Online chatting is destroying the young generation

India
September 8, 2008 7:27pm CST
I don't know which company at first facilitated online chatting through instant messenger. Whichever it be, I will say that it did nothing good by introducing the instant messenger. Instead, it just introduced the young generation with a way to go to the dogs! Oneline chatting is nothing but an addiction to the young generation! It becomes almost impossible for a person to quit chatting once he/she gets used to it. Some people start thinking chatting in the chatroom as heroic act...and their chatting id become very popular in the chatrooms!! In the chatrooms, what chatters talk is totally nonsense!! "Hi, hello, how are you, which school/college/varsity do you read in, give me your phone number...and so on are the common term in the chat rooms....and these are repeated days after days! Nothing achieved but a lot of valuable time is wasted. Some are there to find female friends, some only for addiction and some only to throw slang words to other chatters!! You will be dumbfounded to know what type of filthy language some chatters use in the chatrooms!!! Taboo words are mostly used in chatting...and some rascals give slang pointing fellow chatters' mothers or sisters!!! For this, sometimes I wonder what these chat services are for? Most of the time the unruly children of the affluent families are spoiled this way...becuase their parents have hardly any time to monitor what their children are doing!! In my opinion, chatting in Yahoo Messenger, MSN messenger, Mig33 or other messenger is a dangerous addiction similar to drug addiction and the younger generation should be keep off this at any cost.
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samtaylorskykierajen
@samtaylorskykierajen (7976)
• Canada
9 Sep 08
I agree with you !! I wish there had been a way to stop our daughter from these chats but it was not from lack of monitoring what she was doing . We would tell her she was not allowed to speak with strangers and she would go to someone's else's house to do it . She would forever change her name so that we couldn't keep track of her all the time and even all the monitoring her all home didn't work because she would still find a way to get on . We had an old computer that wouldn't allow you to go to the chat rooms and facebook and places so we figured it would be ok for her to go on to find out there are other ways to get around this . Her speaking to people she didn't know caused a whole lot of problems and to this day she says she hates us and no longer has anything to do with us . She is barely 16 and ran away and according to the law there is nothing we can do to protect her from herself because she is 16 and says that she wants nothing to do with us . This all starting because of online chatting and sites that let you talk to strangers such as facebook .
Feona1962
@Feona1962 (7526)
• United States
9 Sep 08
As long as it is there, they will use it....Unfortunately alot of parents are too busy to monitor...Kids find it a way of releasing frustration and it gives them a sense of control...Alot of it is just stupid crap...It isn't educational at all and is a waste of time....Just like all the video games... Too bad they can't get addicted to something more educational...