Online, you could hang out in a virtual lounge, or read breathless blog posts and celebrity text messages.
Today, Doximity serves doctors as not only a professional network and profile page, but a way to find relevant specialists for patients, a rolodex, a CME tool, a news portal, an email and text service, and a virtual lounge.
I clearly didn't".Then Mr Strauss discovered the online world of Pickup Artists (PUAs), a vast internet community where self-styled seduction gurus with names like Mystery and Juggler dispense their techniques to grateful acolytes in virtual lounges and locker-rooms.
Scholastic is also taking its teachers from the classroom to the Web by using its Facebook page as a "virtual teachers' lounge," said Jennifer Abelson, marketing manager for Scholastic.
01 Workshop, an education lab that provides programming for students in fields like genetic hacking and robotics, hosted a virtual reality lounge, with a dreamy performance by artist Nicole Salcedo.
To address the sense of isolation, these courses now provide discussion boards, virtual student lounges, assignments to be completed by teams and teachers' e-mail addresses.
Today, though, an eminent occupant of its artist's lounge is discussing the virtual axe.
The quality of the speakers, along with the latest avatar graphics, webcasts, online chats, video streaming and networking lounges have made him a "virtual" convert.
A "virtual relaxation system," according to its manufacturer, the Z-Lounge is S-shaped, like a dentist's chair, and programmed by computer.
Listening to this compilation CD of Rocky Mountain bands is like taking a virtual bar crawl through Colorado's clubs, coffeehouses and ski-lodge lounges.
Last week during TechCrunch Disrupt SF social video service Chill set up a special Disrupt Chill lounge, which allowed people to watch and chat about TechCrunch Disrupt live in Chill's virtual home theatre environment.
