Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140317195106/@comment-24480175-20140317204254

Irishninja0 wrote: AlcohollicA wrote: IRC Channels and Talk pages have been suggested to be used for chatting with friends. This is better, anyway. IRC is away from the site so when users come here they can help. Talk pages let you talk to only people you want to talk to, so drama can be prob. be avoided more. Yeah but unlike chat its not very private and pretty much everyone can see what you two are saying. It eliminates any privacy chat might give. Like what if one of the users wanted to come out but only to one person they are close with on chat? Talk page would pretty much shout it out to the world and what not. Plus you wouldn't be able to meet new users and wouldn't know if one of your friends switched accounts. You can meet new users in IRC Chat. I would also imagine that if a friend changed accounts or was going to, he/she would tell you so you two could stay in touch.

As for privacy, you can use Skype, Omegle, etc.