To Chatroulette or Not To Chatroulette?
A new voyeuristic phenomenon with a truly explosive name is sweeping the nation: Chatroulette. The video chat service takes those chat rooms of yore to a new level, allowing random strangers to spin the digital dial and connect with another willing soul out there in the ether – sometimes with disturbing results. If you have an Internet connection and ample surfing time, you’ve probably heard about Chatroulette by now – most likely in one of the many articles depicting the disturbing things that people have seen there (people dressed as animals, boobs, people dressed as celebrities, boobs, and people dressed.. well… in nothing at all). The site, which racks up thousands of users a night, was founded by a 17-year-old high school student from Russia named Andrey Ternovskiy, according to The New York Times who conducted an e-mail interview with the boy. The wunderkind created the project for fun, using six years of coding skills gleaned from his father. He didn’t do much to promote the sit
