Monday, July 16, 2001		The world of  dot.com

Chat is to converse in an easy, familiar manner, lightly and casually. On the Internet, chat means to participate in a process of exchange of remarks with one or more persons over a computer network. The following sites provide this service

We can do more than just sending messages with ICQ. Chat can be comfortably done with many persons at same time. We can also set up a permanent chat room; meet new persons and can invite many contacts in a separate room. We can change the layout of the chat application by using the layout menu. The options are horizontal, vertical, or split-screen style. We can also change font, as well as the colour of the text and background, in the display menu or by using the style buttons at the top of the window. One can use gestures (called Emotes) and actions to add character to the messages. Many interesting features of application make it a comprehensive chat application. General chat rooms are categorised by age group, art, audio and sound, cars and vehicles, computing, shopping, culture, games, family, health etc.

The site offers various online products; like chats, discussion boards, online clubs and communities arranged by topics. Chat rooms are divided into romance, health, business, travel, sports, music, games, movies, lifestyle, teens and college etc. The site provides us a facility in which we can talk to others without disclosing our phone number. It also provides the facility to create a private or group conference call using a regular phone. We can choose the font style and colour. "Report abuse" is a link in case we want to lodge a complaint to the administrator.

Chat rooms of this famous site are divided into three major categories; topic which is further divided into cinema, friends, music, news etc, category city has many cities in the list. Chandigarh is one of them and special rooms. We can find a lot of local stuff doing chat in separate rooms of there interest. Change Avatar is a link where we can select a pictorial representation. A little image created with imagination that let’s others in the chat room know what we are like.

A Chandigarh-specific chat site that’s sure to strike the right chord with Chandigarh youth. This site has some links, for example geri, that may sound okay to the city youth but could be a total jargon for someone out of the city. The site also has love meters and love calculators under the Love scale links. This city-centric site has other links like Campus, Date, Hate etc.

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