Public chat rooms are the safest place for the exploiters to spoil teenagers. These chat rooms have become very popular all over the world. It has also been observed that these chat rooms always see heavy traffic and it becomes difficult for the operators and MSN management to control the lewd subjects and ratings.

"This announcement is a very positive step forward and will help close a major supply line for sex abusers who go to great lengths to gain access to innocent children by grooming them on the internet." said Chris Atkinson, net safety expert, NSPCC.

"All MSN is doing is sending chat room users underground. MSN's one million plus chat room users are not going to stop using chat," said a Freeserve spokesperson.

It is a good decision that MSN has taken to close chat rooms. They are already providing a good service with MSN messenger that is safe and secure. It is a private chat zone which means users can add only those people they know. So there is no interference of unknown people or strangers and also privacy is being maintained.

Other chat rooms should also terminate their process as public chat rooms turn to be harmful and dangerous with virus attacks taking place and moderators failing to supervise them. We must take concern about the society and then think of business.

Agreed Imrul Kayes Chowdhury Ashish, operator, BDFriends.org and director of DataBangla: "The basic idea of internet communications is to share cultures and ideas. And anything that threatens the free space of interaction and simulations should be got rid of. Adult contents and porn hunting should no way be allowed anymore to leave a scar on your children's tender minds."

Towfik Elahi Newaz did not. "It's a ploy of MSN to avoid the inevitable that would have faced it unless they called it quits now. What about hundreds of thousands of x-rated sites and other chat communities such as Yahoo!, ICQ, Paltalk can be accessed to pursue the same elicit ends."