The Chatty Project

When you're in the mood to chat with friendly people...
Chatty Bob's Place

Welcome To Chatty BoB's Place

Now that the CB and Amateur Radio is kaput because of the Internet. Today, we can form real relationships across the virtual world thanks to online forums, email, Zello or the Jitsi Meet App. The benefits of virtual relationships on the internet are that they can provide opportunities for people to connect with others who share similar interests, hobbies, and values, regardless of their geographical location. Virtual relationships can be a valuable way to connect with others and form meaningful connections in the digital age.
Login to join the fun with Chatty Guys and Gals on Zello. Yeah, login to the Bookworm Cowboy Chat Shack or Tutti Cowgirl Country Playground today. Our nicknames on Zello are BookwormCowboy or Tutti Cowgirl. We also use the Jitsi Meet App. The Jitsi Meet App has HD audio and video. It lets you hold unlimited FREE meetings with up to 100 participants at a time. End-to-End encryption and its open source. You can get the Jitsi Meet on mobile - Download the app and start a meeting on your smartphone Today. Apple or Android.
Chatty BoB

Bookworm Cowboy Chat Shack

Bookworm Cowboy Chat Shack on Zello, all are welcomed. It's a place to chat with our friends or newly discovered friends. Please be respectful to the others and try not to go over 2 minutes to give others a chance to talk.
Tutti Cowgirl

Tutti Cowgirl Country Playground

Tutti Cowgirl Country Playground on Zello, all are welcomed. It's a place to chat with our friends or newly discovered friends. Please be respectful to the others and try not to go over 2 minutes to give others a chance to talk.
Join us on Zello
CB Radio Was The Original Social Media Network
We were both hard-core CB Radio enthusiasts for years, but the Internet came along, and we sold out. Today you'll find us using one or more of these services listed below to speak with friends and family. CB Radio 2.0
  • Zello is the #1 push-to-talk and walkie talkie app, used by millions people around the world. It turns any smartphone or connected device into a walkie-talkie — anywhere with Wi-Fi or cellular data service. We connect friends, family, and communities — to socialize as well as to organize in times of urgency.
  • Voxer Walkie Talkie is both a live "push-to-talk" system and a voice messaging system for smartphones.
  • Jitsi Meet let's you hold unlimited free meetings with up to 100 participants at a time. End-to-End encryption. Multiple participants can share their screen simultaneously. Remotely control other participants desktop. Integrations (Google, Microsoft, Slack) by 8x8 Meet.
  • Element.io - Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and secure collaboration app. It's decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services. Element operates on the open Matrix network to provide interoperability and easy connections.
Gaming Chat Software
Serious gamer's use voice chat to talk with fellow teammates. We have compiled a list of the top voice chat clients for video gamer's.
  • Discord is the number-one proprietary freeware VoIP platform designed for video gaming communities, that specializes in text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel. Discord works on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and in web browsers.
  • TeamSpeak provides superior voice quality for its target audience, gamers, who can use the software to communicate with other players on the same team of a multiplayer game. Communicating by voice gives a competitive advantage by allowing players to keep their hands on the controls.
  • Mumble is an open source voice communication application that features customization in game overlay, application skins, conversation recording, and advanced voice activity detection.

You can join other Internet chat communities:

Paltalk
Paltalk lets you video, voice, or text chat with anyone on any device. It offers users the ability to create their own public virtual chat room. An infographic created by the company in 2015 revealed that they had surpassed 100 million users.
Camfrog offers free video chat rooms, online group chat, video conference, and live webcams for all. Camfrog client was created by Camshare in October 2003 and later acquired by Paltalk in 2010. 
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Join The Fediverse

An alternative to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others...
Join Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/serversJoin Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform.Join Peertube: https://joinpeertube.org/Join PixelFed: https://pixelfed.org/servers
  • Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse.
  • https://fedi.directory is a list of interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

Follow us: mastodon.online/web/@BookwormCowboy
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