Now read what the discussion is about and try to blend in with the crowd. Pretty soon you will have your own group of Net-pals who meet you in the same room day after day. These are freely available software programs designed specifically for chatting over the Internet. They connect to a special chat server and offer a load of advanced features like the ability to be in multiple rooms at the same time and icons and sound effects that you can use to add some emotion to your typed word. One of the best things about chatting on-line is that you are not sitting face to face and usually do not know about the real identity of others.
Most people turn out to be more expressive on-line than they are in real life.
Steer clear of such people and just ignore them. Some chatting sites even allow you to hide messages from a particular person. If someone gets really annoying, which they sometimes will, most chat rooms have a coordinator who will ban that person from the room. In a classic incident of chat mania, two people calling themselves Joe and Sally supposedly met once in a local US chat room. They got friendly and finally decided to get married.