Way back in msn chat days I could hold a grudge for years.  Today I prefer to leave the past in the past and not listen to mean rumors.  How a chatters earns money or what choices they make in life is truely not my concern.  Chat provides a clean slate for us all and clean it should remain.  Chat is about living in the moment and sharing ones' daily activities or like Gor living a fantascy.  Chat was for me at first a way to avoid the real world drama.  Then I began learning about other countries and cultures.   Then I just found chat relaxing.  Still a way to avoid real life.  I think it is a good thing.