For example, will people only speak with those people who understand what they are saying. In the rapid pace of chatroom talk this seems to be the case. There is also the danger that people can become poor communicators. Chatrooms do not demand proper grammar as a conversation in person would. Spelling, because of the rapid rate of scrolling text is an unimportant aspect.
Abbreviations become important.
It is much quicker to write BTW than to write by the way. All chatroom talk could be considered informal speech. Without knowing the context there is no meaning. As I will explore later in this thesis, words do produce meaning, however the difficulty in Chatrooms is not only finding meaning within any 'talk' but to have others understand or follow what we mean. People are fully able to communicate as long as there are structures to communicate within.