How safe are chat rooms

No person can guarantee the absolute safety of any internet site at this time. Anyone can manage to get into any chat room with enough motivation and a little skill. What constitutes the best 'safety system' for any chat room in the world is the knowledge, wits and if necessary supervision of the individual user. When things go really wrong in chat room settings, it is because information was shared with the wrong person naively, ignorantly, or because security/privacy systems were not in place.

You enter a chat room, start up a conversation with someone, and before you know it, you have made a new friend. You need to remember that people can pretend to be whoever they want to be online. You may meet someone online who seems sympathetic and understanding, which gives you advice and seems to be your friend.

You can be talking to someone who calls herself Suzy and claims she is 10 years old, who is really a 40-year-old male who is looking to exploit you.

Chatting is a very popular activity for young people, especially teenagers, but it is also probably the most dangerous area on the Internet where they are most likely to get into trouble.

There are dozens of means of chatting on the Internet, but no matter how you chat, keep in mind that the Internet is really anonymous. A friendly stranger in a chat room is still a stranger and not an ideal person for you to trust with your phone number or other personal information.

Some chat rooms are just open conversations with no moderation where everyone has a pretty much equal role; some are moderated by a "leader" who leads the discussion and participants; while others have chaperons or monitors who are responsible for maintaining order and assess what people write before anyone else gets to see it. The monitor can reprimand or even kick someone out of the room who is acting in an inappropriate manner, but he or she can't, however, prevent teens from going off to a private chat area with a person who might do harm to them or put them in danger.  I think that chat rooms are not good because they are very dangerous and can and may harm people.