MSN's Chatrooms Go Silent - No One Notices

from the hmm,-look-at-this-other-chat-room-over-here dept

As announced earlier, MSN began shutting down their chat rooms today in order to "protect the children" (or, as some have said, perhaps to protect potential revenue from instant messaging software). Of course, most people didn't notice or care, because they simply opened up a different website with a different chat room and went right on chatting away.

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