Avatar chat sites and Frenzoo

Chat hangouts for avatars around the net

Screenshot from a chat area in Gaia Online, a popular 2d avatar community

Want to meet people? There are a plenty of avatar worlds on the web where you can chat, socialize and just kick back and hangout. Frenzoo is an example of an avatar chat community that is online but also is in 3d.

These are different from traditional chat rooms, such as Yahoo, which don't have virtual characters and interactions as part of the experience. In an avatar chat world, by choosing or creating a virtual persona, you can jump in and lose yourself in a fantasy place with people from around the globe. Apart from just chatting you can also explore, and also create rooms and scenes to host parties and gatherings.

There are chat worlds that are purely social environments, and there is also chat built into many popular MMO games such as World of Warcraft - indeed many players of these games come back for the social aspects as well as the gaming and questing.

What are the different types of chat worlds ?

There are plenty of different types on the net, one way to look at them is whether they have 3 dimensional or 2 dimensional characters, and allow user generated content (creation of items) or not, for example:

Some examples of active chat worlds on the web

There are many successful communities on the web that are 2d, and many that are 3d. Similarly, Habbo is a thriving avatar community that has no user generated openness, There.com is an example of a platform also doing well, with user generated content. Whether or not you prefer more realistic or simple avatars, whether you care or not about creating your own items, there are places where you can have fun.

Frenzoo

Frenzoo is a fun and free avatar chat site, where you can meet people from around the world.

It's all online (runs in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google, Chrome) and there is no big client program to download. It is a 3D environment, but it will work on older machines and netbooks as well.

Apart from hanging out and partying, if you are interested you can also go crazy and create whatever your want - there is a friendly & interesting vibe in the community!