Message Boards and Chat Rooms

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Message Boards and Chat Rooms

• Key Ideas and Etiquette

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Key Ideas

• Internet chat rooms are ways to stimulate ongoing
  conversations with a group of friends or
  like-minded people.
• Message boards do not depend on people being
  online at the time a message is posted and are
  available 24 hours a day.

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Message Board and Chat Room Etiquette

• Share only what you want to. Because its easier
  to share things when not face-to-face, e-boarders
  sometimes share more than they should!
• Remember where you are sometimes people develop
  real relationships and forget they are in
  cyberspace and not in a real room! Be careful.

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Etiquette, continued

• Count to ten there will be negative, pessimistic
  people in chat rooms just as there are in real
  life. Try not to jump to conclusions. Maybe the
  person is just having a bad day.
• Get the most out of it. If you need help, ask.
  Everyone was new to chat rooms and e-boards at
  one time.
• Use emoticons those little pictures made with
  type characters ? to show how you feel.