Pros and Cons to Communicating Online

Online Communication is a very important way of communicating during this age. There are so many ways to communicate via the internet. Some of these options are e-mail, chat rooms, blogs, instant messaging. The e-mail is one of the first forms of communication found on the internet. In my opinion E-mails are also one of the most efficient forms of communication. E-mails are great as they sent messages instantly and you even have your own personalized inbox page. E-mail is also more organized then other forms of communication as you can create and delete folders to make your inbox more controlled. The bad thing about e-mail is that you when you send a message to a person you do not always get it back immediately as the other person you are sending the e-mail to also has to be on. Instant messaging is an additional way of communicating on the internet. Instant messaging entail two people with two made up names and they talk exchanging messages back and forth. The good thing about instant messaging is that there is a conversation between to people and the messages are sent fast. The bad thing about IM is that you cannot save messages as once you exit out of an IM then all the messages are deleted. Another form of communication involved with the internet is chatrooms. A chatroom is like instant messaging but it has more than to people involved in conversation. Since more people can be at the conversation there can be a lot more opinions on a topic. The bad thing about chatrooms is that there are more people involved with a conversation so more people can find out personal things about you and you might not even know them. The last way of communicating online is by using blog. This way of communication is very useful when you need to have an answer to a question or you have an opinion. Once you type the question or your opinion people respond to your comment with their own ideas. These comments give more opinion in your answer so you don’t always have a one-sided answer. Blogs are excellent when you need opinion and when your unsure about something. The down side on blogs is that anyone can see what you say in them and anyone can comment so people may leave rude comments. Blogs are not as secure as e-mail and other ways of communicating on the internet. All these ways of communicating over the internet may seem convenient but are not as safe as talking to people in person.