This may make the relationship feel somewhat ambiguous and anonymous. These also are a favorite for many teens. In other words, everyone in the group is sitting at their computer at the same time, typing messages to each other that scroll down the screen. Some adolescents like to present themselves in an imaginative way, by changing their name, age, identity, or even their gender. It's like a living novel complete with characters and plots, or a very elaborate Halloween party with its own idiosyncratic rules and culture.
People connect to a specific site on the internet and post messages to each other.
Unlike chat, this is not a real-time conversation. Whenever you want, you can go to the site and read the messages that others have written. Each newsgroup usually is devoted to a specific topic of discussion. Usenet, the original home of the newsgroup, contains tens of thousands of groups devoted to almost any topic you can imagine. Once again, as with email and chat, newsgroup posts can be a very anonymous style of communicating.