT OR EARLY MORNINGS AND IF THE PARENDS WOULD DO THERE JOB LIKE THEY POST TO DO WE WOUNT HAVE THIS PROBLEM SO NOTE TO THE PARENDS LOOK AT DOWNLOAD HISTORY,HISTORY,COOKIES,CACHES,DO SEARCHS ON YOUR COMPUTER FOR HINDING IMAGES OR CHATS AND NOTE TO ALL THESE YOUNGER KIDS STAY OFF THE CHAT ROOMS OR ANY MYSPACE CRAP IF YOUR NOT THE ILLEGAL AGE TO DO AND WHEN THE WEBSITE SAYS 18+ OLDER THEY MEAN IT AND NOT TRY TO MAKE PROFILES SAYING YOUR 18 BECAUSE YAHOO OR ANY THESE BIG SITES WILL TRACK YOUR IP ADDRESS AND YOUR MAC ADDRESS OFF YOUR COMPUTER SO YOUNG KIDS PLEASE STAY OFF OF THE CHAT ROOMS AND PARENTS BEFORE YOU GO TO BED MAKE SURE YOU LOCK THE COMPUTERS UP AND PUT A PASSWORD SO THAT YOUR KIDS WOUNT KNOW IT

     Comment by n/a — 10/8/2006 @ 9:01 pm

135. buscar amigas

     Comment by jose — 10/9/2006 @ 4:43 pm

136. iwant to sbeak to any girl onlin

     Comment by kamal — 10/12/2006 @ 5:08 pm

137. this is fuck offffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

     Comment by saxy — 10/13/2006 @ 11:08 am

138. this is so bad word u r saying no u all should be ashamed of yourselvs

     Comment by luscy — 10/13/2006 @ 10:14 pm

139. hi hun how r u i’m sami

     Comment by sami — 10/14/2006 @ 3:37 am

140. ite wubu2 l8ly

     Comment by balini — 10/15/2006 @ 12:20 am

141. fun loving enjoys making new freind and memories

     Comment by linda1746 — 10/15/2006 @ 10:28 am

142. i am caring and honest person,and i dont discriminate.

     Comment by tobi lawal — 10/15/2006 @ 2:18 pm

143. hello ppl

     Comment by princess — 10/15/2006 @ 4:26 pm

144. df

     Comment by sunny — 10/15/2006 @ 9:14 pm

145. this is ARAVIND contact me to this cell no:9884594262 i need a frienship with you dont mistake me

     Comment by aravind — 10/16/2006 @ 2:34 am

146. this is ARAVIND contact me to this cell no:9884594262 i need a frienship with you dont mistake me. especially linda iam waitin for your messag nnot only linda evrybody i am a loyola guy

     Comment by aravind — 10/16/2006 @ 2:39 am

147. care for each other and make good friends

     Comment by siddesh — 10/16/2006 @ 11:19 pm

148. no

     Comment by sk12 — 10/17/2006 @ 12:25 am

149. i love u

     Comment by lanet — 10/17/2006 @ 1:19 pm

150. im a gay man looking for gay chatrooms can you HELP

     Comment by willgayman — 10/19/2006 @ 1:06 pm

151. HEY IAM LOOKING FOR A GIRLFRIEND THAT 23TO24

     Comment by BABYGIRL304 — 10/22/2006 @ 3:20 pm

152. jfgkfgkf

     Comment by nicole — 10/22/2006 @ 4:07 pm

153. i think it is a good thing that you have to be 18to many sick people in this world for young girls

     Comment by nicole — 10/22/2006 @ 4:09 pm

154. Hi ladies there! That’s it.

     Comment by Frank. — 10/24/2006 @ 3:49 am

155. Actually i signed in 2 find friends, so if u have the same thought as i do, contact me on nfrankwarren at yahoo dot com. Rachel, u can be my friend, not so?

     Comment by Frank. — 10/24/2006 @ 3:54 am

156. hi

     Comment by venky — 10/24/2006 @ 1:34 pm

157. It’s a good thing that you people closed down the yahoo chatroom else i’d have raped many more sexy teens.My name is abdoulah Ramzakhkhan sentipi and i’m a serial rapist.Nobody(no polcemen from any of the pats of the world)has been able to arrest me).I’m gonna continue to rape young teens!!!Astalavista baby!!!P.s. Is there any other free chatroom where i could find more victims?Thanks in advance!!!

     Comment by Taliban — 10/26/2006 @ 8:22 pm

158. It’s a good thing that you people closed down the yahoo chatroom else i’d have raped many more sexy teens.My name is abdoulah Ramzakhkhan sentipi and i’m a serial rapist.Nobody(no policemen from any of the pats of the world)has been able to arrest me).I’m gonna continue to rape young teens!!!Astalavista baby!!!P.s. Is there any other free chatroom where i could find more victims?Thanks in advance!!!

     Comment by Taliban — 10/26/2006 @ 8:22 pm

159. Is this a sort of chatroom?Well.I’m an 18 year old extremely cute and handsome guy searching for some fun on the internet and in real life as well if possible.Let’s chat over here babes.I dn’t mind women between 30-45.I love mauture women.See ya babies.Love ya all!Mwah!!!Post ur comment here itself!!!

     Comment by Aji — 10/26/2006 @ 8:26 pm

160. can i please chat now

     Comment by tykeyah — 10/28/2006 @ 11:42 am

161. no comment

     Comment by abeer — 10/28/2006 @ 12:53 pm

162. good

     Comment by thampi — 10/29/2006 @ 4:54 pm

163. hey this is mike

     Comment by spyd — 10/29/2006 @ 10:57 pm

164. Hey ladies

     Comment by TRU — 10/29/2006 @ 11:43 pm

165. Anyone ?

     Comment by TRU — 10/29/2006 @ 11:43 pm

166. l have black hair, black eyes. my length is 1,85 m.

     Comment by micheal10 — 10/30/2006 @ 4:31 am

167. It was time for it kids need to be kids again and use the internet as little as possible and then the parents monitor there children

     Comment by donna — 10/31/2006 @ 1:49 pm

168. i want to chat

     Comment by hasan — 11/1/2006 @ 6:57 am

169. Make the users on the personals sites put in their Drivers license, have it check the DOTs database, do a check against the credit card and address they provide. deterring teens more.

     Comment by User — 11/1/2006 @ 11:29 am

170. And whats with all the garbage posts?

     Comment by User — 11/1/2006 @ 11:30 am

171. btw, Parents can infact control what they do, especially if they use IE. Go to Tools | Internet Options | Content, and under the Content Advisor section click Enable. You can also set a password to where the PARENT has to come and approve the site they go to.

     Comment by User — 11/1/2006 @ 11:49 am

172. rephrase post 168. DPS’ not DOT’s databsae

     Comment by User — 11/1/2006 @ 12:02 pm

173. nice

     Comment by kal — 11/2/2006 @ 12:42 am

174. dkkkkkkk jj

     Comment by raju — 11/2/2006 @ 6:10 am

175. do you like to have sex anytime you can

     Comment by mike — 11/2/2006 @ 4:23 pm

176. I WANT TO FUCK YOU SO BAD THAT IS ONLY IF YOU ARE A GIRL

     Comment by mike — 11/2/2006 @ 4:24 pm

177. Sorry mike, im a guy.
     btw, Yahoo doesnt allow you to post you yim screen name in your intro, even if you choose to be contacted using yim in yahoo personals. how retarted is that?

     Comment by User — 11/2/2006 @ 8:59 pm

178. hi im lookin for an older women to chat maybe more,im 28,m,

     Comment by AL — 11/4/2006 @ 8:03 am

179. thanku for making me meet with many friends its interesting and fun too

     Comment by zab — 11/5/2006 @ 7:36 am

180. yeah thiers a lot of crazy ppl here

     Comment by ronnie — 11/5/2006 @ 11:05 pm

181. this place sucks cu’s

     Comment by ronnie — 11/5/2006 @ 11:11 pm

182. well thats it for all of us i hope the fun was fun but yeah yahoo ur too dam shitty any’way jk lol and i just got on for the frist time and it said must be 18 i was what the hell is going on here then i was like porn site no yahoo well I’ll be dam ,, any ways i am clint the pimp from canada i live in kenora and it sucks here big time i wish i live in the sates meet better honeys…. cl i n t_c a m p b e l l 911@ h ot m ail. com

     Comment by clint campbell — 11/7/2006 @ 12:29 pm

183. I am pleased that you must be 18 or older to get in the chat rooms .Since the chatrooms were for chat.The most important thing is I went to yahoo chatand chatting with all who would chat and I was chatting with a FEMALE AND I ASKED Asl(age sex and location)and she had hesitated and asked me the same.I told her and told me but she lied and said a wrong age and I figured out that she was only 16and I was very upset since she was under aged quaote minor and here parents probly had no Idea of whom she chats with on the computer and I ignored her and told her that If she tryed to chat with me I would send a message to her parents and tell them what she’s been doing with their knowledge.

     Comment by tigerman7304 — 11/7/2006 @ 11:14 pm

184. hay i am looking to have some fun and meet new people to chat with 24 feamle idaho

     Comment by amanda — 11/8/2006 @ 1:09 pm

185. hay i am looking to have some fun and meet new people to chat with 24 feamle idaho
     so ya can we chat

     Comment by amanda — 11/8/2006 @ 1:10 pm

186. wow wee

     Comment by wow wee — 11/8/2006 @ 4:44 pm

187. its me shefz anyone interested to talk with me

     Comment by shafeeza — 11/8/2006 @ 11:55 pm

188. hi there anyone wonna talk to me

     Comment by jay — 11/9/2006 @ 12:39 am

189. hi there anyone wonna talk to me

     Comment by jay — 11/9/2006 @ 12:39 am

190. hi tigerman how r u am 18 with brown hair female wb xxxx

     Comment by jay — 11/9/2006 @ 12:46 am

191. hey

     Comment by FooL — 11/9/2006 @ 10:35 am

192. dut dut dut dutre

     Comment by kathy — 11/11/2006 @ 5:41 am

193. oh oh there you go again talking cenamatic,yeah you you’re charming like everybodys track star,I know how you always seem to go for the obvious instead of me but buy a ticket and youll see If we were a movie than youd be the right guy and i’d be the best friend that you fell in love with in the end we were laughing watching the sunset,fade to black show the name play the happy song—- wish i could tell you there a twist some kind of hero in disguise oh no no but there is nothing————if we were a movie than youd be the right guy and id be the best friend that you fell in love with in the end we were laughing watching the sunset, fade to black show the name play the happy song——-

     Comment by kathy — 11/11/2006 @ 5:46 am

194. i am cool
     inocent, sincetive
     and like a good frnd
     dont add me any one just looking cool frnd

     Comment by rai_moin — 11/12/2006 @ 11:14 am

195. GOD IS A GOOD GOD TIME IS RUNNING OUT REPENT FROM DOING WRONG GREAT IS THE LORD AMEN AMEN.

     Comment by shawn — 11/13/2006 @ 7:18 am

196. i think this is a great idea for the chat room because i have young kids and the chat rooms are filled with sexual peditors alll they eant are young people to molest and still there inocent lives.

     Comment by jamie — 11/14/2006 @ 5:11 pm

197. My comment is Chat room . i want Create chat room in yahoo
     but here is no option in Create chat room Pleas i want chat room

     Comment by Shakeel Ahmed — 11/15/2006 @ 10:14 am

198. for the gay man on line 150 have you tried gay.com it has many chat rooms thanks.

     Comment by michelle — 11/16/2006 @ 10:31 pm

199. fjkgkl;fjklrejg

     Comment by jason — 11/18/2006 @ 8:29 pm

200. joe p is gay

     Comment by jason — 11/18/2006 @ 8:30 pm

201. If they can have rooms that ban anyone younger then 18 why can’t they create chat rooms that ban anyone older then 18. I am 16 I really liked chatting with others especcially in the Christian Teen rooms, I am home schooled and it was great to chat with others of the same beliefs and age. I just wish there was still something out there. and yes I use to get messages from perverts but its everyones own responsibility to block or ignore them.

     Comment by Christin — 11/22/2006 @ 10:20 pm

202. i am the best

     Comment by mohsin — 11/23/2006 @ 5:05 am

203. hallo

     Comment by naveen — 11/30/2006 @ 10:54 am

204. hai

     Comment by chprao — 11/30/2006 @ 10:56 am

205. gfuyiyu

     Comment by em — 12/22/2006 @ 7:44 am

206. hello

     Comment by es — 1/3/2007 @ 5:21 am

207. I Love to make friends

     Comment by pankaj — 1/8/2007 @ 2:00 pm

208. to whom it may concern i fell that it is not fair to the people who have not done anything wrong for us not to be able to go to chatrooms.

     Comment by nina — 1/10/2007 @ 3:52 pm

209. hello

     Comment by rocobaroco — 1/13/2007 @ 12:53 am

210. i am harshal . i dote to make friend

     Comment by harshal — 1/14/2007 @ 2:43 am

211. hi

     Comment by shaun — 1/14/2007 @ 7:43 pm

212. howei nei awe fkefkmdfnas ‘pdf

     Comment by kk — 1/16/2007 @ 8:57 pm

213. Comment to #6 BOB and everyone else calling caring PARENTS BITCHES - Do you have any children? Do you know where they are every minute of the day? Just FYI - My 13 yr old son is not allowed on the fucken internet. I watch him like a dog! I am very internet savvy and can find out anything I want to know EVEN if he were to gain access. GUESS WHAT!!! I find out through my own research that he has a profile on MYSPACE.COM and has had for several months. And he did create that profile at my house!!!! He created that profile and will chat while at friends, grandparents, etc. POINT IS - BEFORE YOU START CALLING OUT BITCH TO CARING PARENTS. FUCK FREE SPEECH - SICK FUCKERS LIKE U MAKE THIS WORLD AN UNPLEASANT PLACE. I SEE YOU EXCERSISE YOUR FREE SPEECH JUST CUZ U CAN. LET ME USE MY FREE SPEACH NOW - FUCK THE INTERNET, FUCK MYSPACE, AOL, YAHOO - THEY ARE NOT DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN. PEOPLE JUST LIKE U ABUSE THE FREE SPEECH SUCH AS GETTING ON MESSENGERS, PREYING ON CHILDREN AND YELLING “FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH”, I CAN TELL ANY 13 YEAR OLD HOW I WANT TO STICK MY THING IN HER, HOW BIG I AM, AND HOW I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE HER CUM 5 TIMES AND HOW I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A BLOW JOB. OK….MR FREE SPEECH - DO YOU KNOW WHAT UR DADDY IS DOING? MAYBE UR WIFE, UR BROTHER, UR SON IS DOING ON THE INTERNET - I THINK ONLY THE GUILTY ARE YELLING FREE SPEECH. YOUR YOUR RIGHTS APPROPRIATELY. THAT IS OK - THE LAW IS CRACKING DOWN YOU U SICK FREE SPEECH BITCHES - U WILL BE CAUGHT!!!! WATCH DATELINE SOMETIME!!!!

     SMILES

     Comment by Penny — 1/20/2007 @ 1:39 am

214. iwant to catch a foreign friend

     Comment by priya — 1/22/2007 @ 2:24 am

215. do any one kno where you can chat online bacc and forth with someone r leave a chatroom web site

     Comment by lonely soul — 1/22/2007 @ 4:05 pm

216. Hey Whta is up yall ppls are crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Comment by Amber — 1/23/2007 @ 9:35 am

217. Yahoo is a joke. When it comes to saftey they have no clue. Whether its our children or hackers. If enough people were to BOYCOTT yahoo they woud step up. I will soon be filing a lawsuit against yahoo for several reasons. I ask all to BOYCOTT yahoo. Until they abide by the laws our govern ment has put into place, yahoo will continue to be no better than a playground for many. Yahoo wont even enforce its own terms and conditions in any form. People stand up…Start your own BOYCOTT in your own town or city. Let others know. I will tell you.. the music chatrooms are the worst for perverts, pedifiles, hackers, and online prostitution. BOYCOTT the internet?.. Hell yeah.. BOYCOTT yahoo.

     Comment by Bobby — 1/23/2007 @ 11:08 pm

218. I can not see how doing away with the chatrooms will do away with the pedifiles. I see it as a great place to expose them.the pedifiles are just going to go some place elese. Use the Yahoo chat rooms to set them up.

     Comment by Woody — 1/24/2007 @ 12:53 pm

219. I think its about time this got sorted.their r 2 many freaks in the world and i think even though kids do silly things (we all did once)does not giv sicko pedophiles the right 2 play their sick fantasies onto young kids.i personally feel that peodophiles should be shot on the spot.at the end of the day a young kid cant protect themselves and even when parents r around it only takes a second 4 them 2 b in danger.and pedophiles know this!

     Comment by LQ — 1/29/2007 @ 5:17 pm

220. I think that it is a good idea ! ! !

     Comment by Ed — 2/2/2007 @ 6:39 pm

221. The problem in the internet world of perverts will be anywhere you go, look at myspace for example. also I don’t back the things Yahoo has done in the last year and a half, all they’re doing is looking for money. Yahoo cares nothing about your childs safety!. Yahoo merges with MSN? why you think? so they can start charging for it just like MSN has started to do. Now look at this, Yahoo took user rooms away cause of the names of some of them and dangers to kids I understand..but don’t you think that they should have just made it where you couldn’t make certain rooms depending on what was included in the room name? (porn, child lookin for man, etc). Yahoo has turned so gay that hardly any kids are even going to use it anymore, and besides, a child should know better than to be internet molested and sure the fuck should know not to set up meetings with somebody from the internet. I personally believe that the parents need to step the fuck up and take control.

     Comment by Yahoo Admin — 2/7/2007 @ 8:08 am

222. want a female chatter

     Comment by bearmann — 2/15/2007 @ 1:51 am

223. You sound so sexy

     Comment by loulou — 2/17/2007 @ 2:01 pm

224. HELLO

     Comment by RAVAN_20002 — 2/20/2007 @ 12:37 am

225. HI

     Comment by KIMO — 2/23/2007 @ 4:38 am

226. I just want to chat about politics, current events in this country and the world at large..

     Comment by etphome4444 — 2/26/2007 @ 12:50 pm

227. it’s ok

     Comment by steef — 3/2/2007 @ 7:24 pm

228. it’s ok i’m over than 18

     Comment by steef — 3/2/2007 @ 7:26 pm

229. hi just to say heelo

     Comment by max — 3/16/2007 @ 5:20 pm

230. hay whats up all

     Comment by Kim — 3/19/2007 @ 10:37 pm

231. whats up

     Comment by shawn — 4/24/2007 @ 9:17 am

232. im over 18 im 35 18/8/1971 how can i found fetishes roomes

     Comment by sir kh — 5/27/2007 @ 9:56 am

233. i a nice day

     Comment by budman — 9/18/2007 @ 9:51 am

234. lawl, gonna be hard to get sluts on cam now. shrugs

     Comment by jerm — 9/29/2007 @ 4:54 pm

235. i want to sex

     Comment by phonix — 10/25/2007 @ 10:25 pm

236. hi

     Comment by mike — 12/30/2007 @ 4:59 am

237. to meet big babes

     Comment by kallah — 1/28/2008 @ 6:51 am

238. Love this

     Comment by Kamaka — 3/10/2008 @ 4:42 pm

239. bored anyone wanna chat

     Comment by izzie — 4/9/2008 @ 9:43 pm

240. please let me thanks for protecting iur kids from perfs

     Comment by sue — 4/20/2008 @ 3:37 pm

241. speachles!

     Comment by imdmayorkd — 6/14/2008 @ 9:07 pm

242. wow yall are crazy! I think you should be 18 to be in a chat room and for parents who are saying they can just say they are 18 or use proof from somewhere else why dont the parents lock the websites? duh! yahoo shouldnt start charging…plus if the parents were watching their kids more closely while they were online yahoo wouldnt have this problem in the first place

     Comment by Savannah — 8/5/2008 @ 9:31 pm

243. it is nice to join the people comming from each and every part of the world

     Comment by ahmed khan — 9/6/2008 @ 1:54 am

244. it is called cyoa just like when they closed the user rooms and after 1 person has said it no reason to keep ranting about parenting simple fact is kids are smart tell em they cant…and they will…it is the New York Attorney General who needs educated along with the rest of law enforcement but oh wait…. most of them have degrees and think they know it all lol.. they teach kids how to use computers in school by 2nd grade here..what do ya think they know about them by the time they reach the 7th? Yeah pedophiles exist and the kids know it and most over the age of 12-15 are chasing adults doesnt matter if its a male or a female its still happening yall need to really step back and pay attention for a week without posting or talking just sit and watch it will be an education u will neva forget about who does what on yahoo

     Comment by Leo Yahright — 9/7/2008 @ 8:59 pm

245. okay let me tell you guys something this is a very dangerous sight for people and especially for teenies okay i know im 1 2 but im a teen and i hate it woow

     Comment by angel — 2/9/2009 @ 5:09 am

246. that sux @$$. i’m gonna be 12 on sep 5th && i think chatrooms r fine. i get bad messeges in there but i just call them a pervtard then ignore them. if they keep messeging me then threaten to tell the cops.

     Comment by ada — 9/4/2009 @ 9:34 pm

247. i passed18 yrs but i cant chat in yahoo chat room im tried about that i really hate yahoo i wann put some naught word for yahoo but i cnt u know why but yahoo ’s really my good frn it helps to time pass when i will bor,,.m’;

     Comment by jack — 12/4/2009 @ 9:17 pm

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