Sunday, August 19, 2012

Reasons I Love ChatRoulette

One of my good friends has recently decided to leave the nest that is her parents house and venture into the independent lifestyle of living alone. A group sleepover was called for, and on the agenda for the night amongst baking cookies, drinking games and exercising poor personal hygiene was the inaugural... Chatroulette.

Everyone should know what Chatroulette is, so I won't bother going into too much detail explaining, but basically it's kind of like speed-dating over live video chat with anyone from anywhere who is on at the same time as you. You are matched with someone, and if anyone on either side doesn't feel like talking to who they are matched with they can press 'F2' which skips that partner and generates a new match. This happens until you find someone you are happy to speak to who is also willing to speak with you.

Chat roulette, contrary to popular belief is so much more than just an online erection gallery.

Sorry, I had to add the image for a thumbnail worthy of cheap clicks. 

Chatroulette on Friday night taught me so many life lessons about the world in which we live, and I would really like to share some of those learnings with you.

We played a game with people we were chatting to, asking them to take their laptop/webcam to the window to show us what was outside. It was incredible seeing where some of these people were. A few memorable ones from the list were a man's balcony overlooking Milan, a French man's suburban backyard, a group of Americans in the military based in South Korea, a British man smoking pot in a legitimate conservatory, a couple of guys out on a fishing boat, and a 16 year old kid from Ohio's backyard.

Of course with any public online (or real life) forum will come young girls seeking affirmation and validation of their worth through strange men, and men both young and old willing to take advantage of these girls' insecurity within themselves, but... believe it or not, once you filter through all the middle-aged and overweight Turkish men, and skim past the 14 year old boys rubbing on their erections through their shorts, there are some really cool and decent people out there.

Though, with every pro comes a con, and on Friday night my soul bled and my heart wept for the future of society when I saw kids (actual children between the ages of 9-14) on Chatroulette.
Judging from the pretty morbid things I saw that night, I could only imagine what these kids were being exposed to and how it would effect their lives - What killed me even more was when we came across a couple of girls no older than 12 mimicking giving blowjobs to their chat partners. I couldn't take it. I wanted so much to protect them from the countless  men out there with questionable intentions, but I was conflicted by seeing them act this way and had to F2 (skip) them because I didn't want to believe what I just saw, and because being charged for pedophilia is not high on my life's to-do list.
Seeing that not only physically hurt my heart, it only reinstated my decision not to bring anyone into this broken world.

This is actually me.

After us girls had our fun with speaking with the charming men out there whose false hopes of us taking our tops off or kissing each other may have lingered for a lot longer than we should have allowed, we agreed on searching for some decent girls for the boys.


Gotta keep trollin', trollin', trollin'.


The thing with chatroulette is, the image/video displayed could be anybody. We learnt the hard way that the majority of hot chicks on there are actually just pre-made videos on a loop with someone else typing as though they are the person on the video. There was a point where we thought we were chatting to a girl who was the definition of DTF. She was laying on her bed asking us what we wanted to see, with a very suggestive cleavage hanging out of her bra, and only one of us noticed her movements were repeating themselves. Quickly realising we were being trolled by a true wizard, we F2'd our way out of there!
My advice on chatroulette is to be sceptical of anyone who doesn't have a mic.

So in summary, if I had to break it down, Chatroulette is 70% middle-aged and sexually frustrated Turkish men, 20% teens who are looking for sexual release/validation, 8% videos of hot chicks on a loop, being monitored by a middle-aged Turkish man, and 2% normal fun people looking to have stimulating conversation with fellow internet users from around the globe.

Side note:
This week I purchased some domains for my blog and online portfolio, so this is soon to be HTTP://ZERAHAHA.COM! Just awaiting the payment to go through, but watch this space for progress. I'll also be posting all my published work at HTTP://ZERAHGALLARDO.COM, so once payment goes through for that, you are free to peruse even more of my writings.

I post a blog every Sunday, so I will hopefully see you back here next week.

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4 comments:

  1. I think I'm part of that 20% - were my actions not clear on Friday night??

    Congratulations on your domain name! You taught me this during one of your Uni assignments. Your name is your brand.

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  2. I have been following your stuff since your article came out on the MX. Good stuff, fun to read!

    with love,

    Your secret admirer!

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  3. Try tinychat its alot lets random, and u can talk to upto 12 people on cam at once. Really cool people on there.

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  4. Carlos the King of SiamAugust 29, 2012 at 12:08 PM

    I want in on this group of girls trolling men on Chatroulette thing!!!!!!!!

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