Sunday, October 10, 2010
Chat Rooms
The well was a pioneer in the development in the modern chat room. Today the chat room has developed into ways for gamers to connect with one another, support groups to connect and a lot of good to be done on the web. However, the chat room is also a way to connect criminals in a cyber-world with no identities. A place for criminals to steal credit card, social security, and other important information and sell it and share it in chat rooms. While people only usually look at the good that a chat room does, like a way for mom's to share recipes, there is a whole other world out there that people just seem to forget about. This criminal world is a dangerous one and really needs to be remembered by everyone when they do things online. People are not as safe as they think, I have seen many people enter email and other information into pop ups and what ever they think is cool or can get them free stuff, even songs. This stuff can be harmful, and be aware of where you are giving and to whom your giving information to online. The chat room is certainly a great achievement in online development, unfortunately it also makes it easier for criminals to work.
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Dude when we were watching that well party in class I was thinking about the first episode of Degrassi. The main girl Emma goes in a chat room and starts talking to this boy and really likes him. They decide to meet and you can all guess what happened, it was a cyber creeper. It seemed to me that the only truely safe way to participate in chat rooms is to already know the people you talk with or only share the essential information like the content that is being disscussed, not personal information. yo ben whats up
ReplyDeleteI agree; chat rooms reflect how innocent the web was. Now, chat rooms are breeding grounds for creeps, spammers, and phonies. I think a way to safegaurd chat rooms is to go back to charging people a fee to join. Then you can weed out not only the scary people (for the most part) but also those with nothing but racist/crude/nonsensical comments to clutter up your topic or thread. Just like a club, by charging a membership fee, you give chat room members "exclusive" access and a sense of belonging, which is why I belive chat rooms started in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI used to go into chat rooms back when I had AOL years and years ago and people would do the whole a/s/l thing (age sex location) to get to know people better. I used to use it as a time waster to argue with people LoL.
ReplyDeleteBut as stated, the Internet used to be very innocent but now everyone has caught on and help make it an unsafe place. I don't like having a lot of logins, and I automatically block or close pop ups. I don't accept random people on facebook and twitter. I'm paranoid that every link is a virus LoL.
Generally people nowadays need to beware of everything they do on the internet just like they should be careful of their actions in real life because things you have done in the past may come back to haunt you.
Ah, this is why media literacy education is so very important!
ReplyDeleteI think chats rooms can be helpful depending on the use, talking over Skype or Oovoo to a long distance relative that you don't get to see often. I am thankful for Skype because other than email, that's the only way I get to see and HEAR my sister during a live conversation. However, I'm sure many chat rooms online are dangerous and can be harmful.
ReplyDeleteEntering personal information of any kind is very dangerous on an unfamiliar or pop-up site. I did once because everything sounded so promising, but I realized it was bogus before any harm could happen.