Chatroulette. Sending cold shivers up your spine? Should do. There you are, sat at the screen, all spotty, hairy, greasy or whatever and on goes the web cam and wham - a total stranger strikes up bright conversation. Stuff of nightmares! Is there no where to hide in this wide, wide world?
Slope to the corner shop in your slippers and there's sure to be a camera scanning every move. Pick your nose in the car and there it is, up on screen, for someone to mock.
Not everyone has a web-cam. I don't. For reasons, see above. But a Russian teenager, 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy, is dead keen. So much so that he invented Chatroulette and now mega-millionaires are fighting to buy it from him. Next thing to Facebook, they say. Not wrong either. Gawd, you'd have to glam up just to send an email. All that bluffing on Match.com will be dead in the dust.
Chatroulette was only launched in November and now has 10 million visitors a month. Most stay a few seconds before getting bored and zooming in on someone else. Nice. All that tarting up trauma for zilch. Never mind the weirdos doing all sorts of unmentionables on camera....yuk!
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