MSN vs Habbo Hotel

When comparing the two chat services you can tell there is some noticable differences.

Habbo Hotel is a 3D chat where you pick a character to represent you in a 3D world, quite similar to a video game. There are different rooms but are decked out accordingly, for example there is a room that is like a night club, there is a pool area which have change rooms and canteens, etc. You click on the places that you want your character to go and who you wish them to talk to..or alternatively you can just stand in one place and talk and hope that someone speaks back.

Msn messenger however is different. First of all it is a private chat, where you only talk to the people on your list, you choose whether or not you wish to accept or decline a person to your list. Usually it is a majority of friends and family, people you know in the real world rather than the land of the internet, where as Habbo hosts a place for people from all walks of life.
It does not have different rooms in which you wish to chat in, it has an individual window for you to converse in and are free to add other people from your list, share files and play games against eachother. Which is something that Habbo has not.

I dont think the 3D aspect really has much to do with the socialising aspect of the chat room, because technically you are still in a chat and still talk to people .. there are just other places to go and seek out when things are getting boring. The differences between the social aspect of Habbo Hotel and MSN Messenger is that in Habbo you are talking to people that are strangers or 'net aquaintances' where as on msn it is on a more personal level.