"What else can I do once I'm connected to an online service?"

"chat."

here's a recreation of a typical chat-area dialogue:

LILBRISKET: Hi everybody
WAZOOTYMAN: Hi Lilbrisket
TOADSTER: Hi Bris
LUNGFLOOK: Hi B
LILBRISKET: What's going on?
TOADSTER: Not much
LUNGFLOOK: Pretty quiet
(longish pause)
WAZOOTYMAN: Anybody here from Texas?
LILBRISKET: No
TOADSTER: Nope
LUNGFLOOK: Sorry
(longish pause)
UVULABOB: Hi everybody
TOADSTER: Hi Uvulabob
LUNGFLOOK: Hi Uvula
LILBRISKET: Hi UB
WAZOOTYMAN: Hi U
UVULABOB: What's happening?
LILBRISKET: Kinda slow
TOADSTER: Same old same old
LUNGFLOOK: Pretty quiet
JASON56243837: Lilbrisket, take off your panties
LILBRISKET: OK, but I'm a man
(longish pause)
WAZOOTYMAN: Uvulabop, are you from Texas?
UVULABOB: No
(longish pause)
LUNGFLOOK: Well, gotta run
reprinted without permission.