I've never used 7cupsoftea, but have used similar service such as CompassionPit, Omegle and another site I'm forgetting the name of. Most people I've talked to

I've never used 7cupsoftea, but have used similar service such as CompassionPit, Omegle and another site I'm forgetting the name of. Most people I've talked to are quite young like high schoolers to peeps in their late 20's with quarter-life crisis. People mostly have girl/boy/parents problems or general existential crisis revolving around career/romance/existential meaning. I think the appeal of the site is to relate to strangers and letting your guard down. I think there's a lot of appeal of listening to someone as it makes you relate to your own problems and step outside of yourself to realize that it's not a "me" world; and that everyone is kinda of grotesque like in that short story collection, "Winesburg, Ohio". I used to feel that way with HN and reddit /r/all, but both sites have grown so big and evolved into more commercialized niche for startup's and meme's; that they feel like high school with people putting on their in-group faces lol. I think that's the appeal of subreddits for people to go into smaller communities. Same thing with one-on-one online anonymous chats. It's the not same as talking with friends, friends may be unavailable because they're busy or with someone else or you don't want to share some details with them. It helps frame your problem from your original context in your social and family clique to try to explain it to a stranger.