Even if you never want to chat yourself, you might like to know what you are missing and everyone else is talking about. So read on, and wise up.
1 Understand the basic concept. Chat is all about communicating by computer with other people. You exchange messages typed on your keyboard, along with smiley type emoticons and abbreviations. It happens live, in real time. That means the other person sees what you write almost the second you write it. You can have one-to-one or group chats. It is fun, fast, and very popular.
2 You can sign up for free at one of the thousands of chatrooms or channels.
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