Different groups of people are successfully engaging in online communication and have been noted to have independently reached communicative competence within this communication mode. Previous research on online communication has looked into the areas of language form and language content, but not within the area of language use. Online communication has also been observed to be its own unique communication mode with specific factors governing its use. Prior studies also yielded that males and females act in accordance to their gender roles within online communication. Thus, the current study investigated the differences between genders in regards to the repair in communication breakdown within online communication.