unexpectedly good riddance

[packbat]

So apparently Omegle only just died this year.

We don't know the full story, but it seems to have involved predators using the platform to get access to children, so, that's awful. We found out because we stumbled over our 2010 post about doing a Turing test in Omegle and went and followed the link, but apparently there's been a decade of memes on Tumblr about Omegle being a haven for predators and it took a lawsuit by one of the victims to bring it down.

So, that sure is a thing.

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[the_gneech]

I'm guessing that was a social media site? (I am so very out of the loop...)

[packbat]

The premise was that you would be randomly paired with a total stranger to have a spontaneous one-on-one chatroom conversation, neither of you knowing who the other was.

It was fun at first, but you can kind of see how this could go wrong, unfortunately.

[the_gneech]

Yeah, that has so much abusability built right into the concept.  

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On Dec 13, 2023, at 8:59 AM, packbat - DW Comment <dw_null@dreamwidth.org> wrote:



packbat replied to a comment you left in a Dreamwidth entry "unexpectedly good riddance". The comment they replied to was:

I'm guessing that was a social media site? (I am so very out of the loop...)

The reply was:

The premise was that you would be randomly paired with a total stranger to have a spontaneous one-on-one chatroom conversation, neither of you knowing who the other was.

It was fun at first, but you can kind of see how this could go wrong, unfortunately.

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