ChatRoulette

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I have not tried this service, but I am pretty curious/horrified at the thought of it -

http://nymag.com/news/media/63663/

I have a colleague in Albania who is like 20 years old. I mentioned ChatRoulette to him and he said, "My friend used it a couple of times. He said the things he often saw were unspeakable." It does not bode well that a guy in a place full of war refugees and corruption considered the images he saw 'unspeakable'. Anyone dared to try it out?

[DoodleJump!]

Reading this article made me decide that I should probably not try it out. I'm a sensitive person.

[buffcoat]

This doesn't seem like my kind of thing.  Lots of noise to signal.

[KickTheBobo]

strangers are scary as it is.

[nec13]

This sounds like a veritable den of iniquity. Much like the rest of the internet.

I think I'll pass.

[Dan in Chicago]

I feel like someone dedicated to spending time on it would end up with some pretty crazy quotes or ideas. That said it's probably not worth that trouble.

[dave from knoxville]

This sounds like a veritable den of iniquity. Much like the rest of the internet.




I'm on the case!

[erechoveraker]

Me and a bunch of friends on another board tried it out one night whatever week it launched a few months back. With supposedly something like 4-5k people online at the time, I ran into my friends at least twice each.

Unspeakable seems a bit over the top. I mean, it was chaos for sure. Porn on loop, guys exposing themselves and other things along that line, but I mean, it was pretty much what I expected. I think 90% of the people were on it for the show, and the rest were 4channers just trying to get a laugh. Oh yeah, and the penises.

One group of teenage girls saw me and typed "Dad?", I nearly cried and never went back.

[Christina]

Oh yeah, and the penises.

I think I've found my new .sig!!!

[crumbum]

I'm definitely too shy to do this. It's one thing to check out the freaks but soon enough someone will want to have a real conversation and I will panic. I can feel the flop sweat starting already.

[Dan B]

This site is insane. I discovered it about a month ago when someone posted it on Facebook. There are a shit load of the weirdest weirdos, but also plenty of people willing to have actually good conversations. One of the most notable good conversations was with this Brazilian girl that my friends and I talked with for about TWO hours. The site got huge recently and now it's mostly evolved into two groups of drunk college students yelling at each other, which is fun in its own way.

[JonFromMaplewood]

The "LICK YOU ELBOW" (sic) line in the article sure made me laugh.

[samir]

It didn't take long but the English broadsheets are covering the phenomena.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/14/chatroulette-sex-voyeurs-website

[Sarah]

Every time I see "ChatRoulette" I pronounce it "chah-roulette" in my head and think maybe it's some kind of feline gambling site.  Possibly with revolvers.

[Andy]

that site gives me the creeps.