ChatRoulette unleashes social chaos.

From all sorts of instant messaging clients like mIRC, Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger and Skype etc to Hi5, Facebook, Twitter and so on, Social networking has infected millions of users, like an expanding virus. What will they think of next?

It’s very easy now to keep all your friends together, interact with them in different levels, from chatting to video conferencing, playing games and many more. You can find a lot of new people, sort them by location, age, gender, eye color and God knows what else. You can choose which of them to add them as your friends, to get to know them better.

But how about total randomness? Exactly! - Somebody you do not know at all, about whom you will not find any written information on any profile or anything. Almost like walking up to someone on the street and start talking to them, but with a touch of geekiness and plenty of freakiness.

ChatRoulette.com is a website that matches you with random people in audio-video based chatting. It may sound interesting or quite fun for social networking addicts, but although the concept sounds good, the experience proved fairly disturbing. The fun fact is that this is total randomness, and the only rule is that there are no rules. There is no control over anything, no search or filtering, no chance to find again a normal nice person you accidentally found but lost because she clicked next bored and uninterested when she saw your face.

You find yourself into the Matrix; automatically sharing your webcam to the random person you end up with on the screen. This incredible world that has no knowledge about Rousseau’s social contract is unfortunately, a freak show. There are all sorts of people to be found: a teenage Asian girl yelling something inarticulate, some emo guy painting his fingernails, a 3-4 years old kid sticking his drawings into the camera, a guy playing a guitar (first nice thing to find here), some other teen girl having an endless cell phone conversation. To one’s horror, among that there are also to find weird bald guys staring at you, drunken people and yes, free live porn any many other things you wish you hadn’t seen.

Chat roulette is total chaos, and sends the Internet back to its dark ages. If you have the courage to adventure there, beware, there be monsters!