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 information and understanding. Recently, after much deliberation I thought I’d check out what the world of Chat Rooms is like. People talk to each other by text, 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 many people with similar interests get to understand each other, and share their perspectives on various aspects of life. These are nice , much cheaper than telephones, and multiple, random all the people can chat to one another simultaneously.

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

I went to a chat room about religion, and then to one about tattoos and it seemed like the same all the people we are talking. Most of the conversation didn’t even touch the supposed subject matter. It was definitely a disenchanting knowledge 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 great that bored all the people in our technological society have others to talk to. It means depressed adolescents might 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 may 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 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 contruct 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 may invent many dazzling things, but it looks like we’re missing out on the nice truth: that we ourselves are part of, and made of something grand in itself: Life. (Existence!)