What are disadvantages of instant messaging?

Answer 1

You may meet people that may not have good intentions, and may cause harm to you. Especially for children, they may be lured and be cheated.

1. The major disadvantage of chat rooms is that the participants need to schedule to meet at a particular time. As with any other meeting, this may be inconvenient, and may take much administration to achieve with busy people.
2. At present, not many regular public chat rooms have been established for educational purposes.
3. While public chat rooms for the purpose of school education are few, there are many (the great majority, and those most easily accessible, by all appearances) which are devoted to sexually explicit discussions of a kind that is most unsuitable for most school children. It is rumoured that some persons with a taste for sexual abuse of children have used chat rooms to make contact with child victims.

Answer 2

=· Security risks:- ==1. message interception==2. virus via file transfer==· costs money==· needs a computer and internet connection==· can be distractive during work=

Answer 3

Once the message has been sent to someone, it cannot be retrieved. it can be deleted off the sender's account, but it cannot be deleted off the reciever's account, unless they delete it.