Topic Proposal: Problems with Chatrooms

One problem with chatrooms is that it can prevent children from growing in certain social areas because they spend so much time on the computer instead of talking to people face to face.  It also keeps children from wanting to go play outside and be active.  Then, they do not learn to enjoy being active in order to stay healthy.

Also, in chatrooms many people abbreviate words and do not pay attention to punctuation.  If one consistently writes this way in a chatroom it can become difficult to write a proffesional paper with the correct spelling and punctuation.

However, the biggest problem with chatrooms is the issue of children meeting strangers online who end up being very dangerous and try to get the child to turn over personal information so that the stranger can take advantage of the child.