Chatroulette Overview
We pair random people from around the world together! Anonymous chat with strangers.
Chatroulette.com — Video Chatting Pioneer
The site has been created in late 2009 by a genius schoolboy from Moscow. What’s unique about this project is that though the idea itself is simple, but it shoot out like a cannon, after mass media had mentioned it a few times. There’s no opportunity to choose your chat partner: it’s totally random. People sign in to the site from all over the world, and all this started even before XXX webcam sites. It’s natural that lots of them, especially men, tried using the site to have some sexual fun. Those who’re more discreet try to hook up with one of the few ladies who hang out there (it’s true, there are more male users at the site, I guess it’s because the administration makes no attempts to regulate the site’s population).
How Does It Look From the Inside?
Simple and gorgeous. Remember, the site has been made by a schoolboy, and it shows. If you prefer lights and whistles rather than minimalistic black-and-white design, this site will disappoint you. But as I said, simplicity is the site’s main feature, and that’s why it’d be weird to expect it to have a fancy design.
Looking for a partner to chat isn’t the most exciting part of it all, but it’s still cool, as you see all those people where they dwell, and you see them, well, the way they are. Even those who’re showing off — they are so real! It’s truly amazing!
I wish they didn’t turn me off so often, though. Most of my sessions lasted no longer than 3 seconds. And most of them were guys jerking off. They just stop, realize that I’m not a hot girl with her legs apart and they skip my cam. This is not what I regret: normal people without their dicks in their hands, who seem quite interesting or amusing, skip you as well.
Chatting and Having Fun
It’s really exciting when you find an interesting, open-minded person by random. It’s like finding a treasure in a swamp. As I said, girls are few here, and not all of them are looking for sexual kind of fun, but it’s still possible to run into a horny gal who’s there to have some naughty time. I’ve found a couple of chicks like that during last week as I was exploring Chatroulette. They never shared their real location and all those talks about meeting each other in real life are just talks. But maybe you’ll be luckier than I was.
Also, I’ve found a couple of gay guys who offered me, um, their kind of fun. As I’m not gay I refused, but that means that there are lots of gay guys looking for cyber-sex with random people there. But Chatroulette isn’t only about sex. It’s so famous among people of all ages that even celebrities join it to have fun from time to time. I’ve seen some pictures on reddit that prove Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Lopez, Snoop Dogg and other celebs like to Chat Roulette from time to time.
More Features?
Apart from talking, you can draw in the chat window. It’s a bit weird, I wonder whose idea was this?! Most of people draw stupid obscene pics, but I met a couple of guys and a girl who managed to create truly fascinating pics.
The interface is customizable. You can change font size, turn audio on and off, share personal information in your profile. By the way, registration is necessary, but it’s free and doesn’t demand any personal information. The only paid feature there is at Chat Roulette is Premium tokens. This feature allows you to connect to users of a specific gender. There are two kinds of tokens: $10 token that grants 100 premium connections and $50 token that allows 500 premium connections. That’s it: life is hard and chat roulette, no premium accounts, no subscriptions just expensive tokens.
Conclusion
This site feels like you went back in time and popped up in the end of 2009. The absence of design, general simplicity of the idea itself and chat — no modern social network or camsite looks like that these days. And still it’s popular — the fun never stops here. Although if you want to use this site for sexual sort of fun only, I’d suggest you use one of the adult webcam sites or a dating platform. Chatroulette is for here-and-now kind of virtual fun, it’s not a sex site at all!
