Cyber chatting is really fun and advantageous; however because of its popularity or mass appeal and easy free access, it has become a tool or instrument for criminals to use cyber chatting to fulfill their crimes.
Cyber chat has been so popular in the internet because it bridge people from different parts of the world and minimized the cost for travel far away to meet love ones, friends, and family who are far away. Thus, it minimized the depressive moods of others who are longing to see and chat with their love ones and special friends or just lonely and depress. A lonely person could find new friends to cheer him or her up, to listen to his problems, to find help, and other things in chatting that could cheer up and drive away the blues of a lonely depress person. Thus, it has also health advantage.
Moreover, speaking of health advantage, a sexually horny person could avoid contacting AIDS by just participating on cybersex instead of hiring in the flesh sexual worker. And that is not only health advantage but community advantage also because it minimized the spread of AIDS within the community or from people to people. That is really a good advantage.
Another good advantage of cyber chat is the government could catch sexual offenders or Pedophiliac by baiting an undercover child sexual worker. This has already been done in US many times.
The great advantage of cyber chatting is that some cyber chat rooms on some sites are free to use for one’s enjoyment. They offer a free cyber chat room for those who want to take advantage of the free option. However, you could also pay for it but only less if you want Maximum utilization of all the features of cyber chat.
Cyber chatting could also be a tool to discuss serious problems within your family to your family members who are far away to keep them updated and to participate virtually in solving the problems within your family. And like in the flesh personal discussion and confrontation, one could also do it on cyber chat even longer hours.
Another advantage of cyber chats is that one could find a date or a true love in partner by just chatting to the online chatters on a dating site. This already happen in real life, mostly among Filipinas who have met a foreign partner on dating sites with a cyber chat facility.
Cyber chats are also been used on businesses to chat with the employees within the company and could monitor the works of the employees if they are working well and an employee could send reports faster to bosses and supervisors for check up of it.
However, in other hand, a cyber chat disadvantage is mainly that it is being used for sexual crimes and harassment to other people online. Most people online whom you are talking to are not actually the person he or she describes himself or herself to you if he has no webcam to display himself or her. It could be that this person is deceiving you and want some information from you that he or she could use to exploit you.
The one who is most vulnerable to this kind of cyber crime are the ones who are lonely and depressed person and the teens ones who have an impulsive and submissive attitude. They are easy victims to such cyber fraudlers who want to take advantage of another person.
Another cyber crime perpetuated through cyber chatting is cyberstalking. Cyberstalking is the use of internet technology to harass and malign an individual or group through slandering and defamatory acts and spreading false information about an individual by robbing an individual’s identity. Moreover, a cyberstalker could also harm in the flesh his or her target by collecting datas and informations about the person or group he or she monitors online.