I was browsing through Tech news articles on Google when I cam across a very interesting piece from the Washington Post about the popularity of the relatively new chat website called ChatRoulette. I have never used the site, nor do I really plan on ever checking it out, but I found the information in the article to be very intriguing.

ChatRoulette is a video chat website which randomly matches people together. Once you get bored or weirded out by the person you are talking to, you click a button to me matched with someone new, hence the “roulette” part of the site’s name.

The site, which has an average chat time of 2.8 minutes per person per session, quadrupled in visitors from 944,000 in January to almost 4 Million in February. Many people believe this to be due to the fact that it is a relatively new site which is generating a lot of curiosity, but either way, there seem to be a lot of people looking for someone to talk to.

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