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Omegle 2009-2023

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by HaZeust »

low_tech_love wrote: post #569
HaZeust wrote: post #548

This hits me particularly hard. I met relationships, mentors, peers, pupils, friends of philosophy, fellow software developers, builders, dreamers, businessmen - and everything in between - from Omegle, all in different stages of my life. I've messaged each and every one of them, just now, about the news - on the many platforms I added friends from Omegle with. Conversations on Omegle changed my politics, it changed…

Is it something from a long time ago or did you manage to do that in recent years too? Just curious.

In the last 3 months, I managed to meet at least one example for all nine types of people I gave.

Used tags: politics, constitution, trump, reddit, liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, philosophy, music, compsci, computers, socialmedia, debate, ama, business, america

(I found that these tags made for the best conversations over the years. None of them stand as an endorsement)

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

HaZeust wrote: post #548

This hits me particularly hard. I met relationships, mentors, peers, pupils, friends of philosophy, fellow software developers, builders, dreamers, businessmen - and everything in between - from Omegle, all in different stages of my life. I've messaged each and every one of them, just now, about the news - on the many platforms I added friends from Omegle with. Conversations on Omegle changed my politics, it changed…

The beauty of the internet. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by concordDance »

eru wrote: post #419
maegul wrote: post #332

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's turtles all the way down with nostalgia. And yet golden eras do occur, or so it would seem. I’m sure it’s hard to tell when you’re in or near one, which is an interesting topic in its own right, but it doesn’t mean we should dismiss outright the possibility that a passing era might just be taking something truly valuable with it.

Even a non-golden era can have something truly valuable. Btw, we are living in a golden age. The vast majority of humanity has never had it better.

True, but the rates of depression and general unhappiness in the West are definitely up from 30 years ago.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by NietTim »

shmde wrote: post #446
phendrenad2 wrote: post #371

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"He was definitely home, all the blinds were drawn" 5 minutes later, Leif is seen going from his car to his house You can't make this stuff up. Every time I see a BBC clip it's something ridiculous. There's probably a good business opportunity doing a mystery science theater 3000 version of BBC news at this point.

The guy can file a stalking and harassment case on BBC can't he ?

I was wondering about that. If someone is sitting at my doorstep for hours, no matter their intention or field of work, I'm calling the cops to have them removed

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by dumbaccount123 »

HaZeust wrote: post #548

This hits me particularly hard. I met relationships, mentors, peers, pupils, friends of philosophy, fellow software developers, builders, dreamers, businessmen - and everything in between - from Omegle, all in different stages of my life. I've messaged each and every one of them, just now, about the news - on the many platforms I added friends from Omegle with. Conversations on Omegle changed my politics, it changed…

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by [deleted] »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #416

> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery Have people always thought this (e.g. "the youth of today are lazy") or is it measurably true? I feel like it's obviously true.

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by dotancohen »

concordDance wrote: post #574
eru wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even a non-golden era can have something truly valuable. Btw, we are living in a golden age. The vast majority of humanity has never had it better.

True, but the rates of depression and general unhappiness in the West are definitely up from 30 years ago.

No, there is more awareness and they are more vocal now.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by prox »

amatecha wrote: post #520
justsid wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn’t use Omegle much, but I actually met my now wife on there. We used the text only thing where a third person suggests a topic. Must’ve talked for a good 2 hours on there before exchanging informations, I shudder thinking that even the smallest glitch could have changed my life so drastically. We met 11 years ago on the platform, a completely random fluke. And while I haven’t really used Omegle in a long time,…

No way! That's awesome. You should reach out to the creator of the site and let him know about this (if you haven't already). He'd probably be super happy to hear this story :)

Maybe its a good idea to collect a lot of these positive stories and get them up somewhere for all the peeps at Omegle to see.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by vasco »

kr0bat wrote: post #274
userbinator wrote: post #88

This brings back some amazing memories. If I remember correctly, the original inspiration for Omegle came from 4chan; or more precisely, a user thought of stretching the limits of "anonymous free speech" to realtime communications, and came up with the idea in late 2007. The PoC server for it was nothing more than "telnet to this IP" and it was sporadically advertised on 4chan for a short while. Astonishingly, Google…

God, they're complaining about newposters all the way back in 2007. Is the problem really Eternal September or is it just "kids these days"? Also Leif K-Brooks is a thoughtful person, and it bleeds into his posts I don't know why exactly I think a one on one chat system would be different from an imageboard. When one makes a post on an image or discussion board, I think one does take into account that his words are g…

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