“The experiment #1 is over now. Thanks for participating. Renewed and updated version of the website will be launched shortly.” These are the words you will be confronted with if you head over to the Chatroulette site for a chat with a human face, or any other part of the human anatomy. What does it mean? Well it means that either the site is being cleaned up (boo! hiss! or hooray! depending on your views on being bombarded by images of the male sex organ and the wilder side of human behavior), or it’s getting ready for the next stage of its evolution. Which could be what? So far it’s been a place for pranksters, artists, advertisers, impersonators, musicians, exhibitionists, the curious, and the perverse. Whatever happens next, it should be interesting.
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