Chatroulette is a website that attracts over 500,000 visitors per day. If you’re unfamiliar with it, here’s how it works:
- You visit the Chatroulette website.
- You click ‘start a new game
- You are randomly assigned one person to chat with. At the time I was checking out Chatroulette there were 20,000 people online.
- You chat via video and text for as long as you want, and then when you’re done talking, you click ‘Next’ and move onto the next person. Of course, the person you’re chatting with can do the same too!
Obviously this website (and others like it, e.g. onlychat.com) have their dangers:
- your self-confidence could be rocked if people constantly ‘nexted’ you,
- they’re dominated by men (i.e. there’s a tendancy to be dating-focused),
- it’s open to abuse by perverts (what isn’t these days?!)
A film maker has put together a video of his experiences with Chatroulette:
chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
Those dangers aside (if indeed we can push them aside), I had an idea. Could we use Chatroulette for evangelism? We knock on peoples doors to tell them about Jesus – this is a very similar concept!
What do you think?
