Chatting on the Internet

The Internet, the worldwide network of millions of computers, is the number one modern method to communicate and get information. Our generation uses the Internet to talk on-line (chatting) with relatives, friends, or strangers. Young people know how to send messages and get instant responses from one or more people at a time. But this chatting is becoming totally fraud. Chatting is spoiling our younger generation.

To be in contact with our relations all over the world is an advantage. You get to keep up with the latest information, exchange ideas, and not feel alone. But I think that because of how some people are using the Internet, chatting has become more of a disadvantage.

Typical of our younger generation guys want to make friendships with girls — in real life or on-line. Guys want to chat with girls. If a guy finds out the e-mail address of a girl he is attracted to, or he receives a friendly message from someone that appears attracted to him, he’ll add the message sender’s name and e-mail address to his on-line “address book.” The assumption, of course, is that the person on the other end of the message is a girl.

However many guys seem to think it’s funny to pretend that they are girls and make up e-mail addresses with girl’s names. They laugh at other people who fall for their mean jokes. They enjoy playing with the emotions of others. There are even growing numbers of girls doing the same thing to girls — pretending to be guys.

Due to this mean spirited form of chatting, the innocent hearts of many people have been broken and now they have lost their trust in using the Internet.

What causes people to act this way? Why waste so much energy and precious time purposely, ruining people’s lives? I’m asking those that do this, don’t do it anymore.

Mohammad U.
Karachi, Pakistan

* Reprinted from Positive Teens Magazine Volume 6 Issue 5, Sept/Oct 2004

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