Chatroom

A chatroom is a website, part of a website or an online service primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing (sometimes even asynchronous conferencing). A chatroom provides communities of Internet users the ability to communicate online in real-time by using diverse online communication technologies such as, real-time online chat, instant messaging, online forums, virtual worlds etc. The most common is online chat, which is a way of communicating by sending text messages to people in the same chatroom in real-time. Some chatrooms such as Yahoo! use both text and voice simultaneously.