But in online chatrooms, many Escape fans have lamented the curvier look of the new Escape.

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Today's Internet is a powerful way to communicate, given e-mail, instant messaging and chatrooms.

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We learned that there would be some kind of moderation in the chatrooms in Nintendoland.

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Wink staffers send mass e-mails and make strategic postings in chatrooms operated by women-oriented sites like Ivillage and Oxygen.

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The NCH report found that 5% of young people had been bullied in internet chatrooms and 4% via e-mail.

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It may also be that Microsoft now sees chatrooms, with all their attendant negative publicity, as a legal liability.

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Microsoft will continue to offer chatrooms for those willing to pay in America, Canada, Japan, Brazil and New Zealand.

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Users want gravatars, chat history, domain-level chatrooms, and notifications, among other goodies.

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In other words, during their WOM brand conversations, survey participants mentioned social networking sites, chatrooms and blogs less frequently than they mentioned internet ads and company websites.

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