Chat rooms can be good and bad. They have several good reasons to have them and several bad reasons to have them. Lots of friends like to chat and some times when new chatters try to break into there lives this member is not liked by one and also can become like a chat room clique. Setting up a place for chatters to meet is easy. Keeping the room fair with no colusion in Private message and passing out passwords and what not are all things that can make it a bad thing.
On the other hand getting to know members makes for good friends so it is great to see when it is used properley