Chat...You Are Missed!

Chat…You Are Missed!

                 Frederika Menezes

I have always loved to chat – it’s a human thing! Whether face to face or online or over the phone, a chat can brighten one’s spirit sometimes – only sometimes! The different points of view on certain aspects in life being exchanged, discussing favorite books and television shows, movies, talking about friends with friends – no not gossip but rather sharing one another’s friends’ names and what is most loved about the person. Maybe even introduce the friend you chat about to your chat friend! 

I remember when we first got a telephone at home – it was a marvel! It was bright red and had a dial that I would simply love to turn by inserting my finger in the right holes and numbers. How many happy moments were spent on the telephone just dialing and saying hi when my friends picked up their phones!
Simple happy times when chatting meant just that, ‘chatting!’

Today, the word ‘chat’ has lost its innocence! Be it on the telephones or on cell phones or online…only certain few folk who have sensible brains and morals still know how to actually ‘chat.’ The others use this simple word to express animalistic desires and show their daftness!

Poor ‘chat’ where has your innocence gone?

What’s different today that the sex addict, shameless pervert and brainless git use ‘chat’ to fulfill their sick desires? The answer is simply: life is too busy, the world a whirlwind and coming down to it all, easy access to chat-rooms online, chats on cell phones is satisfaction on the go with no gratification only more addiction!

One only has to enter a free chat-room online and invariably one gets hit with ‘hey cute guyzzzzz – horny girl here…pm me’ or ‘horny here…plz someone chat with me…I have my webcam ready’ and the kind of messages scrolling across, up and down your screen oh and yeah they are usually followed by a link to view webcams. Assault to the mind! Insult to the decent user of the chat-room who simply wants to have a nice ‘chat’ not view anyone’s webcam, not see any users sleaziness and definitely not talk dirty and get headaches reading sex driven messages.

Oh chat how I pity you!

One day, I deliberately logged into a free chat-room and it felt like reading the dirtiest magazine! I figured that one had to arm oneself with every moral fiber, every brain cell, every intelligent retort just to hold the porn addicts, brainless gits and shameless perverts at bay.

I thought to myself – a new age Count Dracula that corrupts the innocence of ‘chat’ and destroys values!

Of course there are times when one does get sensible people in these chat-rooms but it is rare. And when such people do make contact, 95% of them lack the knowledge of plain interactive skills but many of these are willing to learn chat skills and change, and are tolerable, harmless.

Bottom line is: Chat has lost much innocence and charm it once had. I write this to say how sad I feel that ‘chat’ is no longer the free thing it used to be – now it is a servant, a slave to perversity!

Chat, your innocent existence is missed dearly!