ChatRoulette.com

So the newest craze on the interwebs is ChatRoulette.com and of course as a connoisseur of anything internet/porn I just had to check it out and report back to the TOR readership. This combines two things that Americans love: anonymous voyeurism and the internet, if you like speed-dating and chat rooms this is for you.


The concept is pretty simple: a ton of people with webcams get randomly paired up together and hilarity ensues. The website is just two webcam boxes: one for you and one for your random guest, a chat box and some reported 50,000 users.

Like an unexpected house-guest they drop in quickly but unlike said house-guest you can instantly drop them when you're bored. Click NEXT to give yourself another victim and within 10 minutes you will have easily seen 300 people. Of course they can drop you just as quickly and when you are a droopy eyed hung-over Dutchman this seems to happen a LOT.

So those are the good parts, now for the not so good. ChatRoulette is basically an avenue for gay-men voyeurism, in 30 clicks I saw more man-junk than the NYSC locker-room. A dude I know saw some 300lb guy having sex with a stuffed animal and another guy saw a dude popping different color ping-pong balls out of his five-hole.

all in all I while trolling the site I caught 3 naked guys, one dude holding his hands across his neck, one empty chair and about 25 random dudes hoping to catch a topless chick.  I was never paired with anybody for more than 10 seconds as usually I was felt like puking or I got axed by the other party.

If this is the future of Social Networking you may as well cash in your chips and go home because there is really nothing to see. I think there has to be some pleasure in this and maybe this is where it’s all going in the future with people trading in their real-lives for their second-lives but this thing is beyond bizarre.

I know Twitter sucks but on this thing you can catch a guy sucking another dude's twitter so it's got about as much chance of becoming ingrained into the real social-fiber of this country as rifle porn.