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Online Chat

Online chat is simultaneous text communication between two or more people via computer. Chat establish if one person types a message and the people with whom they are chatting see the message and can respond immediately. Chat requires each user to have a computer connected local network or internet. Users also need a chat system, software that controls the connection to the people who are chatting. Many chat systems are free.

Chat is recently used for social interaction. For example, chat is use to discuss topics of shared interest or share to whom with similar interests. Some companies use online chat meetings to tell employees about new business managements. Such meetings are useful for companies whose employees are spread out geographically. Small company may use chat to coordinate their work. In education, teachers use chat to help students practice and to provide mentoring to students.

Chat systems including Internet Relay Chat (IRC), America Online (AOL) Chat, and Microsoft Chat. The systems are very similar, but users can only chat with other people who are using the same system.

Each chat system may have lots of users spread throughout hundreds of chat rooms. Chat rooms are a feature of the system’s software that allows people to send messages to one another without annoying from other people from different room. Usually a chat room’s name expresses the topic of people inside chat room.