Pros and Cons of Communication on the Internet

The internet is now allowing us to talk and communicate in ways that we were not able to fifty years ago. Some of the forms of cmmunication that we have are chat rooms, blogs, e-mails and instant messaging. All these things allow use to communicate faster, but each one has its own pros and cons. The pros to e-mailing are that you can send something to a person in a matter of minutes and as long as you have the right address it can not get confused and put into someone elses "mailbox". The con to e-mail is not everyone has a e-mail address or has excess to the internet 24/7, so they might not be able to answer you right away or in that case ever get to check the message you sent them in an apropriate ammount of time. Instant messaging is also another way of online communication. The pro to this is as long as you are online and do not have an away message you can hold a conversation and get any response back in an instant. The con about instant messaging is that you can never be really sure who you are talking to. People can pretend to be other people if they have that persons log in name and password, and since they you are not physically seeing thatyou are talking to you can not be 100% certain that they arebeing who they actually say they are. Another type of communication is chat rooms. Chat rooms pros are that you can have a whole conversation with more than one friend where you can all contribute to it at the same time. The cons about chat rooms though are that alot of predatotrs tend to go to these. The last type of communication is blogs. The pros about blogs are that you can comment on other peoples things and start conversations. The cons about blogs though are that everyone can see what you are typing unless it is an invitation only blog. All these types of communication allow us to have more than one way to talk to other people