Paltalk Scene is the web site for almost endless video and voice chatting. This site lets you explore practically every subject and chat with people within thousands of chat rooms. If you take chatting seriously then you will be in hog heaven.

This is a free service that allows your family to video chat with all your friends on Yahoo, AOL and ICQ! Buddy lists from these accounts can be automatically imported.

To locate the chat room of your choice,search by topic, language or by keyword.

NOTE TO PARENTS: YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO TURN ANY ADULT CONTENT OFF!

Available parental controls utilize a password to change settings or block groups. You will be pleased to know that adult material is hidden by default and all rooms are moderated. You can include room ratings of G, R and A, and safe chatting for children is assured.

If you right-click a persons name you will see whatever amount of personal information the member desires to share. Updates include screening rooms to share online videos, music feeds from Rhapsody and multi-player games.

What makes this program really interesting is the way it combines text, audio, and video into a single integrated environment and here is a surprise, how much of this service PalTalk gives away for free.

If all you want to do is type, or use the audio features. PalTalk is free. Of course, there are some advertisements, but the only pop-ups we have experienced is at login and shutdown. All your friends can set up a 24-hour chat room, which you administrate yourselves. This is ultimate friends talking to friends, talking to friends etc.

Currently there are over 4,600 groups listed in the public directory. Many are created by members, who can give other members administrative privileges and remove people who get out of line. It's also possible to create invitation-only private rooms.

Either find an existing Chat Group or create your own!

Some of the chat groups today are:

Internationals Make New Friends
Voices of Nicotine Recovery
Our Oklahoma Friends
Adoption Truth Seekers
Genealogy Australia
University Of Black History
4X Traders

The purpose of this very brief list is to assure parents that Paltalk is a very safe and interesting web site that can help both parents and children to better understand our world. By opening up the lines of communication we can better understand worldly situations and how people cope with those same situations.

This is by no means only a childrens site. This is a family site where many adults of all ages find various groups interesting and stimulating.

Should you watch where your children go on the Internet, of course, it is no different than reviewing the local movies to determine which ones are age appropriate.

Paltalk Scene is one site where your children can learn and be entertained while you watch comfortably from the sidelines.