I was logged onto my Gmail the other day and one after the other, pop-ups of conversations kept appearing.  I’m not saying I’m the world’s most popular guy, it was mostly work related.  So on a Saturday morning my dreams of having a relaxing work free day was smited down like some classic Hollywood battle scene.

I madly scattered around my gmail page and I could not find anywhere in settings to turn off chat while in gmail.  After ironically googling for a way to turn this off and going through endless posts, I found that there is a link right at the bottom of Gmail, “turn off chat”.  I hope this can help someone else!

To turn off your G-talk chat in Gmail:
-  Log onto gmail
-  Scroll to bottom and click the link “turn off chat”