OK. I’ve been thinking about blogging about TOKIO HOTEL’s fan sites.. blog sites, myspace, youtube sites and comparing the responses of the writers and fans to a live audience at concerts. I think it’s pretty interesting how freaky some audiences are getting today. With this band having a pretty young audience, where there is a lot of honest response coming from them online, I would’ve loved to compare the life reaction to the online one. If you want to have an idea of how scary they are check this out: 
But apparently it’s not really what I should do. It’s not enough or too much to compare. So I started my research out new. And look what I found:
People! Check this out: omegle.com. It’s a new form of chat forum where you talk to or chat with, the strangest strangers.. A student from Canada invented this and people seem to like it a lot.
The pros: you can go online and talk about your life, problems, issues, happy times, ask people questions, exchange ideas, and so on…. with a stranger and aren’t committed to anything or anyone. You can go online and have a sort of social life and always find someone interesting and often are even exchanging ideas internationally wide.
Cons: You never know if the person talking to you is sincere or not. If the conversation you started will stop any second. You can start a conversation which is really lame and end up talking to a 13 year old kid who can’t spell or doesn’t speak English at all.
I will see if I can find more online sites like that. And would like to compare them. I’m a bit scared that I already explored too much of this site though? What do you think?Do you guys know this or anything similar?
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Omegle is awesome. My friend introduced it to me and I didn’t realize you did a post on it. I’ve talked to so many interesting people from all over the world on it. And there are a lot of people from France so I even get to practice my French language skills. Pretty sweet.
yeah its sweet but, scary at the same time..good that you can disconnect so fast though..
I never heard of this website but its really strange. Like you can’t find someone real to talk to? lol. But at the same time it is interesting as far as cultural exchange but I wonder if people really use this website positively? And I interested how you will connect this to the music industry and how can they use these websites to benefit themselves and the promote themselves?
Okay so I checked out omegle for the first time and… I have no idea what to make of it. It was kinda scary at first because of all the sex prowlers (the first 10 were looking for it).
Maybe it’s for someone who sincerely loves jokes and anonymity and pretending to be someone else, because 10 different people were mainly looking for 1) a good laugh and 2) sex.
Not that its an accurate description, but wow it really is a weird site. I look forward to hearing what else you come up with on this.
I think you are right that their are distinct pros and cons and while it is nice to have someone to talk to (especially when it seems like everyone wants to stay connected) but I have a hard time believing that this site will remain as it is for too long. I can just picture someone having a highly publicized pedophiliac experience and the rules being changed shortly there after.
Ok so last time I went on Omegle a person just posted his or her myspace site and yes I clicked on it..and listened to there what was it??? MUSIC! ha. thats how they start promoting now..even via omegle.
What is so different about Omegle and other online chats? It seems like online you are always having dialogue with strangers. Yes maybe Omegle is more direct in the fact that you are conversing with strangers…but essentially its still the same. It could be interesting if you can compare and contrast other chat sites to this one to help us gain more understanding of Omegle.
Also I think the living room concepts are a cool idea and a way for bands today to generate a fan base for a very cheap price.
This kind of reminds me of Twitter with the whole following relative strangers and their actions and whereabouts. At least here you can get to start to know someone in the chat, but do people form relationships on it, or are you meant to talk to the person once and then never again? Because once you talk to them once they are no longer a stranger. I know a lot of people go to therapy because they have some serious shit to work out, but I also know a bunch of people who see a therapist just so that they have someone to talk to that is impartial because they’re not directly tied to their life. It’s nice to get a stranger’s opinion sometime. Is this some peoples’ way of venting their problems without having to write a check every week?
Wow, i’ve never heard of this before, but this is so cool. What i love about it is that it’s COMPLETELY anonymous; every stranger you meet is called “Stranger” and there aren’t any profiles and you can’t choose whom to talk to. And i’m going to go even further than Amanda and propose that talking to strangers online while maintaining anonymity is much easier and maybe even more effective than talking to someone in person. Just look at PostSecret ( http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ ) The community forum there is pretty much group therapy.
I haven’t actually talked to a stranger yet (i chickened out), but i think i’ll play around with it some time and give you my opinions on it. Has there been any scholarly research done on this site?
I love this topic if just for the pure enjoyment I got in class watching Mushon chat. I think he was right in saying that this does cater to a need that has not been met. Maybe you could look into where the makers of omegle plan on taking their website in the future? It would be cool if you could actually get in touch with someone who works at/with omegle.
Today, people are finding it harder to meet new people. Often because people don’t get out anymore and try to stay home or limit themselves to outside physical contact. The Internet has made it possible for many of us to stay indoors and do everything over our computers. These kinds of sites are just another way to connect.
Omegle’s developer is not from Canada…he is from brattleboro, vermont.