Computer science: what are chat services, for example?

Hello, do chat services such as WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook or any dating apps also count as chat services?

Or does this term only refer to internet websites such as Amazon where customers can communicate with customer service representatives?

What are the requirements for using hardware and software?

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ultrarunner
1 year ago

With internet chat or online chat you usually mean any text-based real-time “playing”. There are no specific hardware or software provisions for this term.

If sound or image is added, this means audio chat or video chat.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat

NAFOfella
1 year ago

The term “chat services” is not common. There is no such thing.

WhatsApp is for example a messenger – just like Skype, Telegram or ICQ.

Facebook is a social network, just like Instagram. Snapchat somehow both, but rather a messenger.

julihan41
1 year ago

Most often, this means messenger services as

  • Matrix
  • Rocket.Chat
  • Signal
  • Threema

The respective clients come to this. At least at Matrix you can find a search.

These services are hosted by a company or anyone can do this for themselves – depending on the offer. Matrix, for example, can be run on own hardware.

Other chat services within the meaning of a service are available for voice assistants or for message services via messenger.

With WhatsApp I have read, you can “contain” with various services and so for example Information about departure times etc. At WhatsApp, Facebook reads everything. But whoever uses WhatsApp, his privacy is worth nothing. That doesn’t matter.