What might extend your chat to more than 1 minute: Look nice. What might extend it to more than 2 minutes: look  very interested. Some of you just look like your already asleep. Eye-contact, guys, eye-contact.

More than 3 minutes: Have something better as opening than “What’s up with you!”

More than 4 minutes: be funny. Laughing makes fetters.

More than 5: Be Brad Pitt. Go for the stars!

More than 6: Not even Brad manages that.

And whatever happens: do not lose your hopes. Because yes, they may be a rare commodity as already pointed out in Toro Magazine back from before the nudist tidal chat wave hit last year, Chatroulette is still as good a place as any to start.

It’s a sunny California afternoon and this guy here is doing his tricks at the Cunningham San Jose skate park. And there you really see how skateboarding started out as surfer sport when the surf as flat. What might be new to you is that this already started in the 1940s, when surfers screwed some wheels onto boards or boxes until the first skateboards were ordered by a surf shop.

The music from Metallica also fits perfectly into this skate.surf zen clip.

No special effects, no music, no faces, no dialogue. Just two hands unfolding, refolding, lengthening, stripping, pulling, joining, crumpling, basketing, pyramiding a mass of tiny magnetic metal balls. If you don’t get what I mean by all that, just watch it here.

The beauty of it is the simplicity. It’s almost like an express mediation session of 90 seconds – though I did get anxious when they started tearing it up…

Most of them have the search options to limit the chat partners you get to talk to, but it must be a big fake. On one of that site I noticed something strandge… The categories are: sex, minimum age, maximum age, has image, last login, country, region, city, within.

You can always leave everything total blank by saying you don’t care or similar. But already here something bizarre going on. The minimum age is 16 years, but the maximum age always starts at 1 no matter what minimum age you type in?? Real bad logical error there.

A no-restrictions search says that 562 users are online which is a bit low anyhow. But then when you type in something specific like London and female and within 25 miles of London, you still have over 500 people in that search??!? It can’t be because, then I typed in Chad and some city there, and still there were over 500 people to chat to??? Well, I learned that over 500 plus over 500 makes something over 1000.

Quit them, fake!!!

You can see a statistic from WebSatchecker here that shows next to Buzzfeed and Wikipedia, Youtube is the non-chat site where most people type in any Chatroulette-related searches. www.chatroulette.com is of course number one ahead of several other chat sites – though I still think that the website we’re currently blogging on also deserves a place there.

But the main point is: Chatroulette is no longer just about you and the random stranger one on one. Too many people are doing it like crazy all over the world for it not to become an experience you record and share. If Youtube is about getting your content out there, then Chatroulette clips on youtube are about getting content out there and ALSO making people aware of the fact they’re sharing.

This is about reaching out to others on so many different levels. Hooking on to Youtube to see the recordings is about getting into the next Chatroulette level.

Is it really the point of Chatroulette to fill Youtube and other clip sites up with photos or videos? So there are a lot of people do lots of funny things on Chatroulette, Omegle etc. And I really wouldn’t want to miss out on meeting guys (and girls) like that every time I hook on there. Especially not all the girls that I get to meet – never seem to get talking to a lot at my school.

And I can sort of understand the motivation for putting the funny clips you made online if you’re the creative part of the video chat. Because after are, everybody wants to be in the show bizz. And have your friends see how super funny you are.

But to spend such a lot of time just watching the clips of other people as the writer of yesterday’s blog (Chat Guessing…) is obviously doing? I think that’s a bit of a waste of time.

Somebody set up his Chatroulette webcam to work like a mirror for others in this video clip. So what they got to see is themselves as if they were talking to themselves in a mirror. This is just such a great idea!!!

The first thing that one thinks if is that old fairytale line: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all. That’s where the wicked queen from Snow White always reassured herself of her beauty, was told that she no longer was the fairest and also eventually found out that her stepdaughter wasn’t dead at all. So, looking into a mirror is always like looking for affirmation of yourself and sometimes it gets to show you the truth – and you don’t like it.

So, does this mean Chatroulette may after all be just about looking for yourself in the wide world of the web??? More on this soon, same place.

First of all, most people in Chatroulette do it form a comfortable small place. So that already looks like a cave you retreat to in order to enjoy a Chatroulette session. And for the painters like this one called Baggerman in his clip, even the lighting fits. It’s dim and you really can’t see very much at the back of the room. Even his face is covered in shadows.

Well, and then of course there are the paintings themselves: Obviously he is trying to communicate by writing short text messages like: Say Hello. Or Youtube. But then he also draws things like cars or abstract shapes. Very into primitive art, this guy. I wonder if one day when all that survives of our civilization is the hard drive of this guy’s computer: will the aliens who discover it, think it is another Altamira?

At the end of the clip the guy grows more insane and erratic. No wonder … cave man.

It’s not very long, and it is not very in focus, nothing much gets said apart from the girls screaming. And still: over 30000 people clicked on this, so there must be something. I do have to say that the girls here ARE cute. There’s no denying that the chick factor is very high. But wouldn’t you rather have a nice chat with them than make them scream. Well. We don’t know what really happened. I mean of the guy and the girls actually had a long Chatroulette session and talked either before or after they started torturing our ear drums.

Well, whatever the Chatroulette guy had, why do so many Youtube users watch that clip? It must be about seeing girls like the type you know from school (who don’t give you the time of day) shocked and helpless in a way. It shows that those chicks are human, too.