Here's a bizarre website..
http://chatroulette.com/
as the name suggests, you are randomly given another user with whom to "chat", meaning full blown video call type interaction. Now the reason I've written "chat" in adverted commas is because I just gave this what I feel was a fair chance. To my dismay, Not one (out of about 12 attempts) person actually interacted with me. A few videos of some teen age looking guys appeared for a split second to only disappear where the interface notifys me that the other user has disconnected. Any way I won't tell you ALL the details about it, I think just for scientific research you should try it yoursleves; be brave and use the web cam (I did).
Oh and please leave a comment here, and share your findings; I'm intrigued to know if it was personal.
Group 2, I think this will be particularly interesting for you :)
Theo
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
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Very cool. I think this illustrates nicely the way we might socialize through the web, but as with all new things there are issues on how to relate to this. I got some chat interaction with two teenage girls, so not very intelligent, and they lost their interest in me after finding out my age. :) The rest of the stuff I got doesn't hopefully interest anyone. So it seems that this kind of openness is hard to relate to and is easily taken to the extreme before a good way to use it is found.
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