The Pros and Cons of Chat Rooms

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Chat rooms in today’s society can be a good and bad thing. First off what is a chat room? A chat room to me is a place where you can go and talk to people about different things. They have them from preteens up to adults. It is very easy to get into the rooms no matter what age you are. There is no real way for anyone to check if you are of age when using a computer. This makes it simple for me or anyone to get caught up in something that I shouldn’t be doing.

To get connected to a chat room all you have to do is going to yahoo and click on chat. That is how easy it is. Many parents these days didn’t grow up with computers so they don’t know what is going on with them. For this paper I did just that. I went to yahoo and got into a chat room just to see what kind of topics I found. I was shocked to see that there is adult chat and the different rooms they have in there are unreal. For me to get into something like that all I had to do was click my mouse a few times.

For parents that know nothing about computers they should be worried. Having kids playing on the computer I believe parents need to monitor what they do, how long they are on, and who they are talking with. Chat rooms can be dangerous. You don’t hear every day about people doing something crazy through a chat room, but these things do happen.

When searching for information about chat rooms and how they have effect society today, I found many different things. Parents to go online and find places that will record what is being done on the computer. These different things will do anything from seeing who and what is emailed to people to recording what websites people have visited on the computer.

In any normal chat room that kids or adults might obtain on the computer many different things could be said in there. As information on this topic I went into a chat room just to see what kind of things people put on the screen.

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