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This article provides a pioneer point of view on the research fro building visual representation of textual conversation in such a way to prevent the amassment of information. The idea is to use ChatCircles, a visual display that render the age of a message as a circle whose radios shrink with the passing time. The goal of this research is to provide to textual communication a background able to convey some social aspect of the communication like the turn taking ecc. In addition there is also the idea of archiving the conversations in such a way to convey some of those meanings.