It's been going on for a while now, but especially so since the new chat format came into being, but actually having conversations in the chat rooms seems to be a thing of the past. The new(ish) format allows pics to be posted and in one respect that's a good thing, but in a lot of rooms, there's very little actual chat going on and they're full of pics of bloke's dicks. People complain that nobody seems to meet anymore - it's tough to have a conversation if photo's of cocks are breaking the flow of the chat. You can PM, I suppose, but not everybody has that ability or is willing to accept PM's from people they haven't spoken to in open chat.
I may be alone in thinking this, but I thought I'd put it out there.