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Activity TwoActivity TwoSome Facts about Cyberspace

ICQ—The World’s Largest Chat room System

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Activity OneActivity One

ICQ—The World’s Largest Chat room System

IICCQQ??

It stands for the meaning of “I Seek You.”

It provides innovative peer-to-peer(P2P) communication channels, in a straight- forward, easy, and simple

manner.

1. How many users register in ICQ?

Over 150 million.

2. How much time do users spend on ICQ every day?

ICQ users are connected to ICQ over 4 hours each day on average.

Make a Guess!

More Fast Facts

# About 800 million ICQ messages are sent and received every day.

# ICQ is available in 18 languages.

# 70% of ICQ users reside outside of the US, in over 243 countries.

Who created ICQ?

ICQ was created by 4 young Israeli

(pronunciation:  iz'reylee) avid

computer users, aged from 24 to 27.

Photo source: www.bricklin.com/albums/ pcforum2001/faces.htm

Yair Goldfinger (26, Chief Technology Officer. ) He is the chief creator of ICQ.

They founded a computer company named Mirabilis. The first version of the ICQ product was deployed over the Internet in November 1996.

Photo source: www.bricklin.com/albums/ pcforum2001/faces.htm

Who created ICQ?

What can users do in the ICQ world? 1. Join a chat room.

2. Search an already-known friend. 3. Play games with key pals.4. Create a chat room of one’s own.5. Create one’s own interest list.6. Have interpersonal chat with people with similar interests.

Photo source:http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/view/e_spkr/904

Enjoy yourselfin the ICQ world!

Common Chat rooms* Movies & TV* Games* Money & Business* Romance* Students* Art & Culture* Computer & Internet….

Which chat room do you like to join?

Choose one and tell your classmates why.

How to log in a chat room?

Step One

Type a nickname you like and then click on

the OK bottom.

Chat room Talk

Talks in chat rooms are usually casual,

informal and ill meaning-oriented.

Here you type in your conversation and click the “send” bottom on the right.

How to find a friend on ICQ?

Fill in at least one information and then click the “Search Now” bottom.

Search Results

Here you can find your friends or people from all

over the world to chat with.

Share Your Ideas!Share Your Ideas!

• Will you join chat rooms to have a talk with people you’ve never met? Why and why not?

• What advantages may we gain from joining a chat room? How about the disadvantages?

See useful words about this activity on next page.

Useful Words • Positive:

innovative, amusing, novel, informative, fun, worthwhile, …practice my English, make friends with the whole world, exchange different ideas, appreciate various cultures…

• Negative:dangerous, improper, risky, time-wasting…be annoyed or harassed by obnoxious key pals, leave your studies behind, fall in love with someone unfamiliar …

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Some Facts about Cyberspace

Words derived from cyber• Cyber café• Cyber marketing• Cyber attack (ex. Hacking)• Cyber crime• Cyber class• Cyber cash• Cyber library• Cyber nanny …

Info source: google search, 2004

What What hazardshazards might internet users might internet users encounter in the cyberspace?encounter in the cyberspace?

• Health ThreatHealth Threat

–Getting fat on their bellies and thighs

–Heart diseases

–Headache…

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Cyber Crimes/HazardsCyber Crimes/Hazards

–Hacks, viruses, email spamming (=junk emails)

–Illegal obtaining of personal credit information …

–Illegal copying, distributing movies, music, software, games…

–Drug deals, sex deals …–Easily be misled to pornographic Web

sites.

What can we do about those What can we do about those potential cyber hazards?potential cyber hazards?

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