Chat rooms are a great place to observe communication in action. All across the globe people of all ages are trading information back and forth. Some people go to chat rooms to talk to their friends; some go to do communication homework; some go to meet new friends, and some people even go to make fun of people. There are all kinds of reasons to go to a chat room, but very few are aware of all the invisible and visible aspects that are occurring in a normal chat room.There are so many chat rooms on the World Wide Web that it was difficult to find one that is suitable for you. I decided to check out the teen chat room at Yahoo.com. I just observed at first and noted some interesting things I saw. For example, someone typed in “what’s ^ today.” Which in normal talk means “What is up today.” In one instance this is interpreted as a visible aspect, because the person who sent the message used letters and symbols for our eyes to see. At the same time though, it is an invisible aspect because not everyone would know what that meant. It has no real meaning except for the meaning that was invented for it on chat room lingo. There are many examples of this chat room lingo. The most popular one is probably lol, which means laughing out loud. The visible aspect is the actual letters lol, but that doesn’t have any meaning to someone without a computer. If you do have a computer though it has meaning and you know the meaning from constant viewing of the phrase and that is an invisible aspect of communicating over the Internet.I attempted to spark some conversation in this chat room. First I wrote “Hello everybody.” No one responded to me though. My visible aspect seemed good enough to trigger conversation with at least one of the fifty-four teens logged into this particular chat room. But, what I didn’t take into consideration was the invisible aspect that my statement carried...