Chatroulette, Next wave in social?

Today I tried http://www.chatroulette.com for a while. I tried before, but then the service was down. Monday evening at the upload event (an event putting webfilms on the screen: subject webcams) we chatrouletted with a filmhouse full of people. Today i wanted to try the intimate 1- on - 1 version.

It’s actually really fun to do. Got nexted à lot. Found many bare bodies, but the real sticky bit of it is, you don’t want to stop doing it. You keep on being curious for your next ‘bait’. Sure.. It’s exhibisionostic, maybe scary. But did we not have that feeling when we where first on twitter, just a little bit.. Being over-exposed? Well chatroulette takes that even a step further.

The contacts you make are split-second flirts. Judged by your looks instantly.., no safeguard there. Nexted by the second..

But really really intriguing and very sticky..

It’s a very different paradigm of social interaction compared to twitter, Facebook etc.. I will definitely explore this more.. So.. see you on chatroulette!

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