Friday, February 19, 2010

The Appeal of Chatroulette

Now I am a huge digital enthusiast, I love twitter, flickr, facebook and youtube, but I am not exactly sure about how I feel about chatroulette.

To me it just seems like a modern day chat room. Remember those things they had through AOL, where you could meet random people and type to them and most of the time they would end up being creepy forty year old married men. Now with chatroulette you are not only typing to them but seeing them and in all the wrong contexts.

So I guess what I don't understand is where is the appeal? Why would you sit in front of your computer screen and put yourself in those types of situations?

The one plus that I can see is the chance of running into someone famous. But then again how can you tell if that's really them?

Although it may sound like I am judging I am really not. I just want to know why people like it? I used to think twitter was stupid and now look at me, I tweet about three times a day. So please leave comments and let me know why you do or do not like chatroulette. I am open to anything, so who knows maybe one day I will try it out.

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