Are Chat Rooms A Menace To Your Children? - 0 views
started by Connor Neumann on 24 May 13
started by Connor Neumann on 24 May 13
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You think free speech is a good point, until you read what anonymous, malicious teenage boys say to fifteen-year-old women. It is not Shakespeare, allow me to tell you...
My response would be: yes, with requirements.
I've been working internet boards since 1998, at Nothing fancy. The program was readily available. I just needed to make some important modifications: putting bad word filters and computerized 'kicking' (ejection from the rooms).
You think free speech is an excellent thing, until you read what unknown, nasty young men tell fifteen-year-old women. It's perhaps not Shakespeare, I want to inform you that.
That's still another key point: anonymity. A pillar of the free speech controversy. Let freedom fighters and the repressed people have their say! Except it is much more likely a sociopath pretending to be sixteen and making girls cry with his sickening profanity.
Free from all mors, and safe from physical retribution, we begin to see the contents of the subconscious serve forth unrestrained. And a stream of psychic sewage it's.
This is combated by bad term filters and having human moderators. The most gay cam crucial guard of, I do believe, is education. "Do not simply take candy from strangers", "You don't need drugs before you are ill", and now: "Do not bandy words with trolls" (people who deliberately upset other internet users with provocative language).
Most boards will have an 'dismiss' purpose. It is a bit like the hooligan in the street: he is *looking* for a reaction; in case you ignore him, it is frustrating. To him. You slip on by, figuratively speaking, while he rants on unheard.
Parents must simply take an in what their children are doing online. See in the event that you can find out what service they've joined, and join up yourself; get a taste of it. Teens establish themselves as adults-to-be by picking a different path to their parents: if you should be careful, they will try vice-versa, and liberalism.
Thus, you need to maybe not try to join in with their actions as an equal; just keep informed.
They might gripe, but privately they're glad you care. A parent who allows the youngster do whatever they want offers them no standard to measure themselves against.
Still another problem with basic boards is that you can develop an intense relationship with some one you can't see and haven't achieved in the flesh; there's a fantasy element. Your thoughts pour forth freely, you feel you've met a soul mate. You might also meet them, and the illusion remains...
... until you eventually know he or she is just a human being after all, and breaks wind like everybody else.
There is hope, nevertheless. With the development of low priced digital video cameras, web telephone and broadband, people will be less able to hide: "What do you mean, you are afraid? You were not shy one minute ago!" .. Conventional, practical prejudices can state themselves: "Soooo, 'Zorro' from Cambridge is really fat, irregular Darren from Dartford... next!" .. eap digital camcorders, internet telephone and broadband, people is going to be less in a position to hide: "What do you mean, you're shy? You're not afraid a minute ago!" .. Old-fashioned, wise prejudices can claim themselves: "Soooo, 'Zorro' from Cambridge is really fat, spotty Darren from Dartford... next!" ..