Welcome to a chat experience different from any other on the net. Unlike other chat rooms, which attempt to bring together people of similar interests and backgrounds, Y? Chat! is designed to do just the opposite: Bring people from different backgrounds together and get them talking.

INSTRUCTIONS: Chatting is simple. Just click this button:

Then join the conversation!

NOTE: While the chat room is in its initial, traffic-building stage, you may want to leave a message in the room giving your handle, a specific time you'll be back, and what you'd like to talk about. You will have a better chance hooking up with someone that way.

For Y?'s chat room guidelines, click here. In general, you're encouraged to ask and answer questions about differences related to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, etc. Be provocative but constructive in your dialogues. If you get nasty, you'll get bumped out. To give Y? feedback, click here.

Host a Y? Chat! session:

  • Let Y? know if you'd like to facilitate a dialogue session. E-mail Y? with details about your cultural background and what your topic will be, and the forum will contact you and arrange a session that you can moderate right from your own computer. It's a snap; no advanced web knowledge needed. Now you can get to the bottom of all that's different - and not so different - between you and others!

Click below to start chatting!