Chatrooms are an online area where kids can talk to each other via Internet. There are chatrooms for all ages on many different subjects. You can find many sites that do provide kid-safe chat.

Chatrooms are more sophisticated than in the past. Early chatrooms were just rooms with text that people responded to. Now you can chat in a 3D graphic room which allows the user to display a realistic representation of themselves (commonly called an avatar) or of a hobby, talent, or something that you like. Some examples of 3D chatrooms are There, Second Life, and Activeworlds.