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MSN closing chatrooms

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by beermonster

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MSN in the UK has announced it is to close all of it's chatrooms from the 14th October. The reason given ? -

"This change is intended to help protect MSN users from unsolicited information such as spam and to better protect children from inappropriate communication online"

Speaking as a father of 4 (5 in January) that sounds like bull to me. I'm aware there have been some high profile cases of children being approached via the net - sometimes with shocking consequences, but has anyone actually seen any figures to show that my children are any more in danger from chat rooms than playing in the local park? Surely the key in both scenarios is how well they are supervised and taught about the potential dangers? It just seems like a major over reaction to me (especially considering the MSN users are simply go elsewhere anyway)and I can't help wondering if there isn't something more behind it, considering we're talking Microsoft here probably something financial (IE maybe the chat service costs a lot to run and generates little revenue so heres a chance to get rid of it), - what do you think?

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by pkchukiss

I must say I can't argue with them if they want to withdraw any services. They are the ones offering it, and there is nothing we can do if they decide to stop the service, unless it were part of a contract of sorts, which would be a totally different story...

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