Cultural Impact
Despite being virtual, chat can spill into the outside world. There can also be a strong sense of online identity leading to impression of subculture. Compare Internet sociology.
Chats are valuable sources of various types of information, the automatic processing of which is the object of chat/text mining technologies.
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