Chatroulette.com – This new social network spins the internet wheel wild
Chatroulette.com – This new social network spins the internet wheel wild
There’s a new site that recently popped up on the internet. It’s turning into the newest overnight social network sensation for the web.
Launched in November 2009 as the brain child of 17-year-old Moscow, Russia, high school student, Andrey Ternovskiy, this site has been wildly gaining world wide popularity and users.
Chatroulette.com attempts to randomly pair up total strangers for a web based video conversation. Visitors are matched at random and then start their video and text chat session. Either side of the conversation can opt to cancel the session at any time and it’s a very frequent event that sessions last less than seconds. An attached video cam on your PC is required before you can connect to the site.
The Chatroulette.com site uses the Adobe Systems Flash Player network technology referred to as Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP). This protocol drastically reduces the need for any server intervention as it allows internet users to communicate in real time, using video and audio data, directly to each other without needing to go through a network server. RTMFP was originally developed by Amicima which was later acquired by Adobe.
Currently Chatroulette is estimated to have well over a half million users each day with 25 thousand and upwards on line at any one time.
I tested the site and found it to be incredibly interesting. You never know who you’re going to be randomly paired up with. In session I was talking to someone in France, in another to a couple of college guys in Germany sitting back drinking a couple beers in the evening.
Parents, however, should take warning and issue care regarding this site. Like many other social networks you have a very wide variety of people using it at any one time. From the time I was sampling it, I saw everything from the German guys to puppets and even some folks doing their best to increase their own personal sexual pleasure, by themselves. So, consider yourself warned. It’s a wild, wild web out there!
But, if you’re curious and keep your internet caution alerts active, this site is proving to be a lot of fun for people to meet total strangers anywhere in the world and have a conversation. What you talk about and where you take the conversation is totally up to you. Currently, use of this service is free with incredibly little interruptions from distracting sources like adverts.
I’m Don Rima, and that’s the way I saw it, From Where I Stand.
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