http://omegle.com/Omegle was introduced to me by my friend, who learned about it from a bunch of blogs or something. It's really fun and a great time sink.
Basically what it is, is a site where you start a chat without a screen name or a password or registering or anything (you're designated as You and the other person is designated as Stranger), and the site sets you up with a completely random person. You can talk about anything, and either participant can end the chat whenever they like. I've talked to people for five minutes, or for an hour and a half.
People from places like China, Australia, the U.S., and Brazil (there are a lot of Brazilians and none of them can spell very well) all use the site, and it's pretty fun. I've asked people for advice, I've had completely normal talks about jobs and vacations, and of course I've talked with plenty of trolls. The urge to lie is pretty great, and it's so easy and no one will know except you, so that's a fun alternative (I've never told the TRUTH but I've said things close enough to the truth so that it doesn't matter).
My friends and I have got some great moments out of this thing, with funny reactions from people and stuff like that. There's only on average about 4,000 people using it (when I started a week or two ago it was about 3,000) so it's not some huge mainstream thing yet.
I don't want to sound like I'm selling the site, although I guess I kind of am, but try it!
Also let's talk about our omegle experiences here! I'll start.
Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: say hi to my friends for me
Stranger: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has logged a record of this chat along with the IP addresses of the participants due to violation of United States federal law. VIOLATION: Solicitation of a minor. IMPORTANT: If you believe this chat to be logged in error, please state your reasons to the F.B.I. Monitoring agent observing this chat and quote reference number 3744956127. Failure to do so within the next 2 minutes will result in your IP address being entered in our criminal database and prosecution. Your IP address has been recorded by the Child Internet Service protection Agency. Please wait while reference code 3744956127 is entered into the database.
Stranger: F.B.I
You: oh god no
You: please
You: i didn't mean to
Stranger: You are arrested.
You: please no
You: please
Stranger: You have 24 hours to find a lawyer.
You: or else what
You: and
You: you're aware, of course
You: impersonating an officer of the law IS an actual federal offense
Stranger: In your country maybe
Stranger: but in mine no.
Stranger: hehehehe
Stranger: but for your luck
You: federal bureau of investigations is only the united states, i'm pretty sure
Stranger: i am from F.B.I.
Stranger: so
You: then why can't you use correct grammar?
Stranger: find a lawyer
Stranger: bye
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
You get plenty of weirdos.
Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: leave
You: just go
You: just get out of here
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
It's pretty fun to be weird yourself, though.
Connecting to server...
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: hey
Stranger: hey from
You: brazil
You: you?
Stranger: okay cool
Stranger: sweden
You: what the fuck is up with swedish fish
You: seriously i want to know
Stranger: what do you mean with that
You: fuck you man
You have disconnected.
Usually when you say you're from Brazil, people just leave. Brazilians got a bad rep on omegle!
Anyways you guys should check it out, it can take five minutes or hours and hours, and it's pretty fun and easy and everything. Tell your stories!
