I hate IM in some ways. It gives you more options to go talk to people, but you get to feel just as retarded for not being able to come up with a good way to start a conversation. On that note...
Personally and individually, though I should note that the closest I've been to a chatroom in the last N years is CS zephyr, which I rarely send to -- which just turns into more evidence, I'm afraid. To overelaborate, it depends on my mood. In particularly vivacious moods, I'm very forthright in barging about and interjecting my say into any conversation I can find or create, whether it be online or off -- though I tend to be in company in these moods. In less social times, I hold my peace until it's broken for me, or until I find the silence obvious and uncomfortable. To be honest, my online and offline characters have merged, or at least been incorporated as separate facets of my personality; I don't, in general, find my behaviour radically shifting over connection type, excepting perhaps that I can still type between breaths.
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