whats the deal with all those commercials for phone chats?

DarkManX

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it seems like in the last several years all these commercials popped up for "phone chats for singles" like "lavalife" and etc... how do they make money? are they even real? i cant immagine anyone calling in to meet people.
 

Ktulu

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Isn't that sort of a step backward considering how much more technologically advanced we are?
 

yowolabi

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I've been single and wanted to meet new people, but I never even considered a chat line. I also wonder who calls those things.
 

Ktulu

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Originally posted by: yowolabi
I've been single and wanted to meet new people, but I never even considered a chat line. I also wonder who calls those things.

Same people that would be on an online chat room if they had an internet connection.
 

DarkManX

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Originally posted by: Ktulu
Originally posted by: yowolabi
I've been single and wanted to meet new people, but I never even considered a chat line. I also wonder who calls those things.

Same people that would be on an online chat room if they had an internet connection.

but chatrooms are free...and u can talk to multiple people, and possibly see them... just makes no sense to me!
 

yowolabi

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Originally posted by: DarkManX
Originally posted by: Ktulu
Originally posted by: yowolabi
I've been single and wanted to meet new people, but I never even considered a chat line. I also wonder who calls those things.

Same people that would be on an online chat room if they had an internet connection.

but chatrooms are free...and u can talk to multiple people, and possibly see them... just makes no sense to me!

That point about an internet connection is a good one. Because i've never been without the internet in the past 10 years, I tend to assume everyone has a computer, an internet connection, and the ability to find a chat room online.
 

kranky

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Those companies partner with cable companies, and the cable companies only broadcast those ads to customers who fit the profile of lonely, gullible young males with credit cards. :p

So, um, that's what I've heard, anyway. Yeah.
 

zeruty

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Originally posted by: yowolabi
I've been single and wanted to meet new people, but I never even considered a chat line. I also wonder who calls those things.

When I was 16, I had a girlfriend who was 13. One day when I was over at her house, her 11 year old sister was entertaining herself by calling one of those chatlines and talking dirty to the guys on there...