Chat RoomsWritten by Jesse S. Somer
In my short life, after years of talking too much, I’ve come to realize that if one is always speaking, one never listens. If you never listen to others, well, you’re limiting your access to a lot of knowledge and information. Recently, after much deliberation I thought I’d check out what world of Chat Rooms is like. People talk to each other by text, voice, and web cam. This is a really big phenomenon; I wanted to see what all fuss is about.I expect there are many chat rooms where people with similar interests get to know each other, and share their perspectives on various aspects of life. These are great, much cheaper than telephones, and multiple, random people can chat to one another simultaneously. But I speak truth, and my preconceived ideas about mindless gossip from jaded humans were sadly affirmed as I arbitrarily checked chat rooms that supposedly discussed important subjects. It seems some people are just very bored, and want to be cool and swear on-line, insulting others, and giving this area of information technology a bad name. I think a lot of people are using rooms solely for personal conversation that contextually no one else can understand. I went to a chat room about religion, and then to one about tattoos and it seemed like same people were talking. Most of conversation didn’t even touch supposed subject matter. It was definitely a disenchanting experience but hopefully with more research I hope to come across some serious rooms where true intent of creators has come to fruition.
| | Instant Messenging is a Pretty Sweet Way to CommunicateWritten by Jesse S. Somer
MSN messenger is a pretty cool invention. I mean I’m not really into serious discussions on email, answers to questions can often take a few days to arrive because people are so busy these days. I’ve just been ‘hooked up’ into Messenger and it’s really a different kind of communication, quick, simplistic and even humorous with capability to express your feelings with ‘emotion’ cartoons.With Messenger you can communicate with a group of close friends or business partners instantly whenever they are at their computer. When a message is received you are informed instantly on your desktop, you don’t have to be at an email site. A little box appears flashing name of sender, you read message and send a reply when you’ve got a second free. There’s a contact list and when you go on-line, it automatically tells you who of your connections are on and off-line at that moment. If someone goes on-line after you’ve already been at your computer, a small box appears on your screen to tell you who are now also instantly message able. It’s like spontaneity of a telephone call but you don’t even have to dial any numbers! Just log in your password and you’re connected.
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