Social and Ethical Impacts of chatting

Chatting:

Background of Chatting:

[1]In 1988 people first time chat on internet. The first chat server was tolsun.oulo.fi, which was developed in University of Oulu, Information Processing Science Department (Finland).

At that time people can only chat via text, people cannot share images and videos during chatting.

Social Implications of Chatting:

What are the social impacts of chatting on human life?

Can every one chat whether he/she is child, young, and old?

What to do when you are chatting online?

People are socially connected to their fellows and family member on internet whether they are anywhere in the world through chatting. If my friend goes to Australia after degree, then I can stay connected with him via chatting. There are different chat rooms on internet and we can get information and can also share our views on those topics. If I have a problem, then I can ask it from my friend which is online on internet.

There are some issues which are not good socially. Different people create dummy accounts for blackmailing people and they give wrong information. Some people create girl account and try to be friends of girls.

Some people say that people from any age can chat because if you are child then you can get different information with chat rooms and young people can also groom socially while chatting. Old people when they are alone can also chat for passing their time.  One the other hand some people says that internet is not good for children’s and adults. There is pornographic material on chat rooms which is not good for children and adults as well. They say that only mature people should chat on intenet.

Some Precautionary measures:

1-For the first time children begin to chat, it's important for parents to be in very close with their children to see what their children’s are doing while chatting.

2-We should not respond to any messages while chatting that are mean or in any way make us feel uncomfortable. If we do, we will Log off and should not respond.

Ethical Implications of Chatting:

Hacking is Ethical?

Using others account after stealing password is ethical?

Privacy is the major feature which should be maintained by chatting software and sites.

People send you a link during chat and if you will open it, then your password will be sending to the person which sends you link. It is unethical approach.

Some people steal account information on internet and misuse your account. If someone steal my password and come online and send vulgar message to my colleague, then it will affect my relationship with my colleague. It is ethically wrong. (It is my personal experience that someone steals my password and send vulgar message to my friend.)

Some people develop virus, spywares, Trojan horse and spread it via chatting, New user cannot judge what is it and it will harm his/her computer.

Some Precautionary measures:

1-We should not give out our account password to anyone even they are our best friends (For avoiding password theft).

2-We will be a good online citizen and not do anything that hurts other people (Ethical Responsibility).

3- We should not give out personal information such as our address, telephone number, or the name and location of our Institute.