Didn’t your parents tell you not to speak to strangers?
There’s probably not much to do in Brattleboro, Vermont, the hometown of 18-year-old Omegle.com founder Leif K-Brooks. Boredom is most likely what inspired the high school senior to create the site that lets you anonymously chat with a random stranger. While the concept isn’t new (it completely gives me flashbacks to 6th grade slumber parties, staying up to 4am talking to boys in the AOL Disney chat room), it has created a lot of buzz lately and has continued to grow exponentially since it launched on March 25th.
The site is simple- with a click of the mouse you are connected to a random stranger, where you can engage most often in meaningless banter. Since it is completely anonymous, it does appear to give people the push to be slightly inappropriate but at the same time, completely hilarious. In the end, this probably won’t turn out to be the next Twitter, but if nothing else, a good place to vent.
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