Can internet chat rooms be dangerous?
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The first and most important thing you need to realize about the Internet is that you can find anything and anyone on the Internet that you can find in the real world.  The only difference is that in the Internet you have a greater deal of anonymity that you get in the real world.\n\nCan chat rooms be dangerous?  Most definitely.  Particularly channels that clearly are catering to younger children.  Pedophiles go where the kids are, and that is just as true on the Internet as in the "real world".\n\nDoes that mean you should avoid all chat channels? Not at all.  Just be aware of what you are doing and saying, and if you have small children, be sure to monitor their activity on the Internet.\n\nThere are several programs, as I recall, that allow parents to track what their children are seeing and doing while on-line.
81769
Of course yes!!! There is no 100% ideal antivirus software in the world.many new viruses are spread in the internet daily and anti viruses can not detect new, unknown viruses. therefore never trust your anti virus, in addition to that anti virus programs can not recognize spyware/adware softwares.although using yahoo messenger just for chatting is almost safe but it changes to dangerous when you receive executable files through file transfer feature of the messenger and run them on your computer.never download and run an executable file until you 100% trust the source or you will install a trojan/keylogger,.. by your own hands on your computer!!!!\nI hope these information can help you.
71352
No. It is dangerous to make friends with strangers on the internet.
102003
online chat invitations are DANGEROUS\n\nget a REAL life...
1003612
if i was a parent i would never let children on the computer unless i was sitting next to them because there are too many bad sites.i would never let them in chatrooms because you do not know who the person is and if they are really a child
409074
Schools, Colleges and University's block chat rooms, e-mail sites, sex etc. Although there are ways around sometimes but be-careful and also there may be someone employed to see what sites and downloads people have been on and can get you in trouble best to do these things at home.
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Recently, I was bored one night and decided to go into a chat room.  Years ago I occasionally visited a chat room that was associated with a video game, and it was a lot of fun and actually pretty pleasant.  THat chat room has been closed for a long time, so I tried Yahoo.  I downloaded Yahoo messenger (which took an hour because I have dial-up) and went into a room.\n\nIt was horrible.  Constant bots spamming, telling me all about web cam girls or visit this or that site for such and such.  I tried several rooms; most were full of bots, and a few had people fighting and arguing.  There was only one room that seemed halfway normal, but I didn't really even like that one, so I closed it.  I tried again a few nights later but got frustrated after about five minutes of it.  I haven't opened Yahoo messenger since.
381712
Get lost you fatty chat room chatter. God - ppl are dying in the world, and all you care about is chat rooms. Shame on you fatty.
7737
Be very, very careful with internet love.  I've had a couple of psychos threaten to kill me, after I decided I didn't want to talk to them, or they realized I was chatting to someone else besides them.
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not dangerous but it does load a ton of useless junk / spyware on your computer\n\ngo to oldversion.com and get aim 5.2.3292, and download aimutation 1.3.2 from softpedia
196671
I know what you mean. You need AOL for the real chat rooms that so not include 12-21yr-olds selling their own porn. AOL's chatrooms labeled nutrition actually talks about nutrition/weight loss NOT age/sex/location cyber sex like AIM chats.
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Most companies won't allow things like chat on their equipment (liability and public image reasons as well as security) ... chances are, your network firewall logged you out.
439249
I must say there is no real safe way of children and teen chat. Try welknown children sites, maybe the have a chat as wel, always safer then any chatroom. Besides do always be carefull of it because there are always people out there that oppose a children or teens to take abuse. So watch out for personal questions, naver give out personal information or wanting to meet up, don't give out addresses, telephonenumbers or ids or passwords. Besides letting children chat in public only on supervision, they are vulnerable and very easy to be convinced. So if i was the parent I only let them chat with friends I knew of from school or family or neighbours.good luck
943405
Just stay away from the PC. Unhook your computer and donate it to a charity and never ever go near a PC again. I can guarantee you that you won't talk to any people in the internet land again. ;)
830309
As in anything, use caution. If you are easily talked into something, and from what you have said you do not seem to be that way, then internet can be very dangerous to young inexperienced people.\n\nTo say that the internet is totally dangerous I cannot agree with that. I have personally met some very nice people on the net. I have talked to them extensively for months before thinking about meeting them. In fact I met my wife on the internet, and I am not the only one to do so. We have been happily married and together for over 7 years. (we are both retired)\n\nThe best advice I can give is to be very very cautious and level headed about those you talk to on the net and never just jump at what might look like a good strawberry shortcake there can be some bad strawberries in the mix.
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you shouldnt need software to use a chat room. you just have to find one and use it.
423307
putting your e-address online can be really dangerous.