Thursday, November 27, 2008

Mediatization for the Youth

Mediatization for the Youth
(Speaker- Fr. Christian Buenafe)

Chatting is an informal talk done in the computer connected to an Internet. We can communicate to other people through chatting. This can makes us busy, meet new friends, chat with relatives abroad, helps us to relax, improves our interpersonal skills, get advice from others and it is also cheaper. It makes us busy during our leisure time because even we are resting and relaxing we do chatting that could keeps us busy. We can even meet new friends not only here in the Philippines but maybe from other countries. People also who have relatives abroad, chatting is a type of communication that will make them feel contented since they can already see each other in the camera and have enough time to communicate with their love ones in a cheaper cost. Chatting will improve our interpersonal skills because we are not only communicating to the Filipinos but also to foreigners that could enhance our language, self-confidence and communication skill. Through chatting also we can get an advice to our problems, lifestyles and even education aspect from different people who are knowledgeable and more experienced enough.

There are many things that chatting can give and help us but if there are advantages there are also disadvantages. The disadvantage of chatting is sexual exploration especially among the youth are rampant. This is one of the reasons that cyber sex is common to our nation today even here in our region because it provides safer and faster access to pornographic materials. This kind of influence may lead the youth to a more complicated problem due to their curiosity without thinking the consequences of their actions. All we have to do is use this type of communication as well as the technology wisely for the betterment of our life and society not for pleasure that will lead to worst ideas.

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