Saw one of those typical interent articles the other day about “Top 25 websites for wasting time” and came across one called omegle.com. You are instantly linked to a stranger anywhere in the world to start a conversation with.
After being spoiled by the SDMB where people can carry on somewhat coherent conversations in a mature fashion I seemed to forget what the rest of the net has to put up with.
The thing must be littered with pre-teens talking in text message short hand.
I think I let it link me up with 5 different people. The gist of their converstions:
-Renaldo!#!%! he is gay
-hey u sexxy boy
-im only 13 wait dont go!!
-r u in usa :haha
ur 39 fuck that
Within 10 minutes I felt teh stupid of our worlds youth hit me in the face.
First conversation was with a guy who wanted to know “white guys spanish latino turkish asian mixed black which one u prefer for boyfriend.” I told him that I didn’t do the boyfriend thing, but was seeing a Latino guy at the moment. Apparently that was not the right answer because he immediately disconnected.
It occurred to me afterwards that he himself might have been a white Spanish Latino Turkish Asian mixed black guy. In which case I really missed out because that sounds like a hot combination.
But the second conversation was great. I spent about an hour chatting with a very nice and funny 24 year old Italian woman who was looking to improve her English (which was fine). She was glad I wasn’t a perv. We had just started talking when she said,
That totally cracked me up. The “bad bad bad animal” was a disgusting bug. But she made her peace with him and I named him Ottavio, and now everything’s cool.
I tried it, and after several “nonstarters”, I had a really decent conversation with a person in New York who is an English student. The first few wanted pictures, cyber, etc. I almost gave up first.
