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5. Contacts – Helps the user to add user names and their email address,

postal address, phone numbers, of their friends, family members, etc.

6. Spam mail – Spam mails are unsolicited junk emails sent by commercial

companies for advertising or by any unknown person sending emails

through known email address. Spam decreases email traffic due to the

capacity of unnecessary email flooding. Few spam mails, can be

detected and for bulky of spam mails, it is more difficult to detect who

actually is sending the spam. Websites provide spam filters to restrict

unnecessary emails to your system.

Internet Chat Session

Chat is meant for live discussion using text and multimedia features. On the

left bottom of the window, click on chat option; add user email identity with

whom you want to chat.

Confirmation comes from the recipient and the chat becomes a two-way

process. Internet chat provides a facility to have live chat between many

persons or group of persons. It is a multi-way chat technique. Internet Relay

Chat (IRC) provides the facility of internet chat. Each chat group has a
separate channel maintained by IRC architecture. It is normally not meant for

one-to-one chat.

Voice Chat

In an instant message, we can send message, but in voice chat, we can have

live audio communication between two persons or group of persons using

the features of IP telephone and VoIP (Voice over IP). Many messenger tools

support the feature of voice chat also.

Blog

A blog is a type of internet website, usually maintained by an individual or a
small company with frequent entries to descriptions of their interest, events,

news, games, movies or to any person sharing his/her views. Material such as

text, graphics, audio and video can also be shared using blog. Blog is normally

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