According to this article, Yahoo are going to close down their chat rooms because of adults luring kids into meetings with them. That sucks! I love Yahoo chat, I have a lot of memories in there and I really don’t want to see them go. I didn’t much care when MSN let theres go, I was a Yahoo user anyway. Now though, this is annoying me.
The whole, adults luring children into meetings thing is BS anyway. Most people seemed shocked when they hear this is going on. Hey, welcome to the real world! Governments have been running ads to promote awareness of this for years. You know what the real solution is – teach your kids to be safe online.
Did promoting absentance stop teenage pregnancy in Texas? No, it has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the US or something stupid. This is the same thing. You might be able to close the mainstream chatrooms down but you won’t close the small websites and the IRC networks down. It’s not going to happen.
I hope when kids are still getting abused five years down the line, MSN and Yahoo will re-open their chat rooms. That said, Yahoo haven’t mentioned it on the chat site nor have they put out a press release so I’m not sure what’s going on at the moment.
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