I would say it depends on who you are chatting with.
Some negative impacts for online chatting are: giving out too much personal information, chatting with people you do not know or do not know well, possibly chatting with someone who might cause you harm, etc.
doubt it . what do you call under age chatting. chatting online has resulted to kiddnappings and murders
It is not necessary to be online while chatting, I chat to my neighbour over the garden fence and neither of us need to be online to do this.
If you are safe
Start chatting with them. What do you have to lose?
i think chatting online is NOT sAFE! I'VE SEEN KIDS GET IN TROUBLE FROM THAT
you can't really help the fact if their is no chatting because if it has a online multiplayer, it has online chatting. I'm sorry, but you'll have to let your kid go and actually have trust in him/her.
One of the most popular online chatting websites is Facebook. Another popular chatting website, one that uses webcams to connect the users, is ChatRoulette.
Pie!
Kick his ass, or any equivilant. If he is "chatting" that is the same as "Flirting" which leads to "Fornicating" So treat his "chatting" like you are catching him "Fornicating".
It is not safe to chat online with people you have not met in person. There is too much risk of people misrepresenting themselves.
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