Thursday, June 07, 2007
Bit of a gap between posts there.I've been busy chatting away on stickam... the site that hosts the webcam and chatroom elsewhere on this site, and my other sites. (So yeah, check out my chatrooms if you want to waffle, I'm there quite a bit just lately.)
Initially, I found it rather daunting, with all the teens... very much like myspace, but with audio/cams, but I've gradually gotten much more into it... got a grip on the "scene".
Now all the usual net chat daftness you'd expect is present and correct, from your screaming kiddies to your lecherous old pervs... but today, I found myself feeling quite... I can't think of the word...
A chap from Africa, in a net cafe, who wanted very badly to find friends outside of his country, just handed out his phone number, willy nilly.
First thoughts would be "scammer... he wants to rob you" and that might just be true, but if it is... then he was an extremely good one, coz my feeling was "here's some poor naive guy who's gonna get himself into serious bother if he keeps that up." (I didn't take his number, nor give him mine, in case you wondered.)
Whatever the case, he didn't make any obvious play to scam me... so I was just left with this feeling of having chatted with someone who had absolutely no concept of just how cruel net culture can be.
It was quite a sad feeling.
Labels: chatrooms
Steve 1:00 AM [+]
Comments:
Sad but quite beautiful at the same time. I love that feeling.. like when you listen to a good song that can make you feel sad and happy both at the same time.. I wonder if there is a word for that.. there should be :-)
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