What are the negative ways that chat rooms affect our social life?

doing a presentation for my college English class must know the ways that networking socializing websites affect our social life in an negative aspect. Tried to find statistics but couldn't find any. Are there any concerning how many are socializing in chat rooms. is there anything I could put in my presentation that will gain the class attention or any other ideas?

What are the negative ways that chat rooms affect our social life?sexy myspace

I think people find it very easy to be negative online in ways that they would not in real life. Something about being online and relatively anonymous gives people the courage to be really vicious with other people in a way that they might not be in face-to-face interaction.

There's also the fantasy aspect, because people build all these social networks built on projection. You can think your friends are really great, because you don't have to deal with as many of their negative aspects in a way that you would if you had to spend a lot of face time with them. Spending face-to-face time with people requires using a lot of psychological and emotional skills not required online, such as reading facial and vocal cues, body language, etc. These are things you use later in life when dealing with people in the job market, dating, etc.

Edit: Following up on the projection concept, people who are creating fantasy images of their online social networks may also begin to find that their own self image is no longer "good enough." There is a known correlation between time spent online and depression. Now, correlation means that we don't know a causal factor, but certainly if you're spending a lot of time online in chat with a fantasy social life, and neglecting a real social life, and now the real you is no longer good enough, depression is going to likely follow (in this instance). I think it can't be good for one's self image, at the very least.

These are some of the possible negative effects of chat rooms that I've noticed and have spent some time thinking about lately. Interesting topic! Good luck on this. It's actually something I would suggest you look at in social science journals. It's definitely something I've considered going back to look at for further research myself. The grant money's definitely there.

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people chat on line instead of getting out socializing and actually meeting people face to face
In chats rooms people chat me up but when I go to meet them a bad fairy

cast a spell.

My chat room mate changes.

Turn out to be not 20 but 50.

They don鈥檛 have blond hair, its grey hair.

They don鈥檛 weigh 50kg they weight 150kg.

They don鈥檛 work at a gym, they just don鈥檛 work.
I think that it has really hampered how we as a nation treat and talk to one another. Cell phones with annoying ring tones.

Chatting with people instead actually going and meeting them. Hell, going out at all. I can pay my bills, get food, talk to friends and family, have my house cleaned inside and out with just a computer and a modem. What would happen if something like Y2k had actually happened. The whole world would be pushed back a century or even more for that matter. Read Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson. It's kinda scary, no conspiracy theories needed.