Many of you are already aware of Chatroulette.com and omegle.com as sites
designed for visitors to chat with strangers, and sites we probably want
to block at our schools. A writer of a recent article about Chatroulette=
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which is random video chats with strangers, said that after spending a fe=
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hours on Chatroulette he estimated 1 in 5 video chats were of men who wer=
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exposing themselves.=20
I wanted to let you know that two similar Chatroulette-wannabe's have jus=
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appeared recently and I'm sure there will be more.
http://next.tinychat.com/
Similar to Chatroulette, you can be thrown into a room with strangers and
conduct video chats with random people. When you tire of a person,you can
simple move onto the next available user in TinyChat=92s =93Lobby=94.
http://www.popjam.com/
PopJam also released a Chatroulette-like platform, except that is uses
Facebook Connect to randomly send you into a Facebook IM chat with a tota=
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stranger.
Never a dull moment,
Doug
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Director of Technology
Brookwood School
Manchester, MA 01944
http://www.Brookwood.edu
(978) 526-4500 X6233
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