Pick who you'd like to chat with. Choose as many as you like.
Start at step 1 to set up your chat — it only takes a few seconds.
Start at Step 1 →Americans are a chatty bunch, and a popular name can attract a stream of private messages within minutes. The choice on this screen limits that stream. Tick whichever groups you'd welcome a one-to-one message from. Anybody else is still free to reply where everyone can see, yet a private conversation needs your say-so.
Share a state or a time zone, never a street or employer. That rule of thumb protects you here and in all our chat rooms online.
Looking for someone in your own region? Say "anyone in Texas?" in the room rather than messaging people cold. It works well in the free chat rooms online too, when the US room is slow.
Not privately, unless you allow it.
Yes, as many as you like.
A state or time zone is plenty. Keep your town and street private.
Yes, before you enter.
Coast-to-coast Canadian chat, in English.
Chat with people from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
A classic group chat room. Topics change all the time and anyone can join in.
The main lobby and the busiest room on the site. Whoever is online right now, from every country, starts here.