Please never leave your children alone in chat rooms. There is no guarantee of someone's identity in a chat room, and in a global social area, children are vulnerable. Never allow your children to give out ANY personal information to anyone on the internet. If you are concerned about web site content that may not be suitable for children, you may purchase a variety of software to help filter this from your web browsers. These newsgroups can best be described as electronic, interactive, discussion groups.
Participants are from around the world, and discussions are in the context of previous postings.
This allows new participants to join the group and understand the previous discussions. Subscribing to newsgroups does not cost any money, it just means that you wish to have your newsreader software track the posting to those newsgroups you find interesting. There are thousands of newsgroups on every topic of discussion that is imaginable. Please note that most newsgroups are not moderated, and may contain offensive material, adult discussions, and advertisements. DEJA News is a web based archival service that tracks old news articles from the traditional groups like alt, comp, bit, rec, sci, k12, etc.