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.