{"id":2558,"date":"2010-03-12T14:36:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/copelandcommunications.wordpress.com\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2010-03-12T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:36:49","slug":"chatroulette-its-a-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/chatroulette-its-a-gamble\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatRoulette, it&#8217;s a gamble."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last post \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/copelandcommunications.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/08\/social-media-strangers\/\">Social Media Strangers<\/a>\u201d touched on a two new SM sites that revolve around randomness as a method to interactive with strangers. The more popular of the two; ChatRoulette has been the topic of quite a few conversations around here, as well as the new addiction of one of our colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>I had been struggling to find the real point of this site and its benefit. Besides being a showcase for perverts, there are lots of genuinely interested users. It\u2019s a platform that lets you be anything between yourself to your alter-ego. Gauging on the amount of puppets, drawn characters, and unique scenarios, creativity is also a large element of the production. Perhaps this isn\u2019t as lost of a cause as I originally thought.<\/p>\n<p>I came across this video (<em>below<\/em>) that does a great job of explaining things, as well as doing a few experiments to see just who uses it, and what they are looking for. It\u2019s worth sitting through the whole thing. <em>(warning: a bit of swearing in the video)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MwnCJbf7SD8&amp;feature=player_embedded]<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post \u201cSocial Media Strangers\u201d touched on a two new SM sites that revolve around randomness as a method to interactive with strangers. The more popular of the two; ChatRoulette has been the topic of quite a few conversations around here, as well as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativejuices.ca\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}