Internet users have many options to chat with people
from around the world online. They can opt for text messaging, voice
chatting, and video chatting. Chatting is an exciting way to connect
with the online world. Internet users can exchange information with each other by
chatting online.It has advantages as well as disadvantages which
are discussed below:
Advantages of Chatting
1. Connect with Anyone: Chatting
allows users on the internet to meet and connect with new people
online. Internet users can write, share, and talk about anything to
people who get connected with them.2. Have Fun: Many people get bored in homes by doing same old things everyday, and they want to come out of boredom; therefore, they do chatting for fun.
3. Inexpensive Mean of Communication: Internet chatting is an inexpensive and useful option to communicate with friends or family members. Therefore, it helps people who live far away from their friends and families.
4. Protect Identities: Internet users can choose a nickname to chat with people online if they want to hide their true names from people on the internet.
5. Boosts Confidence: There are people in our world who find it very difficult to talk with people face to face. Chatting provides useful resources to such people to help them communicate and build confidence.
Disadvantages of Chatting
1. Hidden Identities: An internet user can chat with another person online with a fake identity either for pleasure or for hiding his true self. This drawback applies to a text and voice chat.
2. Birth of Slang Words: People who chat online like to respond quickly to a participant or participants; therefore, abbreviate their messages and invent slang terminologies. For example, LOL (Laugh Out Loud). Birth of slang words is not a good sign for Linguistics since slang terms have no respect for a language.
3. Communication Gap: Emotions of people can be felt with a tone of voice (voice chat) and face (video chat), but a person online cannot detect emotions of an internet user who post text messages. Text chatting creates a communication gap between people who communicate with each other. Therefore, people should be extra careful while sending text messages.
4. Sharing of Information is Hazardous: There are people on the internet who hide truth about them. They can use personal information about someone for a wrongdoing. Therefore, people who chat online should never share their personal information including their cell phone number, address, and photos with anyone on the internet. However, if a person online agrees to meet someone in person, he should inform his relatives before meeting that person.
5. People Go Offline Without Warning: People can go offline while chatting online without warning.