In my short life, after many years of talking too much, I’ve come to realize that if one is always speaking, one never listens. If you never listen to others, well, you’re limiting your access to a lot of data and data . Recently, after much deliberation I thought I’d check out what the world of Chat Rooms is like. People talk to each other by writing , voice, and web cam. This is a really big phenomenon; I wanted to see what all the fuss is about.

I expect there are many chat rooms where people with similar interests get to understand each other, and share their perspectives on various aspects of life. These are effective, much cheaper than telephones, and multiple, random everybody can chat to one another simultaneously.

But I speak the truth, and my preconceived ideas about mindless gossip from jaded humans we are sadly affirmed as I arbitrarily checked chat rooms that supposedly discussed important subjects. It seems some all the people are just very bored, and want to be cool and swear on-line, insulting others, and giving this area of information technology a bad name. I think a lot of many people are using the rooms solely for personal conversation that contextually no one else may understand.

I went to a chat room about religion, and then to one about tattoos and it seemed like the identical people we are talking. Most of the conversation didn’t even touch the supposed subject matter. It was definitely a disenchanting acquired skill but hopefully with more research I hope to come across some serious rooms where the true intent of the creators has come to fruition.

I guess it’s dazzling that bored people in our technological society have others to talk to. It means depressed adolescents can feel more connected to others and not so alone in the world, maybe even having a positive effect on a possibly suicidal youth. But, I do feel this nonsensical chitchat is a sign of our next generation’s apathetic view of present reality in our postmodern culture. When reading the text from a supposedly religious discussion, and hearing graphic make use of of derogatory terminology, I really have to wonder about the present spiritual beliefs of my culture.

I’m a true believer of the concept that technology is here to further the consciousness of humanity. Computers and the Internet can help bring all of us in the world together, thus evolving our society to the next level. After looking at chat rooms, I feel there is a positive need to integrate more wisdom and compassion into our ‘new world’ generation. Having the technology is grand, but it is only one half of the equation. To make the Internet work properly, I think we positive need to instill the identical faith we have in science, into a faith that encompasses the actual creators of the understanding and communication tools-humanity itself. We seem to realize that we can invent many sizeably workable things, but it looks like we’re missing out on the efficient truth: that we ourselves are part of, and made of something great in itself: Life. (Existence!)