Chatting Rooms, more commonly known as chatroom for website, are virtual places
where people meet online to talk to each other with text, audio
and video. Chat rooms have been very popular since the early days
of the internet and their popularity has not faded over time.
People of all walks of life enjoy using chatting rooms to
talk, joke, share their experiences, exchange ideas, thoughts or simply
get to know each other. Chat rooms are like interactive message
boards where you post a message and get responses right away.
Additionally, chatting rooms typically come with private messaging features
which allow chatters to take a public conversation with one
individual into a private area.
The invention of webcams
certainly had a great impact on chatting habits. While in the
early days chat meant exchanging text messages, now chatting is a
multimedia experience where chatters exchange not only text but also
audio and video. You can use a microphone to have a voice
conversation with other chatters and you can use a webcam to
have a video chat as well. In fact some people don't even bother
typing they simply talk and broadcast themselves with their webcams;
they have video conferences instead of simple text-chatting sessions.
Some of the most popular chatting rooms are offered by major
Internet companies such as America Online. Chat rooms are also
available and are still quite a bit popular especially among
people living in America. chat also offers chat rooms, in a 3D
environment, with Lively. The chat rooms can be added to other sites
and people visiting those sites can enter the rooms and chat. Social
networking sites also allow their users to join chat rooms. Chat rooms
available to users who are logged in where they can chat with
other Chat room users online and present in the rooms. Some 'older'
sites such as ICQ also have chat rooms though they are not as
popular as they used to be when there were fewer other
chatting rooms to compete with.
Of course major internet companies
are not the only ones to offer free chat rooms, in fact you'll
find chatting rooms available on many less known sites. The
difference with major chat rooms and non-major chat rooms is of course
the number of users you'll find. Typically chat rooms will always
have many users present and chatting. Google Lively is a more recent
site therefore it has yet to gain.
Some chat rooms like
the chat rooms require that the user not only join Yahoo but also
install a piece of software on his/her computer. Other chat rooms such
as chat rooms do require user registration but are completely web-based
and don't require any software download. There are also chat rooms
that don't require any form of registration at all, the user
simply chooses a nickname and enters the chat room.
While many
chat rooms are available for free and accessible to anybody who
meet the required criteria to enter the rooms- like age restriction or
site membership - others are only accessible when the user pays a fee.
Indeed there are paid chat rooms as well. Usually paid chat rooms
are moderated chat rooms which are dedicated to a restricted group of
individuals. Very often you will find paid chat rooms on dating sites.
Some paid chat rooms are offered as part of a membership package for
a paid site. Sometimes those paid chat rooms will also allow limited
access to non-paying members.
Nowadays anybody can create his/her
own free chat rooms simply by adding a few lines of codes on his
webpage. Many people add chat rooms on their profiles on social
networking sites or on their blogs. Those chat rooms allow anybody
who visits a web page to chat with the owner of the page if
he/she's online or with anybody else visiting the page at that
time.
Chat rooms still have many glorious years ahead of them
while they will certainly evolve with technology and web surfing
habits they will still remain popular as internet users are
continuously looking for quality chat rooms to join.
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