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Chatroulette.com is a site that I came across the other night. The site was launched last November by Andrew Ternovskiy, a 17-year old high school student from Moscow. According to Wikipedia the website gained popularity in February after being featured on “Good Morning America”, The New York Times and New York Magazine and at the moment the sites receiving over 500,000 hits per-day. For such a new site, that is a lot of hits.

Chatroulette is a website that allows you to anonymously have video/voice/text chats with anyone around the world. No user accounts, No names, just two windows one showing your webcam, another showing the strangers webcam and the most basic text functionality. You click Start and away you go, connecting to a random stranger on the site, and at anytime you or the stranger can click next and skip to the next stranger.

I looked around the site for a while, having several random conversations with anyone and everyone that would talk with out clicking next on me. I had the webcam disabled, and its obvious that half the users are only visiting for the sexual voyagers who are there in force. With every 5 or so random strangers being some dude with his dick out going to town for the camera. Thank god there is a next button! Occasionally you see a stuffed animal, a note from a 14 year old asking chicks to show her boobs and very rarely you will find some one that just wants to chat with some one new.

If you ever want to waste a bit of time, check the site out. Http://Chatroulette.com but be warned, the site is Not Safe For Work / School as the content is unpredictable and uncontrollable. I just keep your bits in your pants ok?

Below are some screencaps from the site. You can see more at Buzzfeed.com

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/30-more-great-chat-roulette-screenshots