To participate in a private chat or to activate immediate notifications you are required to install Adobe Flash Player.

Should you wish to use private chat or the advantages of immediate notifications (new mail, friends of favourites coming online etc.), you will need the Flash Player.

An easy way of locating a download site for Flash Player is to search via Google (www.google.com) using the keywords "flash player". The picture shows the corresponding search result that appears on first position in most of the cases, here encircled in bright red

This will take you to the following page with further instructions to guide you.

You can find the installation instructions further down on this page

After installing Adobe Flash Player private chat and immediate notifications for new mail and online status of friends/favourites and profile visitors should be available.