The audience for each Fireside Chat is invited to submit questions for the program prior to broadcast.
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One of the most popular uses of YY is for karaoke, where one person will sing while others follows along and chat with each other on text chat.
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"We have to answer thousands of questions each month through chat, through telephone, through email and we have to do that as quickly as humanly possible, " Richard Reyes-Gavilan of Brooklyn Public Library told the BBC.
The two remaining (the other is also 86) sometimes chat to each other in Manchu.
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For now, up to nine users can chat with each other like Skype or iChat.
Korean marriages are fraying as spouses cheat on each other through video chat.
EA's Sims Online encouraged people posing as avatars to meet, chat and entertain each other within worlds the creators design.
Husky Chat, a new Chrome extension, turns any website into a chatroom by overlaying a simple, drop-down chat window over each page on the web.
One relative spent a month of 13-hour days lobbying chat rooms, but each time one site took down a photo it emerged elsewhere.
The company sees nearly a billion people browse photos, chat and comment on walls each month while half those users visit almost every day.
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Even when partisan rancor in the Senate was at its highest this past year, they would drop by each other's Capitol offices regularly to chat.
"If you look at the 500 million people who are on Facebook and the way that people text each other and instant message and use video chat, there is now an evolution of media, " Kotick said.
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He said reporters could also see if subscribers were using "message" or "chat" functions to send messages to each other over the terminals, but not the recipient of the messages or their content.
Incoming messages pop up on the top right in the form of what Facebook calls chat heads, which are bubbles that each represent a particular conversation thread and is displayed via a pop-over dialog box.
Each day fans share what they are watching with friends and chat about their favorite shows.
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Facebook eventually compromised: The upper portion of the chat window featured recommendations of "friends" for each user, while the lower portion displayed a user's friends online at that moment.
They would often talk about each other's families, about their own activities and other chit-chat.
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Most of these sites charge a membership fee, allowing subscribers to play a variety of games against each other, offer reviews of new games and provide opportunities for game-chat.
Johnny Vaughan's new chat show on BBC One - it debuts on BBC Choice earlier each evening - had a solid opening of more than two million, but that dropped by 500, 000 by the third show.
On the social side, players will also be able to chat within the same multiplayer game or across different games on UniteSDK and view leaderboards for each title.
Windows Phone users will be able to view photos and social networking updates for just that group, if they want, and talk to each other as a group through email and instant message services such as Windows Live Messenger and Facebook Chat.
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