Topic Proposal: Chatrooms and Their Dangers

Chatrooms pose a serious threat to America’s youth.  As documented in “To Catch a Predator” with Chris Hansen, chatrooms provide an anonymous, relatively comfortable place for people to interact.  Most chatrooms are harmless, but others put unsuspecting children in danger.  Getting a username and joining a chatroom can take only minutes.  Posing as someone other than yourself isn’t exactly hard to do on the internet and predators are only a message away.  This makes it easy for kids to get lured into unfavorable situations.  It is a large problem facing the children of today.  With the availability of computers and an increase in absentee parenting the problem will only grow.