There is disclosed a system and a method of initiating a one-click video chat session. The method includes accessing a database to determine whether the target chat participant has pre-authorized the source chat participant to initiate a chat without requiring acceptance of the chat request, a source chat participant sending a chat request requesting a chat session with a target chat participant while a computing device associated with the target chat participant is not generating any audio component nor any video component, and causing the computing device associated with the target chat participant to begin providing at least one of an audio component and a video component to the source chat participant without any action on the part of the target chat participant.