Pros and Cons to Cummunicating Online

There are many reasons why comunicating on the internet could be both bad and good. Communicating on the internet by using communication systems, like AiM, E-mail and chat rooms to stay in touch with friends or family. This way is much easier then writing a letter and waiting days from a response to your letter. The communication over the internet is faster then writing your average letter and you also don't have to worry about the expence of stamps. Although communicating over the internet is a fast, easy, cheap way to stay in touch there are also many dangers to this way of communication. The cons to this type of communication is that although most people feel that they are protected from the dangers of the internet they really aren't. Even when you feel that you are just having a communication with one of your friends in a chat room, you don't even know if its really them if you are communicating for the first time. People could hide their identity behind a screen name, while you believe that your talking to one of your friends. Or someone else could enter the chat room and listen to your conversation without you even knowing. When you are talking on AiM someone could just start talking to you and act like your best friend because you just don't know what kind of person your talking to. Communicating through e-mail is still even dangerous. You could get ramdom messages with viruses that could take away precious or personal information. With all communication this is possible, but it is more likly to happen through e-mail. With screen names a person could make a very small change that makes it look like your talking to the same person. Finally, Communicating through the internet could be both good and bad, but if you choose to communicate through the internet just use caustion and make sure you know who you are talking to.