Free Private Chat Rooms

Free Private Chat Rooms vs. IM

Private chat rooms are similar to popular free Instant Messaging (IM) programs such as Yahoo! IM, ICQ, and MSN Messenger. Two or more people meet in a virtual location and have a private conversation. Most IM programs allow the chatters to invite more than one person, making the conversation between two or more people completely private. IM does not allow random people to pop in on a private conversation.

Free private chat rooms sometimes have desirable features not offered by some IM programs:

• Many free chat rooms for private use do not require a download, whereas IM programs require registration and users have to download software programs directly onto their computers.
• Some private chat rooms available without charge are free of pop-up ads, banner ads, and other annoying features.
• Users who have firewalls on their work or school computers may be able to get around the restrictions by using a website that offers free chat rooms for private use.
• While some IM programs only work with certain computers, Internet-based chat rooms that are free and available for private conversations will work with any computer that has access to the Internet.

Some users also enjoy the sense of ownership that can come with creating their own private chat room for free.

Choose a Site

Choosing a website to use for your free private chat room can be a daunting task since there are so many available options. Don't sign up for any website that requires credit card information or other personal information that can be used to steal your identity. Remember: A website that is truly free should not require this type of data.

Here is a brief list of some of the websites available online offering private chat rooms for free:

• Chatzy: This website is easy to use. Users simply create a room and invite friends to join the chat using an automated e-mail. There is no complicated registration or fees involved.
• Date Hook Up is a dating website that offers private chat rooms for free, but is designed for people looking to find a date as opposed to people who just want to chat with friends.
• Chat Forum allows users to create free chat rooms for their own private websites. This feature can also be used on commercial websites.
• Yaba is a social networking website that features private chat rooms for free. Users create the room and then send the uniquely generated code to friends.

There are plenty of other websites online that offer private chat rooms at no charge. A quick Internet search will yield many suitable results.

Invite Friends to Chat

The procedure for inviting friends into your private chat room after it has been created varies from one site to another. The two most common scenarios for inviting other chatters into the room include:

• E-mail invitation: The creator of the chat room e-mails a link to invite chatters into the room. Either the website creates and sends the e-mail for the user or instead presents a template with a hyperlink for the user to copy and paste into the body of an invitation e-mail.
• Unique code: The creation of the chat room results in a unique invitation code that is given to the user, who then in turn gives the access code to anyone he or she wants to invite to participate. When invited visitors go to the site they will be asked to input the unique code to prove they were invited by the original user.

Private chat can be a great way to stay in touch with friends or to conduct business via the Internet. It's an even better idea when it's free of charge.