Talking to Strangers Online - 3441 Words

Talking to Strangers Online In recent years, the Internet has proved itself to be a niche of ever-growing clientele, offering its users a multitude of venues of entertainment, education and other beneficial uses; but other venues of mischief it provides as well. It has been a matter of public discord and a concern of parents and educationalists that millions of teen patrons are now online. A lot of them use the internet regularly, interacting with all sorts of content and technologies, and yet it is safe to say that the technologies that attract teens the most are those of online communication. These appear in many forms and have many uses, yet they can also pose multiple threats. Harassment, online bullying and anonymous immoral…show more content…They are also advised to fill in an about me section to aid other users in getting to know them (Boyd and Ellison). Profile visibility differs from one site to another and according to users security or discretion preferences.