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Oh, The Humanity: My Chatroulette Experience
- dminor 17y agoI figure by the end of the month most of the people on Chatroulette will be reporters doing stories about Chatroulette.
- there 17y agoi'm curious why anyone voted this up. is it not exactly like every other chatroulette post on here in the past few days? someone tries out the site, sees a bunch of dicks, and posts screenshots. where's the interview with the site creator or the technical information about its infrastructure or anything else hacker news-related?
- vaksel 17y agoI just submitted(so 1 vote) to see if all my submissions were getting banned or just the ones from my blog.
- ianbishop 17y agoI guess I just don't have the narcism necessary to understand any tech reporter or otherwise would think anyone one would be interested in reading an entire article of them spending the morning on a social media website. I don't think I've ever seen anyone write an article on how they sat on Facebook all Saturday night and how great it was. I could understand if something hilarious or eventful came from it - but even then I would post it to my twitter or somewhere it would be relevant, not make it an article for my job.
- swolchok 17y agoFun fact: chatroulette exposes to other chatroulette users 1) your IP address 2) the fact that you're running this random-ass network-exposed Flash app. IP addresses are geolocatable, so it's not so anonymous. Would be cool to have a helper app that geolocates the user's IP and shows you where they're from. (I found this out in 5 minutes using WireShark.)