Welcome to our Mountain Chatroom, where mountain enthusiasts, visitors, residents, clubs, organizations, businesses, as well as churches and other worship communities can chat online. This is our main mountain chat room. We offer additional mountain chat rooms below, based on specific mountain communities. Please contact us if you’d like us to build an online chat room for your mountain community and post it here.

We will soon add the following mountain chat rooms here, based on the mountain communities of:

Big Bear, California and surrounding mountain communities
Lake Arrowhead, California and surrounding mountain communities
Wrightwood, California and surrounding mountain communities

Please let us know what you think of our new Mountain Chat service. We want our online mountain chat room to be a positive, constructive, and safe experience for all of our members and visitors. Please share your thoughts by visiting our “Contact Us” page.

If you’re new to the internet, or are generally a trusting person, online safety for you and your family should never be an afterthought.
Think of the internet as the opportunity of being able to access the world with a few mouse clicks and keys pushed, but also as an opportunity for anyone, whether friend or foe, to enter your house at any time, and maybe even access your social networking or banking accounts.
At a time when the economies of our world’s countries are struggling, there are numerous online evil-doers, who unscrupulously use the internet as a platform for stealing, or damaging in any way they can.
Here is a recent news video from Fox Television on the subject.

Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com

Here are some important terms to know for online protection. Simply click on the term and you’ll be taken to a related article on Wikipedia for more details and examples:
1. Computer crime aka cybercrime
2. Internet Fraud
3. E-mail fraud
4. Phishing
5. Cyberstalking

Please share the results of your research of internet safety with your family, your friends, and your colleagues to stay protected against ill-doers and add your comments below and share with us ways you protect yourself and your families from harm from the internet.