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Technology is undoubtedly the most of all indispensable necessity of power and development in the modern word. The world has become a global village thanks to this very phenomenon called technology. We can find an enormous success in technology around us. Electronic Media is yet another form of modern technology that is getting updated with every passing moment. Electronic media previously loosely synonymous to TV and Radio only is not limited to these two anymore. Because now it is evident that internet is the most influential medium for connecting people.

Via the medium of internet chatting people all across the globe get a chance to know anonymous people and henceforth expand their social circle grow bigger, irrespective of the inhibitions. It provides the perfect medium for fantasy and yet privacy can be maintained to a great deal. Alone at the computer, one can log on to a chat room and instantly become anyone one (or others) want. Some of us are looking for love, and others seek friendships or maybe just a cyber “one-night stand.” While these chat rooms may remain a mystery to many. “Recently it is found through a research that its users spent 19 percent of their time in on-line chat rooms”.

According to a recent research, there are 107 million people who use the Internet worldwide; at least 40 million to 50 million of them use chat. Most of the households now have Internet facility and more percentage of people among them is engaged to chat rooms. However it is not the number of people that is impressive, the real issue here is the unique type of communication that occurs in these electronic agoras.  In chat rooms individuals can engage free, unregulated conversation about any topic they choose. Such a combination of attributes is unique for a conversational ground, and promises to provide users with opportunities unimaginable at any other point in human history.

First and possibly foremost, chat rooms are anonymous.  People have no face to face interaction with the person to whom they are engaged in chatting and hence they cannot be held accountable for any of our act, while living in a city among people, where they have a physical presence they can be held more immediately accountable for any act than a similar act occurred in a chat room.  One can drop out of a chat room and effectively cease to exist for other chat room members far more easily than one can disappear from a public place. This phenomenon is what challenges the very fundamentals of spatial constraints and could be perceived as something that is larger than life.

Many actual experts claim that by providing for “speech split off from visual co-presence,” But now we can see certain chat channels in which apart from chat we also can have a visual display through web cam or through display picture. Many chat rooms like msn, yahoo, and mirc may also provide certain mode of information. By talking to anonymous persons one may have an increase of information on certain topics, this provides a true mode of knowledge. Anyone in a chat room can claim to be a well-known sociologist or a very famous person to impress others, which would not be same in face-to-face interaction.

We know nothing about the other individuals except what they choose to tell us in their written statements.  Therefore, the most important criterion by which we judge each other in Internet chat is one’s mind rather than appearance, race, accent, etc. Although in human societies the adverse effects of anything on any level does have its repercussions, that is the same case with the chat rooms and the process of chatting which has seen its share of abuses. Youngsters waste their time over this activity which should have been used for staying in touch with the loved ones, necessary communication and recreational activity when required only. On the contrary it has been a major source of distraction and has been turned into an absolute game of sorts. Apart from this chatting in general and chat rooms have been used by certain individuals for purposes such as luring particularly youngsters and women, with the motive of physical abuse and fraud. Innumerable criminal cases have been filed to date that deal with the afore-mentioned issue.

This anonymity supplied by lack of common social indication is most significant in that it promotes free online behavior. Anonymous chat rooms Individuals realize that they can speak their minds with impunity because there is very little chance of anyone ever linking them with their statements.  While this can lead to inflammatory statements, it also means that online discussions can behave and speak in ways that they desire but are unable to in Face to face interactions because that would put their professional and personal statuses at risk.  In Internet chat rooms many may hear us and be influenced by our comments, but no one can attribute our statements to us as we exist when offline.  Internet chatters may therefore speak more openly and bluntly than they would in face-to-face conversation.

      Just as important as anonymity is the fact that Internet chat rooms are not bound by geographic considerations. Most fascinating about intercultural communication over the Internet is the fact that if no one asks the locations of other chatters, that information will not be known! The discussions are free to interact and evaluate the thoughts of others without perceiving the situation as primarily intercultural. The freedom of expression, generated by anonymity and the broadening of people’s communicative horizons, leads to a more important development in the nature of human social life. The moderators on various chat rooms do have the liberty to chuck a user out in case any healthy debate turns offensive or cross the limits of decency.   Internet communication and “electronic media” generally “may create new social environments that reshape behavior in ways that go beyond the specific products delivered.  By altering the nature and limits of social situations, electronic media creates for us new events and new behaviors.