A place on the Internet where people with similar interests can meet and communicate together by typing messages on their computer.
Chat rooms are a preferred method of communication for young people. It is also an effective communication channels for the disabled and the confined.
Messages that are typed in by a user appear instantly to everybody who is in that chat room. Most people in chat rooms are there for genuine reasons and they are sharing information.
Some chat rooms are ‘moderated’ whereby certain messages are not broadcast because they do not conform to the standards set up by the operator of the service. Reasons for a message being blocked could include: discussion off the topic, bad language or repeat messaging especially of undesirable or obscene text, known as ‘flaming’.remain 'open' where messages are posted automatically with no human intervention.
