Comments on: “Talk to Strangers:” Is the New Chat Craze Dangerous for Girls?

By: kiranraj

kiranraj — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:20:47 +0000

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By: dustin

dustin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:57:18 +0000

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By: JS

JS — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:43:29 +0000

Your absolutely right, guys don’t like sluts. They want a funny, charming, intelligent girl who is secure in her own body and confident in her actions. They want one of these girls…to marry. As a teenager, who is going to get the most attention from males? The girl with the short mini-skirt that loves to party or the well-rounded one with good grades and sense of self-worth? Social statuses and popularity among teen girls are created, in my mind, behind 4 basic and superficial requirements: 1. looks 2. sense of humor 3. athletics 4. attracts guys. The latter of these 4 is, by far, the most crucial. If you were an awkward, over-weight, non-athletic teen that guys don’t even glance at, do you think you would the “IT” girl among your school? I know it sounds absolutely terrible and just cruel, and I couldn’t agree more, but it is the unfortunate truth. I’ve experienced it too much in my short life time, and unfortunately I have much more to go through. I just hope and pray that someday things will change.

By: carol traynor

carol traynor — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:10:02 +0000

nothing is anonymous online. i can copy a screen shot of any site i visit, pictures, text and all. then i can send it to whoever i want as a jpeg. i can post it to my website. i can email it to my boss. i can put it in photoshop, change names, swap heads, then send it again. we all need to be careful and repeat this message over and over to young people. thanks for this post!

By: linked up: Adoptions, Bulimia, and Chatroulette « Act Your Age

linked up: Adoptions, Bulimia, and Chatroulette « Act Your Age — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:57:09 +0000

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By: 50 something feminist

50 something feminist — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:16:28 +0000

Just reading your blog was unsettling. Reading about chatroulette after yesterday’s study about teen’s use of cell phones (something like 100 texts a day or maybe more) made me think, longingly, of the famous E.M. Forster quote from Howard’s End: “Only connect!” If they are spending so much of their time texting, iming, i-chatting and now “chat rouletting,” what kinds of human connections are they making? They seem very superficial or at least attenuated. I’ve seen some of my kid’s friends’ formspring pages and some of the comments (made by 11 and 12-year-old kids) are mind boggling. Sexist, misogynistic, hateful. I feel like they have too many opportunities to communicate without looking each other in the eyes. As for the possibility of rolling the chat roulette wheel and ending up with some stranger’s genitals staring at me from a computer screen, yuck. This all makes me nostalgic for my teenage years when you could spend an afternoon making out with a boyfriend or girlfriend or just a friend and then you would spend the whole evening talking to your best friend on the phone. Does that even happen anymore?

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:11:24 +0000

Sexual violence issues are running rampid across the United States. Teen Pregnancy is beyond a social crisis. Website like this are demeaning, hurtful and dangerous. What are we teaching our young girls when they believe that being a slut is what every guy is after. We need to educate parents, youth, teachers and the community about the negative effects of sites such as these. I went on there and in 5 seconds I felt horrible about myself and I am 38 years old. The people who create these sites should be ashamed of themselves. Somehow we have to make sites like these illegal!

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:28:54 +0000

What hit me the most about this article was one of the girls that was interviewed said “They pretend to be a person they either wish they could be or someone demeaning, like a ‘slut,’ something they know guys like.” When are these young girls going to realize that guys don’t really like sluts? Girls are so worried about getting boys to like them, but little do they know, in the end a guy does not want a girlfriend who is doing all of these crazy things for any guy that asks. I think that most young girls are looking for a boyfriend and what these sites are doing is allowing young girls to loose thier morals, and they are giving them a false sense of “what guys want”.