I am new and a complete novice...

HI welcome, I do go on and of line and chat if somebody wants to chat to me about 9pm bst English time . Instant chat is so easy when u know how. I will keep eye out for u if u want to chat. U can leave an ordinary message if I am off line and I will reply .

Mikey600GB

As was just mentioned you can communicate on here via instant Chat which you can see in the bottom right hand side. You can see how many people are available by the number.
Also there is private messaging which you can do by going to the persons profile page and going to 'Private Message' and pressing that which takes you to the message page.
And finally you can communicate on here 'The Forum'. So there are many ways to communicate, just choose which suits you or try all of them!