Pretty much what I expected
I’d read about Omegle before. It’s a service that randomly connects you to a stranger with whom you can chat. After being reminded about it again by Los Campesinos!’s blog, I decided to give it a shot. I love meeting strangers, and though strangers on the Internet hardly count, it seemed like it might be worth a few minutes to see what happened. It went pretty much exactly how I assumed it would:
You: Hello!
Stranger: Hi !
You: Where are you?
Stranger: france
Stranger: you ?
You: I’m in San Francisco.
You: I’m hopefully coming to Paris for a month this summer.
Stranger: boy ?
You: Yes sir.
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
How many chat partners do you think this kid has to go through to before he finds an underage girl (or someone pretending to be an underage girl) who will describe her breasts to him? It seems like it could be a long wait.
Anyway, I think I’m done with that.
I lucked out. My first try I met someone in Brazil that was just about to graduate and had no idea what they were going to do with their life. They were fun to talk to, and warned me away from the death squads of Brazil. They didn’t get my “how many is a Brazilian?!” joke, though.
My next three were the moral equivilent of a guy standing on a street corner yelling “COCKS!” I haven’t been back since.
By Laen on Apr 10, 2009