If you wanted to communicate with someone through our dial-up dinosaur modems, you could either waste an hour on instant messenger sending a handful of sentences back and forth or risk being targeted by some serial killer in a chat room.

For those of us not in the know, Turntable.fm, launched this past January and already weighs in at around 140000 users, allows members to join or create chat rooms, spin and rate tracks, and discuss the music playing in the room. Each room can have up

"Scammers search chat rooms, dating sites, and social networking sites looking for victims," warns the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center. "The principal group of victims is over 40 years old and divorced, widowed, elderly, or disabled,

But MySpace's parent company is likely to be motivated more by self interest than mercy, which has fueled speculation in hallways and in MySpace's virtual Campfire chat rooms that MySpace is being slimmed down to make it more attractive to a potential

Thierry criminalizes sex offenders from accessing or using social networking websites, like Facebook and MySpace, chat rooms and peer-to-peer networks. The offenders restricted by this law include those who were previously convicted of indecent