Chat is an instant online messaging over the Internet between two or more people. Messages can be text, voice, or video that simulates face-to-face communication if people are at a distance from each other.
Instructions
Step 1
The word "chat" comes from the English chat - "to chat". That is, chat is just chatter on the Internet. The main difference between a chat and a forum is that communication takes place in real time, which means almost without delays. By the type of network communication, text (web chats), voice and video chats are distinguished.
Step 2
Web chats or text chats are text messaging that comes in two flavors: public and private. A general text chat is conducted in a window that is visible to all chat participants, and a private or private chat involves communication between two people. During a general chat, it is always possible to call a separate interlocutor for a private conversation.
Step 3
The telephone can be considered the predecessor of voice chat. To exchange voice messages, virtual interlocutors need a microphone or headphones with a microphone. Such chats are often used by computer players during group games, providing live communication between team members, allowing them not to be distracted from the main activity. Also, voice chats are used for webinars, i.e. voice training seminars.
Step 4
Video chats are voice chats with video broadcast of the interlocutors. For video chatting, you need to install a webcam. The disadvantage of video chat is the poor quality of video transmission, but usually it is enough for users. Video chat technologies are often used in business conferences when one or more people are unable to attend a general meeting. Sometimes such conferences are of a purely network nature, which significantly saves working time.
Step 5
Voice and video chats are usually combined with text chats, while correspondence is conducted in parallel and can be either general or private.
Step 6
Chat is also called the software itself, the use of which allows you to conduct network communication.
Step 7
There are also TV chats that are conducted not on a computer, but on a TV channel. For example, on music channels, text congratulations of people who ordered a musical gift are often transmitted in this way. In addition, private announcements are provided via tele-messages. The most common option for placing such a message on the screen is sending SMS, but this pleasure is not free, unlike most Internet chats.
