The public/private boundary is shattered and the heart of Chatroulette’s popularity is curiosity and hordes of people to satisfy it. Chatroulette has been described as a Wild West-like frontier; our current legal guarantees for decency are wiped away; our standards for what is gross and shocking “nexted” to the maximum possibility of a webcam. Frequenters of this website must be completely desensitized to obscenity. If there is revolutionary potential in this model of social networking, it’s going to have to get around serious abuses of human freedom.

in short, perhaps ye olde internet was weird and convivial because the people on ye olde internet were weird & convivial.

now it’s just everyone. and given how social networks operate, i wouldn’t be surprised if the social structures of the world are merely being reproduced in the social structures of the internet. just like in the ‘real world’ there are interesting people whom you’d happily engage with randomly but are hard to find, i suppose there are interesting people you’d happily engage with randomly but are hard to find online, because in both cases the uninteresting ones are much more populous than the interesting ones.

in short, if you were a misfit in real life, you’ll now be a misfit on the internet. welcome to progress

with firendly greeting

Raj M.D.

I found delirious screenshots from chatroulette on bestofchatroulette.com
It’s funny =)

you made me laugh today. kids are funny, they have a sense of what a persons heart is like, far better than grown adults. while i realize with my large athletic humanoid body, people will act odd…but i can’t tell you how many times small kids walk up, smile and engage me….most of the time i hear the parent look quizzically to say “who are you?” and then sometimes i see the parent do everythign they can to cover their fear. but to have YOU, with your gigantic physique cause the same effect….that is funny. cheers

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