I haven't tried it, but a number of students in my classes have been talking about it recently. A few were people proclaiming its coolness, a few were significant-others complaining of its addictiveness (and stupidness). Based on their experiences, I recommend drinking five to six beers, then trying again.
It also seems to be more fun to do as a group of people - presumably multiple people in the me place on different computers, so you can harass each other, commiserate, enjoy each other's confusions, laugh when someone else gets exposed at, etc. Eric On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 09:39 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I had a much higher percentage of weenie waggers in my sample. About the same number of old geeks though. You looked good, BTW! > > >>On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Steve Smith <<#>> wrote: > > > > > >> >OK... so I gave up 30 minutes of my life that (proverbially) I will >never get back. > > >It consisted roughly of: > > > >20% dark screens with no response > 10% muted screens with no response > 5% cams aimed at a wall with no response > 30% young men clicking through as fast as they can? > 10% groups of 2 or more, mostly girls, giggling > 10% (young?) men exposing themselves > 2 old geeks like me, one in a bad suit > > > > >I was only able to engage about 3 folks in a (brief) text exchange. > >My best way of keeping a "partner"'s attention was to put my hand > >in the camera and make lots of strange gestures that filled the >screen... > >3 or 4 responded with their own hand gestures, usually resorting to > >the truly most obvious one as they clicked on down the line. 10 secs >max. > > >So far I see no redeeming qualities. I hear it is addictive... I'll >get back to you on that. > > >Anyone else have their own report on SurrealRoulette? > > > Steve > >> >> >>Fascinating social network evolution: > > > > ><http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html> > > > > ><http://chatroulette.com/> > > > > >--Doug > > >-- > >Doug Roberts ><#> ><#> > >505-455-7333 - Office > >505-670-8195 - Cell > > > > >
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