Social networking sites have been appearing over the internet for many years now, with people hopping from one bandwagon to another, in order to chat, post up images and videos and just generally let everyone know how they are doing. We have seen the rise of Bebo, Myspace and Facebook, which have dominated the way in which people interact with each other. But what these wesites allow, is for you as a person to keep up to date with your friends, or those people you once knew but are never going to talk to again. With the success of social networking we are now offered new ways to make friends.
Chat roulette is a site in which you opt to play the titular game, but with the added spin of your going to be chatting to a random stranger, generally an unwritten rule is you use a web cam to show the people out there what you look like. You can shuffle around the potential online candidates just be clicking ‘next’, giving you endless opportunities to meet and greet new people from around the world. There maybe language barriers in some cases, but for that you just wait to find someone who shares the same language as you, and so the journey beings, ‘the world is your oyster’…well the online world anyway, with plenty of online candidates you’re just a click away from meeting a random person.
So with the webcam primed, and the finger on the next button its time to get playing. As you cycle through the potential strangers, what you will soon discover, is that its no longer social interaction, the realms of bizarreness and human depravity seep through into world of interaction, but I guess its no longer surprising as the internet itself is packed full of the weird and wonderful. Now these are just some of my conclusions, but what you can find is flashers (showing naked body) this comes in the form of chronic masturbaters, to people showing the odd naked body part (boob, bottom or penis), leading to questions is this what social communication will eventually lead to, no longer using our voices to discuss current events. But flashing in hope of getting a response.
Don’t worry the site is not packed full of these sorts of people, this only just a select few, I guess the rest, sit at their computer cycling through hoping to find the one normal person, while others sit in packs, taunting each other till one group decides to leave. So a site based around social interaction, is now seen as anti-social, a way of not talking to someone, a way to abuse someone, without suffering the consequences and to top it off a way of pleasuring oneself without the need to communicate.
So while you sit at your computer and think its time to meet some people just remember that’s why you’ve got facebook, or whatever site you use to keep your friends on close call. Chat roulette is a way of social suicide, suggesting you can’t leave the house and go and socialise. The internet becomes an easy way out, a social barrier which no-one can break and you can hide behind your computer screen pretending to be someone your not, or chat to someone you may never meet. So while thinking about Chat roulette, remember you can make more friends locally, and if you are tempted by this, Russian Roulette is a lot easier, just make sure you load all the barrels, its quicker, easier and a lot less painful than sitting through Chat Roulette.
