Can chat rooms be dangerous

Answer 1

If you're a smart person, no. Common sense helps when talking to people on chat rooms.

If people begin to talk about things you are not interested in, or are too mature/immature for your tastes, leave.

If you are ever uncomfortable, leave.

It does not hurt to give out basic info such as your first name, your cat's name, your country, continent, state, or province.

What does make a chat room dangerous is giving out your address, last name, credit card number, phone number, PIN, or other things you would not want strangers to figure out.

Answer 2

No person can guarantee the absolute safety of any internet site at this time. Anyone can manage to get into any chat room with enough motivation and a little skill. What constitutes the best 'safety system' for any chat room in the world is the knowledge, wits and if necessary supervision of the individual user. When things go seriously wrong in chat room settings, it is because information was shared with the wrong party naively, ignorantly, or because security/privacy systems were not in place.

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Chatrooms are live and open to the public, therefore what is said cannot be taken back (i.e. a phone number or address); because of this, if a chatroom is not used properly, they can become potentially dangerous. However, some chatrooms are moderated, which means a human watches over the conversations taking place, and can eject trouble makers or people who are sending out unsafe information - it is better to check this first than to wait until it is potentially too late. Some chatrooms are specifically related to child use, particular age group or topic. Chat users are not always fully honest about themselves and their characteristics, but the person who chats has no way of knowing if "studmuffin, 17" is really "weird man, 49". It is best to choose nicknames that don't make your gender obvious or attract the wrong kind of interest, like "sexybeast15". Young people need to be especially aware of the dangers of chatrooms, as younger people are more likely to become victims of the whole "stranger danger" scenario As well as child poachers! Chatrooms can also transfer viruses to your computer either if you need to download software to use the website or via other users. So, to summarise, no matter what precautions are taken, chatrooms can be dangerous places, and it is advisable to check whether a chatroom is safe through research rather than to wait until it is too late.

Answer 3

What is dangerous about internet chat rooms is that people can track you, and execute you. Some people are just dumba bout what they put out, examples are home addresses,

its better you work with a fake name and then you'll be safe

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most of the things has pros and cons. chatrooms is not a good thing to use. especially for teenagers. it is not possible that teenagers are free, because they have to focus on their studies not in chatrooms, mobiles, internet etc. They should completely focus on their studies, and development activities. using chatrooms, is just wastage of time nothing else.

Answer 4

Most on-line chat rooms are safe, but to a certain extent. People should enter on-line chat rooms that are monitored in order to not get caught in a pedophiles private chat, or just some pervert.

Answer 5

because online you dont know whether these people are telling the truth or what they look like or their pesonality. Also there are stalkers and predators. :)

Answer 6

Yes, especially is u tell them where u live

Answer 7

Chatrooms can only be dangerous if you tell any personal information about yourself. Don't tell ANYONE about your full name, address, etc.

Answer 8

Chat rooms, obviously, are not safe, ask yourself this: What is the point of talking to people you don't know? (Louwrens Holtzhausen)