Cyber Space

I’m no fan of online chat rooms. Talking with oddly named (and spelled) entities just creeps me out. For all I know, I might be talking to a smelly, old dude from god-knows-where.

Sure, going online serves as an alternative for getting to know “real” people – since obviously you are just too lazy to get off your behind and go into the real world (instead, you head off into the cyber world). You encounter various characters online, characters you are sure would never meet in real life – after all, when can you meet a self-proclaimed exhibitionist, contortionist and an all-out idiot all wrapped into one?

Let’s get real here; there are just too many strange people online (including you?). Not to sound preachy or anything (or god forbid, sound like your mother), the online chat rooms are teeming with frauds and posers – you can practically smell their un-authenticity a cyber-mile away.

Plus, there are too many perverted people online. As if sexually driven people in the real world weren’t enough, you get more of these sick people online. These electronic, pixilated rooms are no longer safe from our so-called innocent eyes.

Before you know it, as you enter some nondescript chat room, you are given countless “hot offers” which you apparently can’t refuse. Hopefully, you are sane enough that you refuse the aforementioned ‘hot offer’ and boldly declare that his/her offer isn’t appealing all, but instead is as perverted as the sun is hot.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that there are some decent people online. For all I know, there are decent people out there who like me, have nothing better to do with their lives but prowl around the internet and interact with other people - regardless of “what” or “who” they are.

It would be stupid for me to preach about not giving away contact information since I assume, we are all educated enough (and hopefully, right in the head) to know not to give out any kind of contact information. But then again, we give out our e-mail add to complete strangers online just for them to add us on Friendster – since we are desperate to increase our friends count.

I’ve grown tired of chat rooms after receiving one too many marriage proposals, group orgies invites and other unmentionables. I for one do not want to chat with some random dude named “Hot_stuffz_23” – because, for all I know, besides from being illiterate and utterly whack in the head, this dude is without a doubt some pathetic old dude going online in his empty, little house with his dusty Star Treck collection.

And besides, if you spend too much of your time talking to faceless people, that means only one thing – you need a life.