a place for conversation?

Where do you go in SL for conversation, in open chat or voice?

You could try an info hub.

The forum cartel group is pretty chatty.

infohubs I would not reccomend for voice, my experience at an infohub was of racist and sexist chat in voice.

I don't go anywhere in particular, sometimes meetings are arranged where the choice of users is in voice, maybe search events for discussions and see what turns up.

How about the forum cartel hangout? Is there ever anyone there?



But at least it was actual conversation, right? I've noticed that Ahern often hosts young British people talking crap in the latenight USA times (they must wake up early), and it's not to my liking, but at least it's real human contact. So, they found a place for it. I say good for them.



I hope this isn't the only answer I'm ever going to get. Surely someone must have some actual, personal experience? Can nobody name a specific place? A place they actually go to? I'm not looking for hearsay or instructions. I'm looking for specific places where people actually do hang out.

The Cartel Hangout can be a lively place, or it can be quiet as a library. It just depends on when you get there. Last night I was there for almost 8 hours, and 3 different groups came through during that time, and there was a lot going on. It is a crapshoot. The best thing is to Join the Group, and if you feel like socializing and no one is there, give a shout in the Group Chat. Usually someone will show up. I'm starting to spend more time their. There also is a free HUD you can get there that tells you who is at the hangout. There is a Halloween Party in the works as well. Parties there are always good fun.

Depends how broad-minded you are.

There's a campfire I hang out at because there's more lively humorous banter in Local Chat than I've found anywhere else.

It has an amusing casual role-play quality - you won't find much, if any "what's your RL age/sex/location" there.

But the sim is adult and not just human - so what's going on around you might not be to your taste.

Generally the NCI or Caledon newbie-places so I can also help when required. It's getting worse though; last night I started going on tour to any sim I could find with double-figure occupancy, just to see if there were real people and not just bots. Apart from the difficulty in just finding a sim that wasn't empty, or almost so, 6 of 10 were populated just by bots deep underground or miles in the sky.

I have always found good chat Monday nights from roughly 6-9 at World Music Night at Madhu's Cafe. (It does get canceled from time to time as RL dictates.)

My house.

It's kind of like the Cartel Hangout. If I sit around for a little while, someone will IM me, wanting a visit and a chat, or some stranger will wander by.

It's more certain to happen if I try to do some serious work like building.

How come YOU never call me?

Which reminds me that I was the winner at the First Annual Forum Cartel Halloween Party Horror Movies Trivia Quiz.

/takes bow

When voice was very first introduced, I was working my way through The Grand Tour chapter in "Second Life: the official guide" and happened into The Elbow Room, a chat/dance hangout that gained renown for being built on only a 512 sqm plot. I said hello when I entered and, although there were quite a few people there (relatively speaking due to it being a 512), no one responded. I sat down and finally someone said, "We're all on voice."

Ahhh, ok. Didn't have a headset at the time so moved on.

A few weeks later, headset in hand, or on head, I returned. There was just one couple there but they, too were talking in voice. (Nice people - they helped me to set up the SL voice controls.)

Soooo...if The Elbow Room still exists, that would be my suggestion for a place to chat/voice.

I think I have my Forum Cartel toggle set to library...

I'm a local chat and group chat sort of person. I'm always frustrated that groups in SL tend to disapprove of chattiness.

So I tend to end up going for an assortment of dance clubs. Anywhere where local chat is active with conversation and not club spam or too much IMing.

I've built a chat-coffee-house, but not done any work to promote it, so its idle for now, just another quiet and unused build in SL. Eventually I plan to change that.

I'll drop by for an americano.

Look for The Shelter, I've never once gone there at any time of the day or night and not found a crowd there chatting.

I have a couple'a places I go. One is Virgil's Music Cafe, which you can run a search for, the other I'll tell you about when I'm sure you're not annoying. =) No offense intended, but think about it, would you want a stranger coming to your hangouts and telling everyone you recommended them if they WERE annoying?

Come to Virgil's. Not much voice going on there, but live chat is usually great during shows.

Take care,
Eris!