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 <[email protected]> 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
>
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