Yes me and you are having a conversation via posting in a "thread". A Thread is essentially a topic some one starts on the forums. For example if you had a question "What is the standard size for a business card?"
You would start a new thread under the appropriate "forum" which would be our forum called "printing and prepress" which is under general graphic design discussion. Then people can respond to your thread to answer your question by posting back to you.
Its simply text messaging back and forth in an organized environment.
The reason forums are all text based is because search engines respond well to text and it brings traffic to the forums. If we just had a live chat the search engines would not consider us as useful of a website.
Hope this helps!
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