ASL and stats please...

I've been chatting for more than a decade.

For sure, a part of what I am right now is because of ICQ, MIRC and YM.

Without the chatrooms in the late 90's, I would have not probably met the people whom I had my first sexual encounters with: the person who first tasted and swallowed my cum and the person who taught me about sex.

Without the chatrooms, I would have not probably met two of my ex's.

Without the chatrooms, I would have not met Centurion, the leader of Engkantadya.

Without the chatrooms, I would have not become a "slut" during my younger days.
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I was a chat addict. I would be up late at night chatting with different kinds of people. I was an ICQ and MIRC tambay, I was a popular member of a Yahoo chatroom, and I was known to be a showboy years ago.

I'm not exactly sure what attracted me to chatting but it did become a venue where I was able to express myself to strangers. There was no fear of judgment especially when I told them my story.

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After the demise of the YM personal chatrooms, chatters like me looked for alternatives. MIRC became famous once again. Channels like Bi-Manila, Pinoysex, and Salsalan suddenly rose from the dead. But the chatters's interest on these channels would wane once again.

The culprit: GUYS4MEN!

This new website wasn't just a social networking site. It was a site complete with chatrooms, forums and messaging functions.

The website's popularity among the gay and bi population went up.

People were creating profiles, sending messages to guys they like and created different forums for discussion.

Chatting was not just limited to the website's chatroom but also in the site's different forums created by individual users.

ASL became a regular fixture in messages sent to people in the website. Then followed by a query asking for your stats which includes height, weight and other physical attributes.

Guys4men became the most popular dating site among the gay and bi population of the Philippines. You can just search for the person in your location or people who like you, and alas, you may have your sex partner or life partner infront of your computer screen.

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But G4M is not just meant for dating or sex because I have met good friends through this site.

Thanks to the thread created by Centurion in 2007, I met the Engkantos.

With the demise of G4M and the rise of PR, I'm sure that there will be more chatting and dating in cyberworld.

As for me, I am already contented with my Engkanto friends, Blogspot buddies and Twitter friends.

No more ASL and stats for me.

I'm hanging up my chatting jersey for now...