Chat Rooms Use at your own risk - remember: chat rooms can get raunchy at times. Never give out your real name, userid, phone number or address. Don't even tell folks you just met that you're at IU. Be safe. If you feel threatened - leave that chat room and find another - as a last result you can quit your browser. If you haven't chatted much before - check out these links first First Time Chatting Chatting for beginners Articles & General Info about Chat & Chatting MSU Interactive Lesson on Chats, MOOs, forums - has basic definitions, summary of software commands, screen shots - this is well written Finding One's Own in Cyberspace in pdf format, really good article by Amy Bruckman that talks about feeling comfortable online, folks without a lot of online experience should read this Amy Bruckman papers - she does a lot with Moos, forums, chatting Chatting Tools from about.com Apple's new iChat AV - sound and video in your chat Google Directory for Chatting Chat info from Best-of-the-Web Chat Rooms CollegeClub Chats - look for the chat link at the bottom of the page, they have a variety of chats iVillage - the Women's Network - everyone welcome to chat, has casual chats and scheduled events Yahoo! Chatrooms - has scheduled events and open chatrooms (which can get kind of raunchy - use at your own risk) TalkCity - chat rooms on every topic imaginable, also scheduled events - having problems 11/7/03 - professional wrestling chat Forums, Threaded Discussions Groups.google.com - Usenet threaded messages, current and archived, 10,000+ groups, database of messages goes back 10+ years Sports Boards - Major League Baseball EZBoard - you can add a discussion forum to your own website IRC NewIRCUsers - tips for getting started on IRC Intro to IRC from mIRC people IRC FAQ - from mIRC people IRCHelp - archives of help messages organized by subject UnderNet - homepage for one of the IRC server networks mIRC - IRC client for Windows machines IRCLe - IRC client for Mac OS machines