Wednesday, September 24, 2003

USATODAY.com - Spammers, pedophiles force Microsoft to quit chat

I'm sitting here reading this article on MSN shutting down their chatrooms and towards the bottom I see this: "I think chat rooms function in the way a youth club functioned for us back in the '60s," said Terri Dowty, a policy advisor for watchdog group The Children's Rights Alliance for England.

The only difference is, there is no real "interaction". Chatting online doesn't teach kids how to deal with real world events and emotions the inevitably arise when humans are placed in close proximity to one another.

Funny of the day: Laurence just said he is on the “Eat all the meat you can diet… eat all the meat you can get your hands around”

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