Online Chatrooms and Children

Chatrooms are not safe for children. Once hooked onto chatrooms you can't even moniter them. I feel kids should be kept away from using the internet with so much stuff you don't want to expose them to. I don't allow my kids to have a computer in their own room...or if they had a computer in their room, they wouldn't have access to the internet on it. You can't trust anyone you meet on the net...even adults have problems filtering the genuine people from the wierdos...how would kids be able to know?

well if you just talk about kids i'd never ever let them go into any sort of chatrooms on the net.....and if it comes on teenagers than i guess it's fairly better coz they can take care of themselves and are such a level that they can differentiate between the good and evil...so it's ok wid them in my case.....but only in a limit would it all be allowed to them even

I do not allow my children to be on the computer unless I am there with them. I am very strict about what they can do on the internet.

Believe me when I say I know for a fact it's unsafe. I was never monitored online. I don't want to even say how many adult men were hitting on me knowing I was a kid. I loved the attention back then - Luckilly for me nothing bad ever happened to me because of it. I won't let my kids chat online because of my past.

I don't think children are safe in certain chat rooms. I think most chat rooms are full of pervs, and "weirdos." That's why I bought my own chat room. I regulate who is there, and what is talked about. It's a small chat room, with a family-type atmosphere. If you wanna check it out sometime, my nick there is "AnGeLiC." www.justanotherchat.com

I don't think parents should let their kids get on the computer at all unless they are seriously going to keep up with what they are doing. It's just to bad these days. You don't know who to trust any more.

Oh yes they should. There are many stalkers online waiting for their victims to come so that they can be involved in unethical deeds Well yes, usually the net is such a place where you cannot identify a person he might try to be good but then isnt actually so So its better to keep the children away from such fantasies in order to avoid them from taking any wrong step

i do not think online chatting for children should be much recommended. as they are many pevert in chatrooms who are looking for easy prey.

nope, there are many weirdos on there.

well i used to use online chat rooms when i was a teenager. my mother really didn't care or take an interest in me or it. i just think if you take an interest in what your child is doing and make sure you tell them about the dangers and how the proper way to meet someone then they should be able to make the right desisions, like never meet someone online alone, and always bring someone with you.

Parents should always monitor how the children are using the internet...there are a lot of ways of getting wrong information and ideas and they may not be aware of the dangers lying underneath..so i think it is the duty of the parents to enforce a control...but that should mean that they should be spied upon or not allowing them...Net is good as far as we dont misuse it...so a little restriction would do good...

chatrooms are highly a risky place to share ur personal things.. it can be simply used for time pass..

i think there shuld be a certian system in which there shuld be options for logging acounts for kids/adults before logging onto the internet...this would surely solve the problem..........

Well my girls are a little young now. They are almost 6 & 7 1/2. You would not believe how well my oldest handles a computer though. When the time comes where she is wanting to chat either in an IM or a room, you can bet I will be keeping a close eye on her. We all ready have a parental control on the kids computer. I know better than to trust who people say they may be.

Hi! I think chat rooms can be dangerous, especially for children. I think one solution is for parents to supervise what their kids do online. My little one in only 4, but as she gets older, I won't let her use the Internet unless I approve of the site she's using and what she's doing. I don't use chat rooms myself. I don't foresee letting her use them, either.

No, it is not safe. I know - I used to be one of those kids. Got myself into lots of trouble with older men. They knew my age, but they didn't care.

nope its not gud for children ...parents shud take care of it...

Chatrooms are the playing ground for predators, I would not want my children to participate in any form of chatroom. It is just too dangerous. I have never heard of a safe chatroom...even if the name sounds innocent, children are at risk of being manipulated and I fear for what may be the outcome of that...

In my early 20's, I joined AOL. I was in the chat rooms all the time, and unless I told somebody how old I was, there was no way anybody had a clue how old I was. I constantly had some loser IM me wanting to "cyber". It was disgusting. So I know that it is definitely dangerous for children and teenagers to be online in chat rooms. Parents should be monitoring their kids' online activities and keep them safe!

definitely it's not safe for children and teenagers to use online chatrooms...it's dangerous not unless their using it to talk to someone they already know, a member of the family or a friend overseas.