So What Can I Use the Internet for? Searching for content, otherwise known as browsing or surfing, is perhaps the most popular pastime of the Internet user. Here are some more things which are very easy to do online: Email Email is probably one of the most popular things to do online. You can either create an account using a free email service or get one from your ISP and set it up on Outlook Express. If you opt for a free account, do remember to choose one which offers lots of storage space so you don’t have to delete your emails very often. Some of the recommended free email service providers are: 
We highly recommend Gmail and have an introductory guide to the service here, plus an advanced guide here. 
Chat Be warned, chat is addictive and you might end up spending hours on end chatting online. However, chat can be a lot of fun since it lets you interact with people immediately and is like a written telephone call! You can even use it to interact with business contacts in far-away places. Some of the softwares which are useful are: - messenger.msn.com/download/getstarted.aspx
- www.skype.com for online voice chat
- messenger.yahoo.com
Internet chat has its own language and is quite simple to understand. Some of the easier chat lingo phrases or abbreviations are: - ASL?: age, sex, location
- BRB: be right back
- LOL: laughing out loud
- ROFL: rolling on floor laughing
- FYI: for your information
- TC: take care
- AFK: away from keyboard
- BTW: by the way
- CU: see you
- JK: just kidding
The list is quite endless and even we are discovering new acronyms. Many of these acronyms are now part of people's regular vocabulary. |