Friday, 23 January 2009

Email and Chatrooms communication

New relationships can begin on online chat rooms that are pacifically designed for dating. “email, chatrooms” etc are used for “initiation and development of close personal relationships,” (Stafford, 2005) Sometimes these online relationships can turn into long loving relationships. These sites are helpful in that people find it much more easier and comfortable with one to one interaction over the Internet than that first interaction with a physical person which can often be daunting. But people who use these new media forms often “manipulate to presents positive picture of the self” (Stafford, 2005) and so the communication isn’t trustworthy or reality.

1 comment:

  1. i think these chatrooms for specific things are really good. i saw a programme about these two people that are asexual (neither are interested in sex), and they met in this chat room. I was thinking that if they never had the internet, they would never have met...and even if they DID meet, it would be hard to drop it into conversation, so they might never have got together!
    Random but thought id mention it :P xx

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