The other day we were watching the South Park episode about Facebook/ Chat Roullette. We love South Park because of how they hit on current events and of course they went all out this time. Basically the episode was about Stan finally joining Facebook.
I have never really been a fan of myspace, facebook or any "social networking!" Mainly because i hate when people from grade school or people that I generally have no interest in becoming friends with again come out of the woodworks. Another reason I do not like these sites is because many of the people are inappropriate.
I had NO idea what Chat Roulette was, never heard of it, before this South Park episode. For those of you who are\ were clueless Chat Roulette is exactly what it sounds like. A person signs on, with a webcam, and then randomly paired with others from all over the world. So incredibly simple and cool but of course the idea is exploited and turns bad. On Chat Room Roulette if you are paired with someone you do not like you just hit next and someone else comes on. Technically you are never supposed to end up with the same person.
On South Park the main characters turn to Chat Roulette to find Stan friends for Facebook. On the episode they sign on and Cartman starts going through friends and they keep coming across guys ummmm well, guys being guys. The characters on South Park keep clicking next, next, next, next and finally come across a normal person that just wants to chat.
The idea of Chat Roulette is to meet people at random "as friends." Of course something like this turns bad and what you really find is random people trying to get off. I did not think much of Chat Roulette after we watched the South Park episode until we got to Abilene when Ashleigh randomly brought it up. We started laughing because of South Park but we did not say a word to here about the episode and she told us that what you see is guys trying to or actually getting off! From what i have heard there is probably a 1/10 chance off finding one person that actually wants to chat and be friends compared to people trying to get off.
Another great idea that has turned bad. Why do people look to sites like this instead of meeting real people and have "interaction" in person? And WHY do these people constantly ruin a great concept? At the very least whoever runs chatroulette.com should break the site up so that people looking to "get off" can log into one section and people wanting to meet/ make friends can log into another!
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