Online chat

your tablet. Nowadays young children are getting all these mobile devices and laptops without knowing of the dangers and repercussions of what can happen. My younger sister, Tylia, is in seventh grade and comes home from school telling me horror stories about her friends sending pictures, messaging, and talking to these strangers on the phone that they only met online. Predators online are very manipulating. Sometimes adults end up falling for the same trap that children do. A show called Catfish shows many adults getting scammed by people who are pretending to be someone else over the internet. If adults are…

The CHAT program provides wide ranging direct services to children (ages 0 –18) through Human Services Agency of Merced County. As stated by “Merced County “CHAT” program”http://www.mercedwib.com/youthcouncil/archive/111407_7b_YC_CHAT_Operational_Agreement.pdf they receive many referrals community wide from schools, law enforcement, child welfare, doctors, domestic violence programs, churches, and the community at large. The CHAT services are especially focused on children who are dependents of…

Online Relationships: Connected but Isolated Technological advances have revolutionized how we communicate with each other. They have opened a new medium for communication; one for which physical distance does not matter. The emergence of email, social media networks, online chat rooms and blogs make it possible to connect with people from all parts of the world with a simple touch of a screen. Thus, the Internet enables us to establish all kinds of online relationships; we can make friends…

the internet below. The Internet is a boon for society : The internet is the hub for global information. It facilitates us to search and explore and research about any strange topic. It is beneficiary of students, assisting them to finish the projects. It helps employees to work and sort the tasks. It is a safe place with a friendly environment. Once we dive into the internet, we forgot about the reality. The internet offers a wide range of social networks. With these social media sites and…

Reflections of an AA Meeting Attendance by a Non-Alcoholic Support Meeting Reflection I attended an online Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. There were twenty-six participants there, including myself; two of which were moderators. I had actually logged on early, as is my habit attending seminars, and observed the other participants chatting beforehand. I was surprised by the lack of seriousness surrounding this whole process. The group members were not somber, in fact they were displaying…

If we would want to travel somewhere, we would have to use a map, but now we have GPs that can get us almost anywhere. Also for vacations, we would have to go physically to a travel agency and speak to a person to book flights or hotels. Today we can cut out almost all communication and we can do all of this online just by the swipe of a touch screen or the click of a mouse. Cell phone is almost number one of the things that distract us. Most people are usually on their phones. Cell phone…

Within these interpersonal relationships, different platforms for communication will be explored, such as online communication, like online chatting or online dating, and face-to-face communication. LITERATURE REVIEW Before these two forms of communication are discussed, online and face-to-face, the uncertainty reduction strategies must be discussed, because with different channels of communication, strategies vary. Theiss and Solomon separated the information seeking behaviors of the…

communicate to each other through tweets, messages, or phone calls instead of having to walk into another room to communicate physically (Shaughnessy). Although people are performing a form of communication with calling one another verbal communication is declining due to social networking. Email is the most popular form of online communication on average are over one hundred billion emails are sent per day (Eastman). People could argue that there is not less verbal communication happening due…

Overview The web application that we will be developing is called U-Chat (University Chat). U-Chat is a versatile chat room web service in which the users you communicate with consist of people from the same University. U-Chat can be used by a wide number of users from Universities across the US; the primary audience for this application being college students. Secondary users would include University faculty and parents. U-Chat consists of a login page in which users can either choose to sign…

Christopher Poole, the creator of 4-Chan, another online forum, said this about the changing online world: “We went from a web that was interest-driven, and then we transitioned into a web where the connections were in-person, real-life friendship relationships.” (Krotoski, “Online identity: is authenticity of anonymity more important?”) In general, some of the use and intention of Discord are synonymous; participants use the application for its intended purpose by discussing online gaming.…