I will be disappointed if MSN shuts down its chat rooms.Reshma Burse, chat room addict: MSN shutting down their chat room services will not affect me so badly, as there are many other alternate chat rooms which are definitely faster.Vicky Bhutada, student: I donâ€™t use MSN as it is very slow and users in those rooms are not exactly polite. I will miss friends I have made on MSN.Puja N, cyber cafe regular: I chat almost every day in a specific MSN chat room, as I have friends and relatives who are available at that particular time. Hence, itâ€™s not a hot favourite with users.Subhrojit Bhanga, net addict: I love to chat and make new friends and would feel bad if MSN were to shut down their chat services.

The connectivity to MSN chat rooms is very slow and signing in is a very tedious task. It will only affect those who are hooked on to chatting with their friends and relatives.Nilesh Sancheti, Cyber King: Only about 30 per cent of my customers use MSN chat rooms. PT spoke to a few chat addicts and cyber cafe owners to find out their reactionMehul Thakkar, Net World: MSN has a lot of people hooked on to their messenger, but the traffic to their chat rooms is not that much as users prefer Yahoo or Indiatimes. Pune, a city of cyber cafes, is undoubtedly affected the most. Microsoft Corpâ€™s (MSN) recent announcement on their pulling the plug on free, unsupervised internet chat rooms in 28 countries, including India, has left many netizens worried as to the fate of chatting on the net.MSNâ€™s says its decision is based on their concerns that chat rooms have become a haven for e-miscreants indulging in virtual crime ranging from paedophilia to cyber-stalking.MSN chat rooms will go off-line from October 14 in India, but will be available on a subscription service basis in Canada, the United States and Japan. Chatting, one of the defining elements of the virtual lifestyle is undergoing a sea change.

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