168 Md. App. 1 - Maxwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “One cannot get a clear picture ... without an understanding of internet chat rooms and instant messaging, two relatively recent forms of electronic communication____[A]n internet chat room... is not a place, per se, but, [is] instead a method for anyone with a computer and a connection to the internet to converse — instantly — with others similarly equipped about a common interest. Chat room conversations appear as text on a computer screen, with the participants’ screen names followed by the text of their conversations. . . . Chat rooms often have moderators and can thus be monitored; in addition, chat rooms are designed to facilitate conversations among large groups of people .... For these reasons, once the electronic chats between two “chatters” turn to specific content where privacy . . . becomes a concern, they then turn to an instant messaging service — a two-way instantaneous text communication similar to a chat room — but with no one to monitor.”

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