March 2015
Beginner
384 pages
9h 14m
English
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Chapter 12
Typing and Talking Online
In This Chapter
Typing to one friend at a time
Talking to friends old and new, with a webcam
Talking by telephone over the Internet
Typing to a lot of friends at a time with chat rooms and mailing lists
Email is pretty fast, usually arriving in less than a minute. But sometimes that just isn’t fast enough. Text chat or instant-message (IM) systems let you pop up a message on a friend’s screen in a matter of seconds. You can also tell your messaging program the usernames of your friends and colleagues so that the program can alert you the instant that one of your buddies comes online and you can instantiate an instant message to them. (Excuse us — this topic gives us a headache. Wait just a moment while we get some instant coffee. Ahh, that’s better.)
The good thing about instant messages is that you can stay in touch with people as fast as by talking to them on the phone. The bad thing about instant messages is that they also offer an unparalleled range of ways to annoy people. Use with discretion! Gregarious people can chat with a whole bunch ...
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