There are many many ways of chatting with Internet users all over the world, on all kinds of topics.

The easiest way is to use one of the Portal sites such as:

Excite Chat: http://www.excite.com/communities/ Yahoo Chat: http://chat.yahoo.com/ Talk City: http://www.talkcity.com/

You can also use an Instant Messenger (IM) program to connect directly with friends and relatives. Here are some of the most common and popular IM programs. All are free to download and use.

• Yahoo Messenger
• MSN/Windows Messenger
• AOL Instant Messenger
• Trillian - works with all of above