There was case here in Louisville that received national attention. That student went to a Catholic school, and the parent had very little knowledge of what her child had been doing on the Internet. This and other things lead me to believe that chat rooms are the most dangerous part of the web. Chat rooms are computers that allow people to post messages that can be read immediately by anyone else who is looking at the message board at the time. Two people must be on-line at the same time and in the same chat room to talk to each other.
Many people can be on-line at the same time and all be talking at once.
It can be confusing the first time you go into one. These rooms can be oriented to different interests, games or ages. I went into a teen chat room just to see what they were talking about. I listened for awhile and finally told them I was a teacher. I asked if they would help me understand how chat rooms worked.