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TopTenREVIEWS - Bronze Award - Awarded for excellence in design, useability and feature set

Mix, mingle or make new friends with real people on Paltalk Messenger. This easy to use chat service hosts over 4,000 chat rooms and wins our “TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award.”

Chat rooms are organized by topic, ranging from romance to chess to foreign countries. Paltalk also offers instant messaging, file sharing, multi-party chat and more. Paltalk Messenger is compatible with Yahoo!, ICQ and AOL contacts so you can manage all of your buddies through one service. Speak to them using live video or voice chat.

Paltalk Messenger is the place for endless video and voice chatting, but does not support video conferencing or pc-to-phone calling.

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Ease of Use:

Paltalk Messenger has an easy to use interface enabling you to navigate quickly. Paltalk Messenger has three main tabs to navigate the chat rooms and your buddy contacts. Clicking these tabs will display lists of people and chat rooms so you can see what's out there.

Features:

By allowing you to go into chat rooms and talk with others online, Paltalk Messenger is a way to get out without actually getting out. You can keep a contact list of all your Paltalk Messenger buddies as well as your Yahoo!, ICQ and AOL friends. You can enjoy full self expression with an assortment of text effects and emoticons. You can also file share or create a custom chat room of your own.

To find the chat room of your choice, you can search by topic, language or by keyword. You can also choose to turn adult content on or off.

People from around the world join in Paltalk's chat rooms. Meeting someone new is as easy as clicking a button.

Video Features:

Paltalk Messenger has TV quality video chat with a resizable live video screen or voice chat. It also has fun animations that work with a webcam called video overlays. In addition to this, you can pause your video so people on the other end won't see what you don't want them to see.

Help/Support:

Paltalk has only an adequate help section with a FAQ and user forum. They also offer email support.

Summary:

Paltalk lets you explore worlds of subjects and throngs of people within thousands of chat rooms. Serious chatters will enjoy the diversity and endless possibilities. However, for video conferencing and pc-to-phone calling capabilities see Windows Live Messenger.