Anonymous friendship will appear in chatroulette

Continuing a business tour of America, Andrei Ternovsky drove into the TechCrunch office for a short interview ( video MP4 ). Since in English from his speech it is difficult to understand something, let's duplicate in textual form a fragment about future plans for the development of the functional.



Andrew expressed some concern that during his acquaintance in Chatroulette, people exchange contacts: Skype nicknames or email addresses. Firstly, it is somewhat inconvenient, because there is a risk of incorrectly writing down the nickname of the person you like and then losing him forever. Secondly, after exchanging contacts, people transfer their communication to Skype and no longer use the Chatroulette service, which is not good. Thirdly, in this way people lose their anonymity, which is already very bad.



Andrew intends to add the appropriate functionality in Chatroulette, so that people who have felt mutual sympathy can contact each other at any time, without leaving the site and not losing anonymity. Something like a private chat in public chat rooms twenty years ago.



As chats showed many years ago, the guarantee of anonymity allows many people to show sincerity and show their true character, which in offline life is usually hidden behind a social mask. Thus, for some people, true friendship and even love are possible only in conditions of anonymity.