What are the Disadvantages and advantages of chat rooms?

Answer 1

disadvantages:

Even if you've been chatting to the same person for ages and you feel like you know them, remember it's very easy to lie on the internet and there is no way of knowing if someone is telling the truth. Even if someone shows you a photo of themselves, this could be a picture of someone else or could be faked. This applies to webcam or video footage too; seeing a person in a video, does not mean it's them.

• Be careful not to share too much information with other people in chat rooms. You don't know who could be listening in or what they might do with that information. If you wouldn't be comfortable yelling it out in a crowded room, it's best not to write it in a chat room.
• There are some adults who will try to get in touch with young people and children because they have bad intentions. Bear this in mind whilst you use chat areas. If anything makes you suspicious tell an adult you trust or report any serious concerns to us using our reporting button.
• Make sure you know how to block Instant Messaging contacts. They will not be told you have blocked them; you will just appear offline in their contacts list, so they cannot message you. Don't forget you can always delete a contact if you don't wish to talk to them anymore.
• It's also a good idea to learn how to save conversations. This way, if anything weird or dodgy happens, you have evidence of it and you can show it to an adult you trust or copy and paste it into our reporting form.
• If you think someone has hacked into your account - report it to the people who run the site.
• Look out for this icon on other websites. This means that you can report abuse directly to CEOP from those sites. For example, MSN Live Messenger has a tab with this icon on it.

advantages:

It's a fantastic way of getting in touch with friends and family, and meeting new people. Unlike in a chat room where everyone can see what everyone else is writing, with IM, you can chat privately. People can be added or removed from conversations so you can talk in groups. IM is a really quick and easy way to share files like photos, music or web links and you can customise your settings to personalise you area. It's cool cos you can change your status to be away, busy or do not disturb, etc. You can even appear offline when you are online; sneaky!

Answer 2

A chat room is a form of synchronous communication, which allows two or more users who are present; to interact with each other at the same time over a virtual interface. Chatting on the Internet comes in many forms. You can have one-on-one chatting via instant messaging software. You can also have group discussions via a chat room or a forum. However, as with anything, you can find advantages and disadvantages to having Internet chats.

Advantages

• You can meet new, interesting people but NEVER meet ANY of these people in person because most people that want to meet you in person are most likely going to rape you or something.

• Something to do just to pass the time away

• In well-monitored chat rooms, it is possible to meet people from all over the world that share common interests on topics such as music and entertainment,politics and religion in safe and non- threatening environment.

• You can communicate directly with people and it can save you time. (group meeting and so on.)

• You can participate in an online community where there is no judgement based upon appearance.

There are many advantages to using instant messenger. It connects people regardless where they are actually located. In the company, colleagues can send and reply instant message in real time without face to face, meanwhile the work report can be shared during the instant chat session; the IM can make a virtual conference without get all the related people together in a physical meeting room. People can speak to multiple people in the virtual conference, share ideas and get conclusions. People on a business trip can contact the co-works inside the company through IM as well. What's more, the staff can talk to customers or vendors online as well, in other word, now people can do business through the instant messenger direct rather than use the traditional method like make phone calls.

Disadvantages:

• Most people lie about their age

• Also who they really are

• A lot of pedophiles go there to try to meet young people in person

• Sometimes you can get weird types of viruses.

The chat room discussions may become sexual or violent, or could promote hatred against others.

• Because some people feel totally anonymous in chat rooms, they believe they can act in any manner they want. (Girls in particular may receive crude ro sexual comments).

• Chat rooms are cruising grounds for pedophiles and other predators who want to make contact with young people. Thats because young teenagers may feel anonymous when chatting online, so they are more likely to speak honestly and conversations can quickly become intimate.

• Online relationships with strangers in chat rooms can lead to you being cyberstalked, sent pornography or pressured to arrange a real-world meeting.

• You can become too involved in risk-taking activities. (Online flirting or sexual chat).

• Chat room participants can end up hurting others. "Flaming," where you make personal insults or disrespect a person, is common in chat rooms.

· There are of course disadvantages of instant messaging. While the real time response is great, IMs do take away the face to face, personal experience that people have when they are speaking to someone in person. You can't really get a very good emotional bead on someone through IM nor are you sure of who you are talking to through IM, which can be dangerous if you aren't careful. Other disadvantages include -

· Uncertainty that the person you are talking to is the person you are talking to, especially when you are not very familiar with the things and risks of the internet. This can be dangerous. Also your computer may be attacked of viruses due to you may accidentally receive some files from the unknown people or click a disguised URL.

· In company environment, there will be potential for misuse. People in workplaces may use the IMs during work time to chat with friends and waste time or even bring the possible virus from outside.

There are of course disadvantages of instant messaging. While the real time response is great, IMs do take away the face to face, personal experience that people have when they are speaking to someone in person. You can't really get a very good emotional bead on someone through IM nor are you sure of who you are talking to through IM, which can be dangerous if you aren't careful. Other disadvantages include -

Uncertainty that the person you are talking to is the person you are talking to, especially when you are not very familiar with the things and risks of the internet. This can be dangerous. Also your computer may be attacked of viruses due to you may accidentally receive some files from the unknown people or click a disguised URL.

In company environment, there will be potential for misuse. People in workplaces may use the IMs during work time to chat with friends and waste time or even bring the possible virus from outside.

Have you ever watched the new? Well, when viewing the new a common kidnapping or even killing is because of people meeting on the internet. Many children these day talk to other people not knowing that those people are older guys trying to lure the children in. For example: An episode on the T.V show "Smart Guy" where T-Jay was chatting online about Video Games and thought he was talking to another child when the topic of selling video games for cheap. Once he met up with the guy, the guy ended up being an older man who was really involved in child pornography. Situations like this occur and children should be cautious about the people they choose to chat with.

Instant messaging has been widely used with the power of internet, people can use an IM talk to family, friends, co-workers, even make new friends, join a interesting discussion or chat room through internet, in this way, people can talk to anyone in the world. As a rule for almost everything, while there are advantages, there are also downsides to instant messenger or IMs. In this article, we will take a look at the advantages and the disadvantages of this instant technology.

There are also some security risks like the content of the instant message may be intercepted. As a result the sensitive data like customer list, sales report may be revealed on the internet.

In conclusion, if you will use an IM inside the company, you should consider the advantages and disadvantages of the instant messenger as mentioned above and select an enterprise level instant messenger will be a good choice since most of the IMs offer strong encryption of the instant messaging transferred. If you will use an IM with friends and family, please do not receive files from the people unknown.