- Chen
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With the rapid development of Internet, we can now do various things online.Online chat room is a topic which is hotly dicussed at the moment.Wheater the chat room brings us good or not, opions divides.
Some people are against online chat rooms because they think much of what we talk in the chat room are not real, and there will not be a solution if you want to ask someone for help. Worse still,we may be cheated by those wicked ones. On the contrary, a large a mount of people think that chat rooms do bring us good. It provides us with chance of talk freely and to exchange idea on some issues.Besides,if you are in trouble, you ask for help in a chat room then there may probably be a solution since there are so many people there.
In my opion, the advantage of the chat room outweigh the disadvantage of it.We can make good use of chat rooms.
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- meira
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A chat room or chatroom is a term used primarily by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology ranging from real-time online chat over instant messaging and online forums to fully immersive graphical social environments.
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* 1 Text-based chat
* 2 Graphical multi-user environments
* 3 Chat room activities
* 4 Rules of behaviour
* 5 Dangers
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links
[edit] Text-based chat
Online chat is a way of communicating by sending text messages to people in the same chat-room in real-time. The oldest form of true chat rooms are the text-based variety. The most popular of this kind is Internet Relay Chat (IRC). However, there are also talkers and havens. The popularity of these kinds of chat rooms has waned over the years, and IRC"s popularity has rapidly given way to instant messaging. Also a notable number of people were introduced to chat rooms from AOL and web chat sites.
There are also graphical user interface (GUI) text-based chat rooms which allow users to select an identifying icon and modify the look of their chat environment.
[edit] Graphical multi-user environments
Visual chat rooms (Runescape,Active Worlds, Habbo Hotel, Chatablanca, There, etc) add graphics to the chat experience, in either 2D or 3D (employing virtual reality technology). These are characterized by using a graphic representation of the user (avatar) that can be moved about a graphic background or in a graphic environment. These virtual worlds are capable of incorporating elements such as games (in particular massively multiplayer online games) and educational material most often developed by individual site owners, who in general are simply more advanced users of the systems. The most popular environments also allow users to create or build their own spaces.
Some visual chat rooms also incorporate audio and video communications, so that users may actually see and hear each other. However, some find these types of environments cumbersome to use and actually an impediment to chatting.
[edit] Chat room activities
The primary use of a chat room is to share information via text with a group of other users. New technology has enabled the use of file sharing and webcams to be included in some programs and almost all Internet chat or messaging services allow users to display or send to each other photos of themselves.
Some people who visit chat rooms use them as a place to experience online sex, also known as cybersex or computer love. While not physically able to see their partner, cyber-ers apparently get stimulation by reading x-rated quotes. While many in the media focus on this aspect of chat rooms as it certainly boosts their ratings, it is by no means the only thing chat rooms are used for. It is important that the partakers in such activities do not reveal personal information such as addresses as sexual predators may use cybersex as a tool to stalk chatroom users.
Games are also often played in chat rooms. Historic examples are initgame, Hunt the Wumpus on IRC or an AOL chatroom game in AOL chat rooms.
But the true use of a chat room is still to meet old and new people.
[edit] Rules of behaviour
Chat rooms usually have stringent rules that they require users to follow in order to maintain integrity and safety for their users. Particularly in rooms for children, rules usually do not allow users to use offensive language, or to promote hate mail, violence and other negative issues. Also chat rooms often do not allow advertising in their rooms or flooding, which is continually filling the screen with repetitive text. TYPING WITH CAPS LOCK ON IS USUALLY CONSIDERED SHOUTING AND IS DISCOURAGED. Chat rooms usually have a list of rules for users to obey when they chat online.
Sometimes chat room venues are moderated either by limiting who is allowed to speak (not common), or by having moderation volunteers patrol the venue watching for disruptive or otherwise undesirable behaviour.
Yet, most commonly chat rooms are not moderated and users may type what they personally choose to send. As stated before, chatrooms are an honest (not always positive) comparison to real life public activities!
[edit] Dangers
As chat rooms are often frequented by children, they can be an avenue for pedophiles to initiate contact with potential victims. Predators will often pose as a child themselves, and attempt to lure children into a face-to-face meeting. Predators will often target the more quiet children in a chat room, hoping the attention will inspire interest in the new conversation. Researchers in the area advise parents to always be aware of what their children are doing while online, and be wary of secretive behaviour, such as avoiding letting parents see what is on the computer screen.
- 大鱼炖火锅
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Nowadays,people can get almost any information from the internet,but some information can have negative influences on young people and even our society. The following essay discusses whether there should be censorship of information in society or not.
To begin with, some information is harmful for children, therefore we should protect children from some information. By this I mean, children are easily influenced and they cannot distinguish what is right or real and what is wrong or unreal, as they are immature, and hey probably imitate what they have seen. As a consequence, we should protect children from some information such as excessive violence or obscene material, so that they can grow up to be valuable members of society.
Another point to bear in mind is that some information which could be harmful to society should be censored. For example, some material that encourages racism,violence or terrorism threatens social security, and it might lead to some serious social problems, such as crimes. Therefore, the government should ban this kind of information in films,books or on the internet.
However, people do have the right to choose what they what to know, and they should be allowed access to most information. Further more, most adults are good people and will not be influenced in a negative way easily, thus they should have the freedom to decide what they want to know, and the government should not censor all information, as the government is only a group of people after all.
In conclusion, parents should strictly control what their children watch or read, and the government should censor such information in children"s books, films or websites. In addition, the government should ban some information which encourages racism, violence and terrorism, as it is harmful to society. However, on the other hand, since it is people"s right to choose what they want to know, the government should not censor most information.