I have to admit it, during this long Connecticut winter I've really enjoyed spending Friday nights at home... alone... with my MacBook. In fact, once I set myself up in front of the fireplace with a glass of wine, I find these Friday evenings pretty awesome.
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So there I was last night, alone with my laptop and a glass of Château Pichon-Longueville in front of a blazing fire, catching up on my Google reader. And that's when I reluctantly decided that I needed to try Chatroulette.
Not that I really wanted to, but after reading four stories (1 - 2 - 3 - 4... count them) referencing the random-stranger site... I started thinking it might be time for me to give it a try in the interest of journalistic objectivity.
Described as sinister, salacious, creepy, fun, thrilling and profound... there had to be something in it worth writing about, and even if there wasn't; it was a full blown trending topic and already had its own obscenely funny John Stewart satire ...and apparently the 17-year-old Russian founder is being courted by venture capitalists.
The story that ultimately convinced me however, was the one lifestyle reporter Nicole Baute did for the Toronto Star. Of course it wasn't the web cam creeps of her title, that tempted me... it was the lonely French golf instructor she met as she clicked from one random stranger to the next. He just wanted to talk Baute wrote, and I convinced myself that if I could practice my French and talk about golf it would be pretty awesome. I also figured I could try to get some feedback and opinions on the controversial golf issues of the day like the return of Tiger Woods or the John Daly debacle or the square grooves controversy. Yeah, right. That's what I told myself anyway. And then I clicked to start the game.
(... to be continued) ~ Meanwhile for the uninitiated video above breaks it down really well. It's Chat Roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
A friend of mine stayed on for an hour and not one person talked to him. Maybe because he's a 42 year old, overweight guy with limited conversational skills/ ;)
ReplyDeleteThe John Stewart skit is hilarious! I don't have the courage to try.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. I might just....nah, I won't.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be so fun to mess with when people are over. I couldn't do it alone!
ReplyDeleteGet some more ladies on there Patricia, then I might venture forth.
ReplyDeleteThe John Stewart skit was really funny but I can't believe Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer were allowed to be in it. Just shows how much things have changed.
ReplyDeleteI just tried chatroulette and found it quite boring. There were more girls on it than I thought there would be, but none wanted to talk. Most were with a friend or two and seemed to be there just fooling around and making fun of guys. :(
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