How To Meet Others

HOW TO MEET OTHERS

There are many ways to meet others online. You can meet guys through IRC, Chat Rooms, E-mail, Profiles, Personal Profiles, etc... Here I'm going to explain to you the different venues of interaction.

GAYHAVEN.NET - The premier and best location to meet others. Offered at Gay Haven are: Java Chat Rooms, Personal Profile, Personals, Message Boards, and much more coming soon at the low low price of FREE.

IRC - Internet Relay Chat, which is a Shareware service which you can download from MIRC. Once you download it, there are numerous servers which you can log into. Many of them have chatrooms for gay teens. I have searched most of these servers. Here is a list of some GAY TEEN chat rooms on IRC that I have found:

UNDERNET CHANNELS

EFNET CHANNELS

DALNET CHANNELS

#gayteensex | #gayteenboyz | #gayouth_support | #gayteen | #KewlBoyzPlace

Yahoo - Yahoo.com has many useful resources to help you meet people online. They have gay personal ads, gay teen chat rooms, profiles and clubs. For more information and details on these resources that Yahoo offers. Yahoo chat is easy. If you already have an account with yahoo (it's free and anonymous), all that you have to do is scroll down and click on the "Start Chatting" button. If you don't have a yahoo account, just follow the simple instructions to get one. Once you begin chatting, click on "change room" located in the "tools" section in the lower-left corner. Then click on "Teen" which is a subdirrectory of "Cultures and Communities". Then click on "User rooms", the scroll down until you see "HOT BI/GAY GUYS ONLY" - or something like that. This is the gay teen chat room that I use, however, I am sure that there are more. Feel free to look around. Along with Yahoo Chat, Yahoo also offers personal adds. Simply follow the dirrections at the site - It is fairly self-explainitory. The youngest age that you are allowed to post at is 18, so if you are younger, you will have to say that you are 18, and tell people individually when they respond. This is not a typical way to find people. What you can do here is search for people. One method that I have tried is searching for the word "gay" within a certain age group. It's not the most efficient way to look, but it may be worth a try.

Planet Out - Planet Out has the largest collections of gay personals anywhere. There are tons of gay teen personals as well with no age limit.

eGroups - eGroups now officially part of Yahoo check it out at groups.yahoo.com. Egroups is a site with email lists. This is by far the largest of these "email communities", with many topics. There are dozens of gay teen communities. Click here to view my list of Egroups communities of interest to gay teens

Gay.com - Gay.com is the most extensive gay chat service I have ever seen. While most of the guys are older, there are some teens that chat there, and there is a youth section as well. Definitely check it out.

Planet Out and Gay.com are fierce rivals. While Gay.com is oriented more towards chat, the strength of Planet Out is its personal ads. They have the largest number of gay personal ads I've ever seen. Not only is the quantity high, but the quality is excellent. The personal ads are very extensive, and easy to search. Also, no age limit =)

Elight.com - Elight is a gay teen e-magazine. The primary purpose of the magazine isn't personals, but they have them - a good number of them. Look for the link on the left side of the page where all the links are. Also put your real age - this is specifially for gay teens, so they allow all ages to participate. It's definitely worth a look.

Altavista Clubs - Altavista Clubs are pretty new. This isn't the best place, but do a search under gay or teen. I'm not in any clubs there - but you can fill out a public profile - i did that.

Lycos Clubs - Lycos Clubs has a more extensive selection. I am on two gay teen clubs there: Gayteens and Queer Youth Club. They also have instant messaging software that you can use. It's much less popular than AOL Instant Messenger or Yahoo Messenger, yet someone may find it useful. This site is worth a shot.

Deja.com- Deja.com is a service with tons of communities in which you can post messages. It has various newsgroups, including ones concerning gay teens. Give it a look.