- Getting your answers
How do you know someone has answered you?
When you are logged into a Chat Room, you of course know this immediately, for as long as you remain logged in! (For, if you leave the Chat Room immediately after posting a comment/query, you run the risk that your answer be posted there after you have logged off! Please keep this in mind.)
For a message that you have posted onto a Bulletin Board, you need to come round, now and then, in order to check the answers/reactions that have possibly been posted, following your initial words.
How do you know a certain message is a response to yours? This is very easy: every answer to your words are always placed directly beneath your original message! So, you just have to look for your message, and voilá! You find all the responses to it immediately below your words!:)
- The identity factor
In Chat Rooms, it is very common that people choose a certain "nickname" as they log in. In addition, people tend to keep the same "nickname" as they log into that Chat at other times.
This way, people can identify each other, since one rarely writes his/her own name in a Chat log-on window. So, use your creativity, and think of a name (word) which you like, or which you feel you have something in common with, or which somehow identifies you, etc. This name can be any word or compound word--just give wings to your imagination!:)
On a Bulletin Board, you can of course also use a nickname, whichever you please. It is not uncommon at all, in this case, to find people signing under their own names, however.
- The privacy factor
Chat Rooms, just as Bulletin Boards, are public means of communication. That is, they are open to anyone who logs in.
Chat Rooms, however, often offer you also the possibility of having private communication with a certain Netter that is logged into the the same Chat Room as you are. So, whenever Chatting on the Net, should you feel you need to talk to anyone (who's also logged in) outside the reach of public eyes, just look for the way (usually a button to click) that particular Chat Room offers for private real time conversation.
Bulletin Boards, in turn, do not offer you the possibility of leaving a private message to anyone. Whatever you post there is publicly available.
On the other hand, you can e-mail anyone privately, for as long as that person has left an e-mail address, along with the message that (s)he has posted onto the Bulletin Board.
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